Brags 11/15

[akafred]

Go!

[akafred]

This won't sound like a brag but is. Last night I stopped at Sonic before picking Charlotte up. I have been sick and did not feel like cooking, and I left a couple minutes early and got food before getting her. I got her a mini shake as a treat.

When I got to the school, the aftercare teacher was clearly upset, and of course talking to C. Meanwhile another mom stood and watched (I HATE that, by the way; the last thing anyone needs in that moment is an audience. Also her son taught my daughter the F word so I'm not digging the condescending looks coming my way). It seems that Charlotte found a medicine dropper with green liquid inside. As the aftercare teacher was taking the bottle and asking where she found it, my little cherub snatched it from her hand and quickly squirted the liquid in her mouth. Sigh. Thankfully it was just water with food coloring, but what a turd. And her attitude sucked; she was rude to Miss E and to me. As I was trying to talk to her about it on the way out, she said, "I've already been talked to, duh!" What a turd.

And remember, I was sick. So I popped that shake out of her cup holder real quick. That was probably (definitely) the wrong way to handle it, but frankly I was just at the end of my rope and feverish etc. Char starts whining and I just firmly told her to shut her mouth and eat her sandwich.

She cried a little in the back seat. She did not, however, throw a fit. She did not scream as loud as possible. She did not throw anything, or damage anything. She did not tell me she hates me or say anything nasty about adoption. She didn't kick my seat. She just cried a little. About 5 miles down the road, I asked if she was ready to talk. She said she didn't know she wasn't ready. I reminded her that when I tried to talk to her she said she'd already been talked to (duh) and she apologized. We had a great talk about how she was feeling when she did it (she "went a little kookoo and wanted to break a rule"), and how that made Miss E feel, how I felt. We talked about how disrespectful it was to Miss E to take it away and the way she used her words. We talked about how important it is to be respectful because it is Miss E's job to keep her safe. Etc etc etc.

A year ago, this would have gone SO differently!

[numbbears]

Hope you start feeling better soon akafred.

[numbbears]

DS had his first dentist appointment. I was in clinicals so DH had to take him alone. I was expecting to get a call that it was a complete disaster, but it went really well. He actually opened his mouth and let the dentist clean his teeth. The only thing they couldn't do was the xray, but I didn't even expect him to open his mouth.

[mrsbuttinski]

Feel better akafred,

DS got a 100% on a paper this week.

[macchiatto]

Leo & Oliver were two out of only five second-graders in their whole school (4 classes per grade) to get into the gifted and talented program this fall! Leo (who is *so* our little absent-minded professor) absolutely loves it so far. It's a pull-out one day a week; they've met about 3 or 4 times so far.

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DD had her 6 year old well check on Thursday and for the first time ever, she answered the doctor directly instead of talking to me and insisting I relay the message. She even was a reliable report for her hearing check. All previous tests have required a second try because she wouldn't talk to the nurse or raise her hand.

ETA: And she maintained what is hopefully her new weight curve, ON the chart. 13th percentile at 5 and 10th at 6. She hadn't been on the chart since infanthood until she hit 5. We were worried she had dropped off a bunch b/c she stopped eating for the first 6 weeks of kindergarten.

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Oh, one more. I babysat my 19 month old niece yesterday and DS was engaged and helpful with her. I m pretending it was because he enjoys her and not that I suspect he recognized she would idolize him.