Feb 20th 2012

Feb 20^th 2012 Wednesday

I took Samantha to playgroup today. Amy first told me about this playgroup through Lenawee’s Child a few years back. We would take Ethan, Samantha and Savannah. Over the years it has gotten a little busier but this year it has become out of control. Just today I saw 4 new people. Paige’s friend Riley Benjamin’s mom Michelle is the Program leader. She’s a really nice woman and I enjoy talking with her while there. It’s getting harder to go though because it is just too crazy. They have it where the gymnastics teams meet in a large gymnasium. Most of the floor has mats covering it and a long trampoline. Samantha has a lot of fun but because of how busy it is now there is a lot of fighting over toys and kids have  a hard time understanding taking turns. Samantha is one of the oldest kids there and there are a lot of new Mom’s so sometimes I’ll notice that Sam will go to play with a little one and the Mom’s get rrreeeallllyyyy over protective and I just want to laugh. I saw this thing floating around facebook recently that said something along the lines of, “1^st kid eat dirt: call the doctor in a complete panic,  2^nd child eats dirt: wash out their mouth, 3^rd kid eats dirt:  figure you don’t need to give them lunch.” I was so overprotective of Paige when I had her. If she dropped her pacifier I would almost just throw it away because I was worried about Germs. Then Ethan came along and I would just rinse it off in the sink and give it back to him. But with Samantha I would just pick it up, wipe the dirt off, put it in my mouth and suck anything else off of it and give it to her! HAHA! Poor child. You just learn that you don’t have to be so overprotective and weird about things. Today while at playgroup she had a little girl come up to her and take a doll and Samantha was trying to get it back when she fell and twisted her ankle.  She was fine after an hour of laying on the couch,up and running around again. I’ll have to decide if I want to take a small break for going, or maybe just go for a little while.

Paige had her first play rehearsal tonight. She had a read through a few weeks ago and then they kept canceling rehearsals between now and then. They had a calendar up online and it said that there was a full cast rehearsal on Monday so I drove her over there and we waited. Two other parents arrived with their kids and when the Director came out she said that they didn’t need the kids. All of us were a tad bit annoyed. We mentioned that it said on the calendar that it was full cast and she just said that she worded it funny and that the kids weren’t needed till tonight (wed feb 20^th). Paige had a lot of fun. I was going to just sit in the hallway but there were about 15 kids and all their parents left so I drove over to the library (which is almost across the street from the middle school where they are rehearsing.) for an hour. Her rehearsal is from 7-830 for now  but the Library is only open till 8 so for the last half hour I sat and waited for her in the car parked right outside of the door. Then I went in a got her. She was humming  the whole way home. She said that now she is excited about being in it. Let’s see how she feels after a few more weeks when they start rehearsing 5 nights a week. Ha!