Traumatizing Experience 7/27/10

The boyfriend thought that I should blog about a traumatic experience I had yesterday at work... so I am.

Warning: this story is about poop.

So it was about 5:50 pm at the daycare, parents were coming to get their kids... I have about 10 2 and 3 year olds running around. I spot Brody (the oldest child that is still NOT potty trained) squatting in home center and making the "poop" face. he immediately stands up and yells at me, "I'm poopy!!"

Now, Brody has been 3 since April... and when you automatically know that you are poopy.. you should be potty trained.. or in the process of potty training.

So I say to Brody, "Brody... next time you have to poop.. come tell me and we will sit on the potty." I take him to the changing table, get my gloves on... and discover that there is in fact no poop.

"Brody you need to sit on the potty."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
he is screaming and crying for about 5 minutes (diaper off and pants around the ankles) and standing up about a foot away from the toilet and refusing to sit down on the potty. I am doing everything I can think of to calm him down (parents are coming to get their kids for crying out loud!) offering him a sticker, a cookie, ANYTHING if he can just sit on the potty and TRY to poop for about 2 minutes.

So the worst part of it all happens... as he is screaming, he sticks his hand behind his booty, and a second later pulls out his finger.. and there is poop on it. gross. Therefore he started screaming even more. poop is coming out WHILST he is standing up... I am like, "uhmmm BRODY sit on the potty!" he is still refusing, so I practically force him to sit on the toilet.. in the process... the poop on his finger gets on my arm... sick sick sick.

once he was sitting down though.. it was all over... he was finished crying... I washed my arm.. put new gloves on...fixed him up, and still gave the kid a cookie for pooping in the potty.

And of course his mother showed up 5 minutes later. I obviously told her the whole story... and when she told him how proud she was of him for pooping on the potty, he smiled... and then holds up his finger and says, "I pooped on my finger." HAHAHAHA so disgusting.

Thank goodness my last day of work is on August 12th! I am so over diapering and potty training!!! Ive done enough to have had 2 kids of my own by now!!!!

Locks of Love again.

I cut off 10 inches of hair on Saturday to donate to Locks of Love. After the cut was finished my hair is about 11-12 inches shorter. its still brushes my shoulders though so it's not too short. I did the locks of love thing in November of 2007.. it has taken me almost 3 years to grow it out again. So all together I have donated 22 inches of hair!!! that's crazy.


Im not really fond of my hair cut. my hair is so thick that it doesn't do well short. The body in my hair just kind of poofs out and I can't straighten it to control it or anything. not to mention that it looks crazy uneven all over the place... hopefully it will look better in a couple of weeks once I'm used to it... and by the time graduation rolls around it will be a bit longer, and the weight can hopefully hold it down.

My hair dresser does really great high lights.. but she never really cuts my hair how I want it. Im afraid to hurt her feelings if I start going somewhere else. My gran already stopped going to her after being a client for 20 something years... and she was all pissed about it. its a tough situation. but I am rarely happy after getting my hair cut by her.. she just does great highlights.. oh and she's cheaper than anyone else I would go to. uhg.

It is nice to have a pound of hair removed from my head. no more head aches. and my short ponytail is so cute! at least I can rock a ponytail for a couple of months!

Emotional Tsunami!

oh my goodness I just cried over an accumulation of EVERYTHING!

first off.. my mom just came up to Denton and helped me pack up my belongings from the kitchen in my apartment. that was kind of sad looking at it half bare. so I'm sad about moving.

then I checked my e-mail and had one from my Frisco coordinator. I'm starting student teaching in 2 1/2 weeks. Great job on getting notice for that... If I hadnt called to find out which elementary school I was placed at.. i would not have known that information until yesterday.. when i got an email from UNT telling me where i was. Today they tell to be ready to go to the new teacher inservice on August 13th, start my PDS on August 16th, and its non stop until I graduate. then I need to find a job, find ANOTHER apartment where ever the new job may be... and then go all over again.

Im just kind of sad about leaving my comfortable college lifestyle and moving into adulthood... this sucks. I was hoping for a small break in between quitting my job at CCY and starting Student Teaching. I wanted to settle into Frisco, maybe take a trip down to Houston... now I cant! and on top of it all, I need to sign up and STUDY to take my two certification tests!!!

the main thing i think I am sad about is MY BROTHER GOING TO COLLEGE! I'm getting all misty just sitting here typing about it and narrating my blog in my head. Since Im starting student teaching so early, I cant go help Ryan move in! I was really looking forward to it, and I was going to go spend the night at home on his last night home and i cant even do that! Im starting to feel homesick living an extra 15 minutes further away.. even though I havent moved there yet...

I guess if I am really busy it will go by quickly.... uhg. now im getting sad about quitting my current job. i need to stop thinking about all of this.

Too Legit to Quit.

Well summer school is over and I have officially crossed off all of the classes I had to take on the list I was given at orientation in 2007! all that is left is student teaching! no more online quizzes, no more tests to study for (well except for my certification tests!), no more papers to write!!! I get to be in the classroom working with kids, and working on things that I will actually be teaching with! I am so excited!!! I also got A's in both of my classes! that should boost the GPA a bit!

The next thing (that I have heard of) is that I go to an informational meeting at UNT on August 18th. That gives me a solid 6 weeks of summer time! I am going to work until that time comes... it is bitter sweet thinking about leaving the courtyard... I am attached to a lot of those kids, and I really like the people I work with, but it gets kind of old when you change 50 diapers a day, wipe noses, and tie shoes over and over and over again...