Notes

A  few noteworthy things to mention:

1) I got paid!  I thought I would have to wait longer, since I signed something about not getting paid for 4 weeks (since the company doesn't want to do paper checks) but I got a paper check anyway.  So, I got paid.  Now to figure how much will be left over after bills so I can by some new clothes to wear to work.  Or I could do some laundry.  I should probably do laundry.

2) I worked with the school age (or 5) kids yesterday and really enjoyed it.  Mostly because there weren't that many of them, and I played with legos with some of them.  It was just at the end of the day, since they are not there long.  Today I worked with the combined older class (so kids above 3 probably) for about an hour, which was okay as well.

3) Emily got a horrible diaper rash (if you don't want to hear about graphic details, don't read on).  We are talking weird sores outside her diaper area, on her thighs, in addition to diaper rash in the standard areas.  A few days earlier, she had some scratches on her neck (her fingernails were long, so I thought she had just scratched herself), but she also had what could have been a bug bite.  The daycare thinks the horrible diaper rash and her neck are related.

I think she just has a horrible diaper rash because she hasn't been getting powdered, which is what we do at home, but we didn't fill out the paperwork for her to have it done at daycare.

Now the paperwork is filled out, and hopefully the daycare workers will remember to apply it.  Although, as a daycare worker, it is easy to remember diaper rash cream or powder when the child has a horrible rash.  And, Dan says they all seemed concerned that she had the rash.

New Job

So, I got a job.  Or should I say, another job, since I am still Emily's Mom and a house-wifey, which has been my job for the past year.  Which is a full time job.

So, my new job is working at a daycare, Kindercare.  (They are a national company, perhaps you have seen their red roofed towers?)  I should be teaching the 3 year olds.  I go in tomorrow for "a few hours."

In related news, Emily started at a daycare today, at a Kindercare about 4 miles from where I will be working.  (Since I get a 50% discount, and since the center where I will be working did not have space for Emily.)  Dan and I went together to drop her off.  After leaving her with her teaching, we turned in paperwork and talked to the director (who gave us the first two days free!) and then left.  I dropped Dan off at work, and then had about 3 1/2 hours to kill before I was supposed to go back to get Emily.

So I went shopping.  First I went to DSW and found some shoes to wear to my new job, since I will be on my feet all day, and my old tennis shoes are dirty and starting to fall apart, and I was not sure if they would pass muster.  So, I got new shoes.  I found some on clearance--white Adidas with purple stripes.  Yea for purple! and for sales!  Then I went to the mall and tried to have fun.  I did look at baby clothes.  And shopping with Emily is WAY more fun.

Emily enjoyed daycare, but did not nap, perhaps because she fell asleep on the way to the daycare (which is only about 20 minutes from our house, so she did not nap long) and perhaps because she is not a good napper.  So she didn't nap, but she didn't cry, either.  Her teacher said she spent all of nap time talking.  And when the teacher said something to her, she turned around and said "what?"

When I got there, she was walking around with all the other little kids.  She smiled at me, and then came over, happy as can be.  I picked her up, and then set her down so I could put her coat on.  Instant tears.  Once I picked her up again, she was fine (but the little boy who realized we were leaving and he wasn't, was not fine).  Out we went to the car, and I set her down next to the car in the parking lot, since my keys were buried in my purse.  I was watching Emily to make sure she didn't take off, and then she sat down.  In the mud puddle.  She didn't like that.

But she did like running around Daddy's office after I changed her clothes.