What a morning! I had the troops outside and we were on our way to the school. Just a couple houses away from ours, one of Ethan’s training wheels popped off. He was fine until he noticed it was gone, then he fell over. He was freaking out. I was trying to tell him that I know he can ride the bike without the training wheels. He kept going after it popped off. He was fine until he looked back and saw it gone. He only fell off about 4-5 times on the way to the school, which isn’t very much. He got mad at me for trying tell him that he can ride without it. He kept turning around and telling me not to say a word. 🙁 By the time that we got in front of the school Ethan’s friend Jacob had caught up with us. He could see that Ethan was upset, and so sweetly asked him what was wrong. So Ethan explained the situation, and Jacob says “I can ride without training wheels, can’t you?” like he had never even noticed that Ethan’s bike still has training wheels on it. He was very caring and helped Ethan walk his bike to the bike racks at the back of the school. I’m so glad Ethan has a friend that cares about him.
Then we continued to the kindergarten yard. Jeremy and Dinah like to play while we wait for the bell to ring. Once the bell rings Tyra lines up and I start rounding the others up. Jeremy came to the stroller, but I had to go get Dinah. So I picked her up and put her in the stroller and we headed home. We get all the way home, and I pull Dinah out of the stroller, and notice that she has no shoes on her feet. Great she kicked them off somewhere between here and the school. Ok load the stroller back up and back down the street we go. We get to the end of our street and still no sign of her shoes. Ok I don’t let her play on the playground without shoes, I’m SURE she had them on. So we continue on our way towards the school looking for them. We get to the front of the school and I’m wondering if someone had picked them up and taken them to the office, but we’ll just go look in the kindergarten yard first. Sigh, there they were. Right where the stroller had been when I put Dinah in it. She kicked her shoes off right then and there, because she was mad that I took her off the playground and put her in the stroller. Had I tripped on them I would have noticed them before getting out of the kindergarten yard. But I didn’t trip on them, and I don’t generally watch the ground as I walk so I didn’t even see them there, until we went all the way home, and had to go all the way back.
It’s been a crazy morning.
