Monday, February 05, 2007

Arrivals and Departures

I picked the Boy up at 4:30 the other day - almost an hour earlier than usual. My class ends at 4pm, and there's no way I was going to go back to the office just so that I could pretend to work. Apparently, an early departure was not in the Boy's plan. Everyone was having their snack, and they looked at me like I was an alien. I had to sit there while the Boy ate multiple crackers, and kept asking for more. The new kid deposited his half-masticated banana in my hand and proceeded to climb on my new coat with his unwashed banana-hands. (Yum! Who are you again, kid??). Then the Boy would simply NOT put on his winter gear. He kept standing, sitting, walking, sleeping and performing the "dead fish" move on me. It took half an hour (!!!) to get out of the damn daycare. Bad times.


This morning, I had to walk to daycare in the minus-gazillion-with-the windchill weather. Mr Earth was conducting interviews in Waterloo, so the Boy and I had to make do with the stroller for transportation. The Boy helped put on his "po-pants" (snowpants, for those unused to toddler-speak) by lying back. He actually allowed me dress him in full winter regalia, hat, scarf, mittens (!!!), and boots. The only whisper of complaint was that he wanted to put on the boots before the snowpants. I got him into the stroller and out the door in record time. I was even allowed to use the heretofore forbidden windshield and plush Winnie blanket. Have I mentioned how ridiculously cold it was today? By the time we arrived at the daycare, the windshield was frozen in place. The Boy's little voice, buried under many layers, piped up "I stuck!". I couldn't remove the windshield, so I tried to get him to duck under it. That didn't work, but he spontaneously pulled the "dead fish" move, and slid out from under it. I had never appreciated the versatility of that move until today. Good times.

8 comments:

Beck said...

Ah, the good ol' dead fish manouver. WE call that "going boneless", ala "Knuffle Bunny" by Mo Williams. I never thought that it would have a practical life application.

Beck said...

Wow, it's me AGAIN! I sent you an email this morning and a recipe this afternoon.

NotSoSage said...

Oh, we've had quite a few of those 'dead fish' moves pulled on us over the last few weeks at daycare. Why o why?

Good thing he was so compliant on a day when it was needed so desperately.

NoodleMonkey said...

After months and months of elation and shouts of "Mamma, Mamma!" when I picked up the Monkey at the gym daycare, now she looks at me like "Why do you insist on interrupting my good time?!" It sucks.

Kyla said...

I am glad to know it had a real world application other than making me crazy! *lol* It was kind of him to be so cooperative on a day that needed it!

Mimi said...

We don't get the 'dead fish' yet, but we do get the 'fish flop' which is where Miss Baby bucks her whole body in her swaddle, like a fish on the bottom of the boat. Weird.

'I stuck' made me laugh. Out loud.

Giggle.

kittenpie said...

It IS wicked out. We walk to daycare every morning, and on topof her winter gear she often gets a nice warm blankie, but on Monday, it was so bad I wrapped her in my lap duvet! We also left half an hour early so we could go to the "hot chocolate store" across the street from daycare and get a nice warmup beverage before she had to go in. Mmm, sweet reward.

(ps - if he's weird about the boots, I've seen some moms tuck the boots into the bottom of the snowpants with the elastic around them, then get the kid to stick his feet right in the boots, and THEN pull up the pants. Which may get around the boots-first business, especially if you point out that that's how firemen do it!)

NotSoSage said...

Hey there! Just letting you know that you've been tagged for a meme. I hope that's okay!

Ew, my word verification word is puust. I don't know what that is, but I'm not really inclined to find out.