Tootie

You may wonder why I titled this blog "Tootie", well I have a story to explain it. As you know I am working with 3 year olds and it's never boring. There is always drama, crying, yelling, snot, coughing, and the occasional bathroom accident. I was watching the kids on the playground and the other teacher I work with had gone to use the restroom. I was sitting with the kindergarten teachers when a little girl walked up. We will call her A.... A is standing there doing what I call the "potty dance" and I ask what she needs and she replies "I have to make a stinky"... Me: Ok, well go to the bathroom! A: But I have to make a stinky!!! Me: Ok A go to the bathroom then. A: BUT! I have to make a stinky and my mom still wipes my tootie!!! Every teacher around me busted out laughing. Laughing at her and at me because I am sure my face was priceless. I immediately think "I did not sign up for this!!!!" I can handle changing a diaper for a baby.. it's really no problem. It can make me gag every once in a while, but I can handle it. My best friends son, Grayson, is a child that I would do anything for.. I was around him from the day he was born (and I mean I was there when he took his first breath of air) so anytime I was babysitting him and something happened I was fine and it didn't gross me out. As I've been told a million times, when it's your own child it doesn't matter and Grayson is as close as it comes for now. But a 3 or she may be 4 by now child that I don't really know wants me to wipe their butt, I don't think I could handle that. Luckily my coworker walks out onto the playground just in time! We explain the situation and she says well I am so sorry but they are suppose to be able to do that for themselves when they come to school. So we sent A to the bathroom to make her stinky by herself. I'm not sure if Mrs. C checked on her or not, but that's my tootie story!

Josh made it to Orlando, however he wasn't a happy camper by the time he made it to the hotel. I was nervous about him going by himself and it turns out I was correct in feeling that way. He let the gas light come on because he thought his exit was coming up soon and he didn't want to get off and pay a toll (can we say cheap?). Well let me just say if I had been with him we never would've let the gas light come on. That's just not smart.. and you're probably thinking he ran out of gas.. well not quite. He decided he had to get off and get gas so as he was exiting he had to pay a 25 cent toll. Now I know exactly how Josh drives and he doesn't like to slow down. If he thinks a light is about to turn green he will keep that car going as if you are about to run through the light. He rolls through stop signs and I could keep going on and on.. Anyway so he is rolling through a toll booth and I know without him telling me he was not going as slow as he should have been because the next part of this story wouldn't of happened. He goes to throw a quarter into the bucket at the booth and misses the bucket, yet he goes right through the toll booth because he is traveling so fast. The alarm goes off signaling that he didn't pay the toll. So we will be receiving a fine for that in our mailbox. And it's mailed to the person who the car is registered too. I'm not even in that state and I am getting a fine! He's lucky it doesn't go on my record because I would not be a very happy person! After he gets gas he couldn't find his exit and ended up paying several tolls getting on and off the interstate. Finally he found his way.. he wasn't too happy, but at least he made it there safely.

I got an exercise bike on Sunday. Josh's company pays up to $200 for health stuff, so his fiscal year is ending in March and we decided to take advantage of his benefits. As you know I name all my stuff, so her name is Jillian as in Jillian Michaels. I worked out Sunday and Monday and yesterday I could barely pedal when the resistance went up... My legs and knees were hurting! I'm thinking today I may only be able to do zumba and then ride Jillian on a light workout. I've gotta take it slow at first! Now I made a comment about being cheap when I was talking about the toll booth.. and now I have another example of that. Jillian is iPod compatible and also has a fan that is run by batteries. Well as I was doing my workout on Sunday I plugged in my iPod and Josh starts complaining about using the batteries and I said I won't use it a lot, but he was watching football and that wasn't inspiring me to pedal, so I wanted to listen to something to motivate me. So he goes back to little drawer of cables and chargers, etc... And plugs in this charger to my bike.. it makes the iPod turn off.. so of course he has to try and figure it out .. I finish my workout and he starts plugging things in and yady ya... I'm not paying him any attention and then he says I think I broke it. "What!? How did you do that!!" He plugged in the charger and it started smoking and after that happened the iPod wouldn't work at all. I seriously had the bike 2 hours and he already broke it. He has this tendency to break anything that I get that's new. Needless to say I wasn't too happy and he said he wasn't going to take the bike apart and take it back because it was too much work. Finally he decides he can't fix it and calls Walmart and works out a deal with them. He took the part he broke back and they let him get a new one, but he had to go through the box and then put it back the right way. He also had to go to the southside Walmart which is like 20 minutes from us. So he probably spent more money driving around than a pack of batteries would have cost us. The reason he broke the iPod connection is because he plugged in 12 volts with that charger when it could only handle 6! Way to go Josh! lol All because he didn't want to have to worry about buying more batteries. Luckily it's fixed and works just great!