Things around my workplace are different today. I'm minus one sweet little two year old boy. He is home with Mom & Dad and new baby sister today. Mom had her baby last Thursday. She was at work that day but decided to go home with her son at 4:30. She had the baby at 7:50.
It is giving me a chance to get to know my sweet little girl a bit better. I usually don't have the chance to be one-on-one with her, but for the next eight weeks that's exactly how it will be. She just turned one on Friday, so we had a birthday party for her last week before the boy left.
Today we "walked" (the holding onto fingers stage of it anyway) all around the clubhouse, including climbing up the stairs; went for a stroller walk all around the grounds. When we came back inside, I tried her with crayons and she did make a pretty good scribble picture! At 12 months just being able to make marks on paper with crayons is pretty good! At lunch, she ate half of her applesauce by herself with her spoon, a new trick for her with me.
All morning, she'd mention the boy's name every so often. I think she misses him. Reality though, by the time he comes back (with his sister) in June, she may not remember who he is at first. We'll see.
And with just one sleeper in the nap room, much quieter and she has already slept an hour and a half.
Today starts my eight week adventure of taking over some of the maternity leave mom's extra duties. I'm disappointed (in a way) that most of what I'll be doing involves data entry and other work rather than working with the kids. But I have some evening commitments I just can't get out of right away (Awana and Thursday night meetings) and that's when the kids groups meet. So I understand.
Mondays, though, will be a challenge. I'll be working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. After my sweet little girl goes home, up to the parlor desk I go. Hope I don't mess anything up too badly!
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