Dancing Scream
7 February 2007, 07:13
The inevitable. Scout’s first “incident” at creche yesterday.
She had been doing the Scout Groove (she has a variation on her dancing theme, where she stands up, bobs up and down and now points to the sky with both hands – it really is tres cute. It will kill you) and she stumbled forward and hit the corner of a table, scraping the side of her forehead, perilously close to her left eye.
Apparently she screamed/cried for 10 seconds but was easily pacified. And straight back up again dancing after her ice pack started to melt. That’s my girl…
She has really found her attitude of late. She has been throwing what I suspect are fully-blown tantrums for 5 or so minutes. She stops when she realises I’m not going to pander to her or pacify her. Aren’t I an awful mum? Hee hee. They don’t happen very often – she’s usually an absolute dream, making everyone laugh and roadshowing new signature flirty looks with the boys. The girls at creche dote on her, she’s so bloody entertaining (thanks, I’ll take credit for that…)
YOU Sir, are a bolshy monkey!
Creche has been incredibly good. They do call us if Scout is being overly “emotional”, but most days she’s happy and excitable and loves the fact that they have new, cool toys and boys to play with. There’s one boy who can only sleep on the floor in the playroom (the others all sleep in cots in the cot room) so Scout spends his nap time crawling over the top of him back and forth, and (the horror!) enticing others to join her posse of mischief. Not once has this little boy woken up, though.
It cracks me up that they always say “she’s being emotional”. Dude, she aint emotional, she’s just tired and cranky and carrying on like a porkchop. I am such a harsh, harsh mum.
Yesterday, I spied on her for a couple of minutes when I collected her to see how she was acting (before she realised I was there). She was sitting on her carers lap, entertaining two boys around 3 or 4 years old. She was carrying on giggling and flirting and these two boys were visibly captivated. When I finally did leave with her, the boys followed us to the half-door, and called “Scout! Scout!”. The carer explained that Scout was leaving and one boy looked like he was about to crack the poos and “become emotional”. Goodness, lock up your sons NOW people!
Permanent Link | - No offence, but it sounds like you don’t really like children…you seem to expend a lot of energy posting negative comments about them…it does have a touch of misanthropy…
— david mishima Feb 8, 10:34 PM # - Sounds like the little ‘un is having a great time and has settled in really well, good work all.
Not sure where commenter number two gets that view from, but I can’t see it in anything you write (aren’t you the guy who posted before about how boring this blog is? Why did you bother to come back?)
— bogue Feb 9, 12:03 AM # - Kinki, Thank you SOOO much for your blog! Today is my own first child’s due date and I’ve been surfing the net to keep myself occupied since baby hasn’t arrived yet. Your postings have been exactly what I needed to read to keep me laughing, up-beat about labor and birth, and just thrilled to be so close to entering motherhood. I wish you and your family the best!
— Kristina Feb 14, 03:55 PM #
