The Struggle Is Real
The last few days has been busy.... We all go through a busy season or few days a week where your cramin' everything in those few days while the rest of the week is low key.
We started off our day painting per Henry's request. We have been doing a lot of messy fun crafts at ecfe classes lately and he has really enjoyed it. So after he asked i got him a paint tray and some paper and let him go to town.
Yesterday was Dr. Seuss So Henry and i went to Bella's school for the read across america. She insisted i come and bring Henry so we made sure our schedule was arranged to make it to that event. Her class was filled with students and parents joining them as we all read a book that we picked. That evening i had my bible study with my girls, which i look forward to each time. It's a great way to decompress from mom life and talk about our struggles and build each other back up!
I just got home from a play date with a mom from my ecfe classes the past few years. We finally had our first play date and we went to this indoor play place called the wishing tree play cafe. It's a indoor play gym that is divided in three sections half is a cafe with table and chairs to drink coffee with other moms and eat breakfast lunch or snack while your kids are playing in the other side if you want. The play side has a big kid section and little kid section. The big kid section has climbing gym and a road around it to drive ride on toys around the loop, they have a foam pit with pool noodles to jump in, tons of bouncy toys to play on, plus tons of other fun kid things to do. The baby side has a climbing tree and little kids toys to play with. It was a busy place, my friend said it is never that busy like it was today.
Unfortunately we had a incident with another kid and Henry. I hate confutation and today i had to deal with it! Henry decided to run on the road that loops the jungle gym and this other little boy was chasing him, at first i thought it was funny that he had a little running partner! But then the kid pinned him down and started pulling his ear and scratching the back of neck. I got him off and calmed Henry down and told the kid to be nice. I thought i solved that issue, but No I did not! 2 min. later the kid started chasing Henry and did the same thing but this time did a full on bite on his arm. So i followed the little "stinker" to find his mother that is so clearly absent from watching him. So i went up to her and said i just want to let you know your son bite my kid. Henry was doing the ugly cry and screaming so loud! He has never been bite before... She said Ok! Im sorry!!! I thought ok she is dealing with it. So we went and played in the baby section and the kid showed up again this time the mom finally was watching him and the kid locked Henry's head with his arm. The mom jumps in and said you need to be "friendly with your friends" UMMMM WHAT!!!! Friendly???? Then she proceeded to tell me about how he had issues with another kid at first but now there best friends! I was like, "ohh really, yeah my kid isn't going to be his friend" and walked away. I had to stand next to him the rest of the time in fear of another attack. I am all about parents parenting whatever way works for you but when your child is hurting others you either need to leave or correct it then. We left shortly after because i was done being hover mom to Henry.
I am exhausted after that, i love play dates it usually is a great time to chat with the mom and talk about life and mom issues. But this was draining! We are having my friends kids over for movie and pizza night while both the parents are at work. Maybe a nap will take place this afternoon? Ha -a dream!
We started off our day painting per Henry's request. We have been doing a lot of messy fun crafts at ecfe classes lately and he has really enjoyed it. So after he asked i got him a paint tray and some paper and let him go to town.
Yesterday was Dr. Seuss So Henry and i went to Bella's school for the read across america. She insisted i come and bring Henry so we made sure our schedule was arranged to make it to that event. Her class was filled with students and parents joining them as we all read a book that we picked. That evening i had my bible study with my girls, which i look forward to each time. It's a great way to decompress from mom life and talk about our struggles and build each other back up!
I just got home from a play date with a mom from my ecfe classes the past few years. We finally had our first play date and we went to this indoor play place called the wishing tree play cafe. It's a indoor play gym that is divided in three sections half is a cafe with table and chairs to drink coffee with other moms and eat breakfast lunch or snack while your kids are playing in the other side if you want. The play side has a big kid section and little kid section. The big kid section has climbing gym and a road around it to drive ride on toys around the loop, they have a foam pit with pool noodles to jump in, tons of bouncy toys to play on, plus tons of other fun kid things to do. The baby side has a climbing tree and little kids toys to play with. It was a busy place, my friend said it is never that busy like it was today.
Unfortunately we had a incident with another kid and Henry. I hate confutation and today i had to deal with it! Henry decided to run on the road that loops the jungle gym and this other little boy was chasing him, at first i thought it was funny that he had a little running partner! But then the kid pinned him down and started pulling his ear and scratching the back of neck. I got him off and calmed Henry down and told the kid to be nice. I thought i solved that issue, but No I did not! 2 min. later the kid started chasing Henry and did the same thing but this time did a full on bite on his arm. So i followed the little "stinker" to find his mother that is so clearly absent from watching him. So i went up to her and said i just want to let you know your son bite my kid. Henry was doing the ugly cry and screaming so loud! He has never been bite before... She said Ok! Im sorry!!! I thought ok she is dealing with it. So we went and played in the baby section and the kid showed up again this time the mom finally was watching him and the kid locked Henry's head with his arm. The mom jumps in and said you need to be "friendly with your friends" UMMMM WHAT!!!! Friendly???? Then she proceeded to tell me about how he had issues with another kid at first but now there best friends! I was like, "ohh really, yeah my kid isn't going to be his friend" and walked away. I had to stand next to him the rest of the time in fear of another attack. I am all about parents parenting whatever way works for you but when your child is hurting others you either need to leave or correct it then. We left shortly after because i was done being hover mom to Henry.
I am exhausted after that, i love play dates it usually is a great time to chat with the mom and talk about life and mom issues. But this was draining! We are having my friends kids over for movie and pizza night while both the parents are at work. Maybe a nap will take place this afternoon? Ha -a dream!
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