What broke my day: smart, fox-like kids. Okay, I actually admire any three year old who can outsmart me, but as the childcare provider it does frustrate me when a three-year old keeps trying to get out of nap time and not eat lunch, and not listen to me. It's frustrating when what you say goes in one ear and out the other. But in his cute way, Ayden definitely takes the cake for being a sly little fox. There were several times today when he was a sneaky little bugger. The first was his intense bargaining when eating lunch. First off, I have never met a slower eater in my entire life. He ate one bite of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, 5 strawberries, some carrots, and 1/3 of a pudding, and do you know how long it took him? An hour and half!!!! All the while I was stuck watching that ridiculous show Yo Gabba Gabba! I couldn't get him to eat any more than that, and we instead went outside to the playground. After telling him we could only play for an hour and then we had to take a nap, 10 minutes before we were going to go inside he decided he really wanted to take a walk. I said yes, because I wanted to get some exercise anyway, and soon after we begun our trek he told me he wanted to go to town, which means downtown. So we walked that way and do you know where that sneaky child led me? Right to the ice cream parlor. Yeah, he knew the entire time where we were going, but I stood by my decision and I didn't let him get ice cream, and we headed back. He soon looked me straight in the eye with those big, adorable brown eyes and said, "my legs hurt, will you carry me?" So, I had to carry him for 20 minutes all the way home. On top of that he neglected to tell me that he had an accident so my entire side was wet by the time we got back. Begin nap time: he always tries to get out of nap time.I always tell him I will lay with him, and then I sneak out after 15 minutes because he's asleep. But, for the first 15 minutes he kicked the bed, played with the cats and did other things. I love this kid because he is so freaking smart, he knows how to get away with anything when I'm watching him. Other kids, I wouldn't let get away with not eating, or sleeping, or tricking me. But him, he has outsmarted me, and that simultaneously makes and breaks my day.
What made my day: going out for coffee with a good friend. Today, after work my friend Kyrie ( who is older, but not much wiser) made plans to go to Saugatuck for coffee. Well, Saugatuck is quaint, gourmet, and where "all the gays go to get their coffee." I like it a lot, it's on the beach, stocked with cute coffee shops and art galleries, and extremely good looking men who are ALL off the market due to sexual orientation. Everyone there is friendly and creative and all around awesome. So we headed downtown, and who do we see? Kyrie's gay, autistic, brother, his boyfriend, and her mother. Have I mentioned that West Michigan is a small world full of Dutch Bingo (which is like 7 degrees of separation in the Dutch community). Of course they were also going to the coffee shop, Uncommon Grounds (see what they did there?) to have AHMAZING coffee. I got my French Guiana coffee, and we sat down to have ridiculous conversations about old people going crazy, George Takei (who Kyrie had met, and every time anything Star Trek related comes up makes sure to tell me that she has indeed met), and European boys. While I didn't get to dish on the man in my life to Kyrie (because it would have gotten back to my mom through Kyrie's mom, just another example of small town living), it was a wonderful experience. The artsy stores we could walk into, the fact that we ran into more of my mother's friends (once again...you don't understand how small the dutch community is), and that it was the ideal temperature made it all perfect. We got into town about 7, and I expected to leave around 8, but the next thing I knew it was 9:30, and I had no idea that we had been gone that long. Saugatuck is that kind of place, where you lose track of time because you are enthralled by the boutiques, the art, the culture, and the setting. Sitting on the veranda of the coffee shop made me feel so chic, so hipster, so cool. I love pretending that I am the epitome of some french magazine for hipsters, and sitting there listening to the birds chirping and the quite streets made me feel exactly like that. I think I will go to Saugatuck more often, because it no doubt makes me feel cool and classy, which will always make my day.
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