Life at Daycare

*Day 63*

I know this is a weird picture. But, just wait, the stories that go along with it are funny. (At least they were when they happened, I'm not so good at conveying that in writing. I'll do my best.)

In case you don't know, I work at my sister, Lynn's, house. She has run a daycare for years. I help her with her daycare and teach preschool. It's been a great job for me. It's fun, and filled with childhood wisdom and some pretty funny remarks.

So, back to my picture. This is the heat vent in the basement. Preschool is in the basement. The bathroom is upstairs. When the kids are playing in the bathroom instead of washing their hands, you can hear it in the basement through this heat vent. It has come in handy to be able to hear what's going on up there. And comical if you have a child who talks while "taking care of business". Usually we just hear mumbling or noises, and it takes us a minute to figure out what it is before we remember someone's up there. But one day..... We had read the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?" Me and Lynn happened to be standing right under the heat vent when we heard a child in the bathroom talking. And they said, "White toilet paper, white toilet paper, what do you see?" Me and Lynn looked at each other, and, of course, started laughing. I couldn't stop. And I was a bit disappointed that I didn't couldn't stop laughing long enough to hear the rest. Or was I?

It also made me laugh the other day to find out that the kids have figured out the bathroom-basement connection through the heat vent. The kids were finishing washing their hands after snack, so I headed downstairs with the ones who were finished. Then plain as day, I hear Diego. "Jessica's playing in the water!" He actually got down on the floor and yelled directly into the heat vent to get help. Hey, who needs an intercom system?