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your kid just has a stuffed teddy bear? sad….

Today, Monster turns 4. As in, my baby is 4. I don’t have a baby anymore.  There are no more cribs or diapers in my house. I am so okay with that. Yesterday, we had an Angry Bird’s party for 9 toddlers and I watched as my baby played and talked and opened cards. Instead of gifts, he raised almost $150 for the Soldier On Fund. You have not been reading long if you think I made these. Check out https://www.facebook.com/groups/108334602588902/ Today on his actual day of birth, I rostered in his class. Let me just get something out there. I hate rostering. Seriously, I may be a terrible parent for admitting it, but I don’t like a room full of preschoolers.  I don’t like craft time or centers.  I don’t look forward to the ‘opportunity to be involved in my child learning experience at school’.  I just…. don’t. But it was his birthday today and I smiled through the singing, the gym time and the cutting out of 25 cardboard stockings. During circle time, I noticed that all the kids have their pictures taped to the carpet where they sit during class.  Almost all of them.  Along with a couple other kids, Monster’s picture is taped to one of the chairs beside the carpet and that’s where he sits. I had noticed this before, but I took my opportunity there to ask the teacher how come he sits in the chair instead of on the carpet.  And the perpetually happy teacher (aren’t all preschool teachers simply the happiest people? I thank God people like them were…