shorts from my stint at a day care

This is a collection of humorous things that happened while I had my very short-lived job with a local day care/preschool.

Bradon running around playing a pretend game and yelling, "AMBLEANCE! AMBLEANCE!"

Right after this, Stace, who was treated by the ambleance and revived pretends to be dead. From Greg- "She's DEAD AGAIN!"

One of my favorite handfuls was Bradon. One particular day she was in time out twice within the same 10 minutes. After telling her to come back to the group, she somehow wound up on the time out bench again. I asked the other teachers which one put her there but they all told me it wasn't them. As it turned out she put herself in time out because she felt she was mean to one of the other kids!

Kiana has a very cute speech problem in which most of her consonants sound alike. The cutest phrase I have heard her say was to Bradon's mom- "Bradon had a dood day today!"

In this same vein, many of them call me "Teetsa (teacher)" rather than use my name.

Christian is always talking. He constantly interrupts the teachers to explain whatever is on his mind, no matter how busy we are when he sees us. Here's an exchange he had with D'arcy:
Chris- EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME!
D'arcy- Chris, you are going to drive me crazy.
Chris- Dawcy, you say that evwy day.
D'arcy (looking shocked)- Oh my gosh! Do I really?
me- Yup you do.

Trying so hard to get Jared to sit on the toilet and then seeing him make a mess is very frustrating. He usually claims, "No no thank you. I'll go at home." One day he was crying after being told to 'go sit down and try'. He ends up making it in time with no mess. He immediately stops crying and stands up to look at it. He smiles and says, "It's a word!" I'm still not sure what he was talking about or why it was suddenly no big deal.

We had green juice on St Patrick's day. D'arcy told everyone it might turn them into Leprechauns. After nap suddenly D'arcy tells Bradon, "Go look in the mirror quick. Your face has turned green." Instead of smiling or going to a mirror, Bradon puts her head down and almost starts crying. We had to hurry up and tell her we were only joking.

Nicholas always asks why we have to lie down for nap. After trying answers like, "So you're not tired" and "Because kids need sleep" without getting him to stop asking, I now answer with "because nap starts with an N" or "because sleep has two E's".
At these answers he always responds, "OH!" and lies down without further complaint.

Chris has some funny adult mannerisms such as acting like he's in charge of the day care. He often tells others when it's time to do things, e.g. "Everyone sit down with your slippers on!" We always try to tell him he's not a teacher, but I don't think it sinks in. Once during this behavior, Bradon was fooling around not sitting still and this mom-type classic came out of Chris' mouth, "Bradon, don't make me angry!"