Why I love my job!

I love the kiddos in my class! They make me smile,laugh and remind me why I love what I do!

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Circle time a little boy notices the bandaid on my finger. He looks at me with a very concerned face and says, "Oh, Teacher Debbie has a bandaid!"

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He looks up at me and leans his head close to mine and tell me he is tired. I tell him I'm tired, too. He looks around and asks, "Where's your bed?"

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I hear a little voice from the bathroom call out "Oh no!" Now, that's never a good thing to hear! I go to the bathroom door and he looks over at me with a disappointed face, "I peed on the seat!"

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At art time I am standing next to a littl

e girl who has noticed she got paint on my paints. She looks at her paint brush, back at my pants, looks up at me and says, "You have paint on your paints." She looks at her paintbrush again and says, "I'm sorry".

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I am told that the little boy in the bathroom is sitting on the seat backwards. I look in the door and he is indeed sitting on the seat backwards and tells me, "this is how big boys do it". He then gets up and switches positions to go #2. He looks down in the toilet bowl and says, "Look at my poop!" The smell then drifts through the bathroom. He reaches to turn the fan on and announces, "I need some air in here!" LOL!

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Dance class takes place on Fridays. All those who are signed up get a stamp on their hand at the end of class. One little guy who is not in dance class is very disappointed he did not get a stamp. He is preoccupied with his lack of a stamp all through lunch. I get out an apple stamp and give him his own stamp. He is very pleased. During nap, right before he drifts off to sleep, I see him pull his hand out from under his blanket and look at the stamp on his hand, gives it a little rub and settles in to sleep. Awwww!

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She notices I got a new pair of tennis shoes! "You got a new pair of shoes! Where did you get them?" I tell her I got them at the store. "Did your mommy go with you, she asks." I tell her no. She says, "Don't you have a mommy and daddy?" Oh my!

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I am invited to go over to a little girls house after school. I tell her that maybe someday I can do that. She says, "Do you have to ask your mom first?" LOL!

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He has learned to say my name very well, and loves to say it! "Debbie, Debbie, Debbie", he says it over and over, for no reason really, just gives me a big smile. About the time I'm thinking maybe I will change my name, he turns my face to towards his and gives me a big bear hug! Precious!

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The children like to hand me plastic envelopes that come with the Fisher Price Mailbox. I pretend I am reading them a letter from me. I read to one little boy, "Dear Michael, I think you are awesome! Love, Teacher Debbie". Later in the day, I praise him for the painting he had done. He looked at me and said, "That's because I am awesome!" So Sweet!

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We are out on the play yard. She is riding a car around the track and notices a dandelion growing in the grass. She looks over at me, rushes over to the dandelion and yanks it out of the ground. She runs to me and shoves it in my hand and hurries off to her car getting back to it before another child had taken her place! It was important to give me that flower, though!

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At the end of my day, I have a bouqet! One dandelion at a time!