Everybody?

I’ll not post on Mel’s recent experience visiting McCanless at school for lunch last week, I’ll focus on a somewhat more positive note. (I’ll let him post on her latest doghouse visit, which coincided with their lunch date.)

Today, I walked outside on our morning break to watch McCanless on the playground with her class. She was chatting with her teacher and Ms. Chure smiled and looked at me and called McCanless the “class momma.” Ms. Chure then asked her to take another classmate to the bathroom. McCanless took her friend by the hand and headed through the main building doors. (Really, she dragged him by the arm.) A few minutes passed and I had to duck inside for a minute. A few of my older students were laughing and pointed toward the girls bathroom door when they saw me. I reluctantly stepped inside the bright pink bathroom thinking maybe a toilet needed flushing, or someone was sick…I found McCanless shoving her male friend inside the stall. She slammed the door and ran outside to join her class. I think Ms. Chure wanted her to walk him to the boys bathroom, but he didn’t say a word. I waited on him and asked him why he didn’t tell McCanless to walk with him to the boys bathroom. He looked at me with such a surprised face and said, “Everybody does what McCanless says.”

More on Mary Clare…
Mary Clare is becoming more and more vocal, but not really saying many “real” words yet. She is walking like a champ and is so funny. She looks like a little zombie when she walks with her arms straight out front and stiff legs. She is up to 20 lbs now!! She has quite a temper lately too, especially when big sis has what she wants. She is getting about 4 teeth in and bedtime boot camp isn’t going as well as it was in the past. She has been waking up several times throughout the night and, thankfully, Mel has graciously been getting up with her at night, which may explain his most current lapse in parenting skills…

Today, he mentioned to me not to ever leave a sippy cup or food on the bedside table. (Although McCanless would rather not eat at all, I always offer juice and usually dry cereal in a cup. I try to make her take it with us in the car, but I guess this morning we left it in a rush.) Apparently, Mary Clare has become quite the dare devil climber. This morning, Mel placed her in the playroom to play and jumped into the shower. When he was finished, he opened the door to our bedroom and found Mary Clare on my bedside table sipping juice and munching on Captain Crunch! (We have a rice bed which is quite tall, I might add.) I guess we need to move that trunk from below the foot of the bed!

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