BebeSounds Prenatal Heart Listener. I can never seem to find Bitsy's heart beat with it, but B.B. will stand silent and listen for much longer than I ever expected. He'll also bring it to me & say, "Me hava' hear Baby Bitsy now, Mommy. You push this button uh me." He'll also repeatedly ask, "What's dat sound?" The only answer I have is Baby Bitsy & that always seems to satify him. And if he looses intrest in Bitsy, I can always stick it on his belly & let him listen to his own innards.
Another Iris by the pond...again from Uncle E.
QM is a hero today. Go read it. She saved the world from Evil. And me from going on the hunt for a toy I'll never find again anyway.
For my real issue today:
The the road that runs infront of BabyGirl's school is a one way street with No Parking signs down both sides. The signs are completely usless as they are ignored. Parents parallel park down both sides of the street to wait for their kids to come out. (If your child is in kindergarten, you have to go in and get them from their class.) But no one seems to know how to parallel park (not that I can, but I don't add to the following problem). They park with half a car length between them taking up far more room than necessary & making it difficult to find a place to park...which also means if you have to get out and get your kid, you have to get there 20 minutes before school lets out to find a place relatively close to the school.
By the time we wait for a reasonable time to go in, I unload the boys, and go in to get BabyGirl, they're grumpy or wound up or simply can't stand still. Then we have to fight with the 80 kids heading out one door to go down one sidewalk to hunt for their folks with no attention paid to the comings and goings of cars in the street. I buckle up the kids and then have to sit and wait for traffic to open up and let us out, or (in today's case) for the woman standing by the truck infront of me to finish catching up the man in the truck on the last 10 years of her life. I kid you not.
One woman had parked in at an angle behind me making it impossible for me to see where the front of her car actually was and the truck in front was being held hostage for a full 7 minutes by the chatty woman (who kept turning and looking at me like I had a lot of nerve sitting in my own van). When she finally left, the man in the truck just sat there looking out his window aimlessly. I had to wait another 2 minutes for the woman behind me with the parking problem to come out and move so I could leave.
9 minutes setting in a parked van with 3 kids arguing about why we aren't driving. Not fun. Especially when we were the only 3 vehicles infront of the school!!!
3 comments:
Sounds like the school needs a lesson on proper carpool management. The boys school in AL got over 500 kids thru their carpool in a matter of 10 minutes.
oh my don't come around here
Argh. There is nothing that makes more more frustrated than driving - or rather other completely oblivious drivers.
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