Bravery Award

Yesterday, before leaving to take the gremlin to daycare I reminded her not to forget her Teddy. She is completely inseparable from her Teddy most days, but sometimes she gets preoccupied and she forgets all about Teddy.

Instead she was more interested in dancing around and less interested in getting ready for daycare. Friday is her day for show and tell, and she gets upset when she misses show and tell, so we were trying to rush her out the door. Unfortunately, Teddy got left behind.

She realized it when we were already half way to her day care, and since we were walking and its a 30 minute walk each way there was no way we were turning back. We felt it was more important for her to learn the lesson of "listen to the mom and dad and do what your told and you won't forget things" anyway.

As heartbreaking as it was, and after consoling her for a few minutes, we left her with her class and started walking home. We were both so tempted to just take her home with us, but we fought the urge... and I'm glad we did.

I called the daycare later that day to ask how she was doing and they said she was doing fine. She calmed down shortly after we left and was even content to snuggle the doll she brought for show and tell at rest time. I was planning to pick her up early, but I figured since she seemed fine, I'd just leave her.

Of course we brought Teddy with us when we went to pick her up and she was so excited to see her... and she was in a very good mood. She'd had a good day at school. When we packed her things to go home, we noticed a piece of paper in her bag:

It reads "Taiya, We are very proud of your accomplishment of being brave at rest time without Teddy."

And believe me... this is quite an accomplishment for her! *smiling proud mom*