Paul Bunyan's Kid

Daycare continues to be rough for Cullen. He got strep throat (no big surprise) and was out 2 days this week. The day he went back Tripp took him and of course Cullen was NOT happy about it. Cullen has stayed very firm about where he stands on the issue of daycare--opposed! However, apparently he does enjoy some of it. I called Tripp after he dropped Cullen off after his days out and asked how it went. Tripp said that it was rough as we expected but then he told me a very comical story. He said that Cullen had cried and acted very dramatic as Tripp left which made Tripp feel horrible and on top of that Emerson broke down when he dropped her in her classroom, her favorite classroom with her favorite teacher (I personally thinks she likes to play on Tripp's emotions!). So there's Tripp thinking he's abandoning his children and that they are just crying their little eyes out for their daddy. He leaves and drives to the bank to deposit a check then drives back past the daycare on his way to work (it's within walking distance to both of our jobs!) and sees kids on the playground. And this is how he described what he saw--

'Cafreene, I looked and saw all these little babies playing on the playground. They looked so tiny running around I was thinking they must have been a group from the baby room. Then I spotted Cullen's red overalls and all I could think was how much he looked like some lumberjack running around with a bunch of midgets.'

And then when I got home from work Tripp did a visual demonstration of what he saw. He took the trashcan from our room and set it in the middle of the floor then held up his arms like a giant and ran around the trashcan saying (with a giant's voice, of course) "you want to play with me kids?". I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to wet my pants. Really, Cullen is so much bigger than the kids in his class that he looks like we've been doping him with baby steroids. And it doesn't help that there is a little girl in his room only a few months younger than him that is so tiny that Tripp has affectionately named her Thumbelina. So in comparison to her Cullen honestly does look like a giant.

I'm beginning to think he is really Paul Bunyan's kid!

Seriously, we were relieved to find out that although Cullen pretends to hate daycare he does enjoy parts of the day--stomping around making the ground shake for all the other kids and of course snack time!!!!!!! :)