Pwetty

Today I was dressed up as a Super Princess- with a pink scarf, sky blue bow, blue hula skirt, and a yellow sparkly princess hat. My plump little four year old friend, who was dressed as Supergirl, clapped her hands in delight and exclaimed "You look so pwetty!!!" You know what, I felt kinda super and pretty! I had to go check myself out in the mirror! There is something freeing about hanging out with children under the age of 4: they are just in the moment. Last week I had on a Egyptiany coin skirt over my shorts, and danced around free play time just to hear the tinkling as I sashayed. The kids loved it, and many chubby little hands reached out to help make music as I went by. Because the regular teacher is in South Africa adopting a beautiful boy, I am doing a theme on South Africa. I scored at our local child resource center and found a learning kit of African dance music and instruments. If I was teaching this unit to adults, I would be totally stressed about looking like an idiot, but with my little buddies, we just crank the music and boogy high, boogy low, jump on one foot, whatever we feel like as we play away and move to the music. I have had little stwinges of envy at my working friend's lovely outfits when she drops off her little girl. She is a single mom, and must work, but I eye her high heeled leather boots, sophisticated hair do, business attire, and then look down at my sheep skin slippers and laugh. She may get be in an adult atmosphere all day, which I am sure has it perks- one of them being that she gets to use an adult part of her brain that I never seem to get too- BUT (ignore my run on sentence, please), as I lay on the hospital bed (playroom couch) today, because I was "berry, berry sick", and was given stuffed animals, books, "juice", "fruit", needle after needle of "medicine", had my heart checked, handcuffed (I DID question that medical practice), and was given a warm, soft kiss on the forehead to aid in my recovery, my main thought was "I am one lucky girl, or should I say, one lucky sick Super Princess!