danieljohnson

Today when I picked up Daniel at daycare I got stopped by two teachers before I even saw Daniel. Both of them were really eager on telling me how he was dirty because he was playing in a sand pit with water. The teachers said that maybe it would have been better if he had his rain gear on so he wouldn't get that dirty. Yeah, maybe. But apparently when they thougt about it, it was already too late. I get it that they have a lot of kids to look after, but am still a little annoyed. He has another set of clothes at daycare. How long had he been sitting in that puddle of mud before I came? Was there no time what so ever to go inside, have him change into another set of clothes and put the puddle-of-mud-protection-gear on? Anyways. Stupid as I am, I didn't say that out loud, I joked something about him always being in a puddle of mud or laying down in the sand box. He loves that stuff. And I don't mind him doing that. As long as he's wearing the stuff he's supposed to be wearing. So I got him and when the teachers saw him they both commented " oh, how muddy you got, Daniel".

(The kid in the picture is almost as muddy as Daniel was, but it's not him.)
So I went inside to do what the teachers should have done. I washed him off and put clean clothes on him. As we were putting his clothes on, one of the teachers told me how impressed she was with Daniel. She thinks he has an advanced vocabulary. When they were doing carpentry, Daniel was working with a hand drill. He was looking at it and asked the teacher "why does this drill have a gearwheel?" A big word for a little guy. We see a future as an engineer or a rocket scientist. With a mud repelling outfit.