Being Prepared

BE PREPARED - two words everyone should live by.  Some key phrases come to mind: Be prepared for the worst; be prepared for the unexpected; be prepared to hang on tight, and be prepared to be amazed.....

The benefits of abiding by that motto was especially apparent when yesterday at 3:30 pm our director found out that out preschool assessment was bumped up to today. We've worked hard the past few years to be very in sync with the program to the point where we really don't need to do more than keep current on changes and walk through each other's rooms every now & then to spot things we love and see what could be improved or placed differently. It's such a normal part of our operation that to have a sudden assessment day sprung on us was no big deal. And blessings abounded because the teacher who really wanted to be in the spotlight was chosen, (her children are so angelic it's almost freaky), AND we got the assessor who gave us our highest marks ever a couple years ago.  Yay!  We are all secretly hoping to beat all the other preschools in our county again.

And now for our Be Prepared to Be Amazed portion of today's Preschool report:  did you know this trike, operated by a professional, can spin a kid 180-360 degrees?! If only it had a seat belt because every now and then even a professional loses a kid right out of the seat! Of course that happens most often when the degree of difficulty matches the degree of daredevil , with the feet off the pedals and resting on the bar, white knuckled grip, and as someone runs to reach maximum speed, flung into the spin zone! To begin this play, my favorite thing to do is walk all casual near someone riding it, and when they pass me, I grab the handle, and run them backwards or spin them around. I gotta watch the spin on that maneuver because they never see it coming and they fall off.  Today I was playing with some kids and there is this one sweetie who seemed quite fearless. I whispered to her to get on... GET ON! Hurry!  And off we went for about 20 minutes of running, being chased by kids on Harley Big Wheels, making some awesome spins, and even wheelies!  Usually the wheelies have to be real tame but she took all I could dish out and kept screaming for more; we even managed to go do a high enough wheelie to manhandle someone on the Harley Big Wheel;  our trike tire was on top of hers and we pushed her backwards and it made the coolest sound like cards in a bike tire. We OWNED that Big Wheel! (poor other kid) I'm thinking Fisher Price totally had all this in mind when they named that little red and purple trike The (MONSTER) ROCK ROLL & RIDE.  That one qualifies for be prepared for the unexpected.