It's crazy being a parent

I have been thinking a lot lately about being a parent- and how WEIRD it is to be experiencing things that I can rememebr doing as a child, but now doing them as a parent. It feels soo crazy but at the same time it is fun getting to experience the same things in a different way.
Macee came home from school the other day with a little torn piece of paper and a phone number written on it in crayon. She told me it was her friend Sydney's number and that Sydney told her to call and she could come over to play "Littlest Pet Shop". Well, I couldn't quite make out the scribbled number from her friend so all week long last week we tried to figure out how to arrange this play date. We finally got in touch with Sydeny's mom on Saturday and we decided that Macee could go home with her one day after school to play until I got off work. Well, yesterday Macee informed her teachers at school that she was supposed to go home with Sydney that day and the girls were talking about it all day and even tried to get Jadyn out of her classroom so that she could go with them too! The teachers were not quite convinced from the girls, so when Sydneys mom came they talked to her and actually ended up calling me too to make sure there wasn't a misscommunication between us. We were planning on it, just hadn't picked a day yet, but the girls were convinced today was THE DAY!! These are 4 year old girls! I remember going home after school to a friends house in Elementary and Jr High- but not pre-school! They are growing up way too fast!
Macee also got her ears pierced for Christmas...well DAD took her to get them done without mom! She had been wanting them, but I didn't think she'd actually go through with it! She only had one tear the brave thing. She likes them, but we have had one minor problem ever since......she is so afraid they are going to fall in the toilet when she goes potty! Mind you, Macee is very afraid of things going down the toilet and if anything is lost she thinks maybe it got flushed down the toilet......where this obsession or fear came from I do not know! Anyway, shortly after she got them pierced she started getting lots of tummy aches and we finally figured out she was not going to the bathroom very much and was getting constipated and tummy aches from trying to hold it and not have to use the bathroom- all because of her fear of her earrings falling in the toilet!!! Thanks Dad!
We finally got her to go ONLY IF someone would watch her to make sure they didn't fall in! Now we have moved on a bit and she will go by herself the majority of the time, but the minute she flushes she instantly grabs her ears (pants still down and all) to make sure the earrings are not getting flushed away! Ahh the minds of young children- they crack me up!
I know it's just going to get better, and worse...I am definitly fearing going to the "special program" for little girls in 5th grade with my kids- but who knows by then it will probably be done in 3rd grade!! YIKES! It is just plain weird right now though because sometimes I feel like I just got out of high school and now my own child is getting ready to go to elementary school! CRAZY!! I think I need to stop stressing over these little changes and enjoy it...but it's so WEIRD!!! Ok, enough of the WEIRDNESS because you all are thinking that now I am really weird! Blog to you later! Here's a couple cute pic's too! Hope you all are well!