I Get It

singing "Itsy Bitsy" at the character breakfast

OK so there are many aspects of parenthood that I didn't get until I joined the club... The most embarrassing admission is that often when parents told me about situations they were sad or excited about prior to having kids, I just didn't exactly see how those emotions would arise... like sending your kid off to school on the first day... why tears? wouldn't it be excitement?...stupid I know...  Yes, it should be obvious.  I quickly joined the club, though, and was teared up in the parking lot the first time Elsie ran off on her own at school.... Then there were the characters--I never got why parents thought that it was a big deal for their kids to interact with fake people and was puzzled by their running frantically after a Bat or a Sandgnat.... but here I was standing by Dora, Diego, and Boots grinning---and I'm off to the side with Spongebob and Patrick (just learned his name) so you can't see me in the pictures--and didn't get a picture with the Wonderpets duck, but I would have been there too.  Yes, that's me the eager smiling turncoat next to Elsie and Kit and the big dressed up faker!