The child developent class

I know this was a very educational class for me in high school. My dear daughter is taking this class as she puts it for a third time. But this time around it is a very different class. My teacher retired last year, so this year we have a new younger teacher. Brianna dose not like change so it took a few weeks for her to get accustomed to the new teacher. She had seemed to adjust very well and started to like it a little bit. Then a we had last week. First the class was paired up and each group had to pull a random birth defect out of a bag. The intention was that the group would get a defect that they knew little about and do a report on it and then present to the class.

Guess what she got?

Yep, Spina Bifida. So the group was suppose to research and then do a presentation with visual aids for the class. My little girl goes way over board. She does enough research for a documentary, goes though the baby book and gets personal experiences, then makes copies of pic. with Nat in his different things, and we went though and picked out some of his braces to show what they are. Her partner get to type up the final draft. If you have met my daughter you will know that she struggles with writing so this is very fair for her.

Then today she received a baby. She gets to raise this baby doll for the next week. In our house we haven't had much sleep here lately. We got 2 new puppies last week. They are so cute but they are like any other infant, sleep all day, play all night. Then the girls have been sick for the last week and keeping Mommy up when they are up. So we have spent alot of time doing laundry and bonding in the bath room. Now we still have the puppies, Josie is still sick, and now their is a new born baby doll, no, not too much sleeping will be going on here. I found out this afternoon that she is one of two of the first in the class to take home the baby. They were given the option of doing a report on teen pregnancy or take the baby. Well every one in the class was. Not Brianna. Earlier I mention that Brianna refers to taking the class before, well she says she took the class when Mommy was pregnant, and when she was 1 with Daddy. So the teacher decided that doing a report on teen pregnancy, parenting and the effects on the child would just be copies of her baby book so she wasn't really given the option.

Now Brianna loves babies, so she was very exited to get the baby. but the joy is quickly diminishing. I made her push the cart in the grocery store, load the car, put the cart away while i ran to another store, so she had to push the cart back then take the baby back to the car, make her own dinner, and take the baby to the bath room to try to get a shower.. She says she is still happy to have the baby, but it isn't as fun when you can't hand them off to someone else. The puppies keep thinking she brought them a new lick toy. I wonder how she will be holding up by Sunday, after the football game, work on Sat. and the toddlers coming over for the weekend.
I hope this will be enlightening for her.

Night to all, I'm going to try to get some much needed sleep, before all the needy one interrupt it.