Identity theft by the pink bow wearing bandit

Earlier this week, I finally bit the bullet and joined the dreaded gym. Aside from the fact that I have to wear a bathing suit in less than a month, I thought the gym’s child care services would be good socialization for Mary Reese. So, for the past three days, I have dropped MR off at “Kid Zone” and gone about my huffing and puffing on the elliptical machines.

After my daily dose of the View (don’t ask, MR got me watching the show because she adores Whoopi), I routinely head back to Kid Zone to pick up baby girl. Each time, I have noticed bits of sticky paper on her. Some in her mouth; on her face; on her hands. Pretty much all over her body. Because I am a scattered-brained mom most of the time, I have never really questioned how the sticky paper got there. Until today…

As one of the sweet caretakers handed MR off, she told me two things: 1) MR had hit a number of kids. I quickly corrected her and told her that MR does not “hit”, but rather “love-pats”; and there is a big difference between hitting and patting. And 2) MR likes to go around stealing the other kids name tags. The name tags are placed on the backs of each child and apparently Ms Mary Reese spends the majority of her time in Kid Zone crab crawling from victim to victim, stealing identities as she goes.

I had to laugh. We have known from the minute MR was born that she was going to be a mess; but, identity theft at 8 months, that one never crossed my mind…

The Perpetrator:

Another milestone–Mary Reese pulled-up for the first time today in her crib.