The End of an Amazing Day
Ottie sat in the back seat of the car while Susan complained about her day. She had picked Ottie up from the daycare around 6:30 when she got off work. She would rather be picked up by her dad, but he didn't get home till 7:30. The daycare was about fifteen minutes from their house, and they had only been driving for about five, so she still had about ten minutes until she was home and could wait for her dad, which she thought was a lot of time. Susan was still rambling on about how she already hated her new job and how bad her coworkers were, but Ottie didn't pay her any mind, she just watched the landscape go by out the window while she thought about the fun she had earlier that day. She played in the play structure for a while until she had heard Sun call all of the kids for snack time, they had had animal crackers. After they finished eating Sun did crafts with all of the kids which was about 7 that day. And after that Ottie discovered the ball pit and played in that until Susan came and picked her up. She couldn't wait till her dad came home and she could tell him all about the fun she had.
Before she knew it, they were home. After getting out of the car and walking in the door Susan told her to go upstairs and wait for her dad in her room, she really didn't need to be told she would have gone up their anyways. She climbed the stairs one by one until she finally made it to the top and walked into her room. Her room wasn't huge, but it wasn't tiny either, it was as big of a room a 4-year-old needed. She had her as she called it "big girl bed", it was really just her old crib with one of the sides taken off, she had a small desk made for kids, a bookshelf full of coloring and picture books, and a small closet which housed her clothes and her toy box. She grabbed her favorite coloring book from the shelf, one made up of different animal coloring pages, and sat down at her desk and colored till her dad got home.
She felt she had been coloring for a while and checked her puppy clock that sat on her desk, 7:31 it read. 'Dad will be home really soon' she thought and as if she summoned it she could here his car pull into the driveway. She set down the crayon that was in here hand and sped down the stairs and out the door to meet her dad. She waited in the grass for his car to shut off, her father had warned her how dangerous it was to go near a car that was turned on. Once the car engine stopped and he opened his car, she ran up to him and jumped into his arms.
"How was your day" He asked her with amusement and happiness in his voice. "Did you have fun?"
"I had soooo much fun daddy," she said excitedly "that place was amazing"
"Alright why don't we go in and you can tell me all about it over dinner?"
"Alright" and he carried her into the house in his arms.
"Hi honey" Susan called from the kitchen "Go ahead and sit down at the table and i'll bring in dinner, I made pasta."
"Alright" he said to her a little louder than his normal voice so she could hear him from the kitchen. "Go sit in your seat Ottie."
"Alight" she said, and she scrambled up into her booster seat. She hated using it, but she couldn't reach without it.
"Why don't you tell me about that amazing day you had hmm?" And she did exactly that she rambled on and on through dinner about Sun and the slides and the ball pit.
"Seems like you had fun, I'm glad" he said once she had finished talking. He seemed amused at how she kept talking in circles and the excited tone she had the whole time. On the other hand, Susan seemed the opposite. She had a smile plastered on her face, but anybody could tell that it was fake. She was annoyed by Ottie's seemingly endless ramblings. She had wanted to talk to her boyfriend about her day, not listen to the brat the whole time. 'We should have chosen a different daycare to send her to', she thought to herself.