Adventures With Leo
Feeling a little brighter today for no particular reason. We dragged Leo to the Franklin Middle School Open House last night. Let's just say the ambassador was not radiating goodwill last night. Standing in the gym for 15 minutes EXHAUSTED him....when I said we'd be walking around in a minute he said that would be even WORSE. We dragged him down the hall, in and out of one classroom, he sighed a lot and then I sighed a lot and decided to put us all out of our misery because I didn't see anything improving soon. I said, "o.k., look, this is going to be your hallway---you'll be going to the four classrooms on this side or the four classrooms on that side. Got it? O.k....let's go". He glowered at me with those big beautiful eyes and we left. As soon as we got off school grounds he was fine. God I love that boy. I was talking to my sister about it later and she said, "oh, he's not looking forward to middle school?" And I said, "remember kindergarten?" In his last year of preschool he was so quietly adament about the fact that he was NOT going to kindergarten that even the director of the preschool, our beloved Miss Anna, said, "you're on your own with this" and laughed. He wasn't defiant, he was just completely sure that he would not be going to kindergarten....because, as he explained, he was going to be busy----busy with trains I believe.... Luckily he had a fabulous kindergarten teacher who quickly charmed him with trains in her room----unlike poor Owen's trainWRECK of a kindergarten teacher. I don't think a train set is going to do it this time though. I have a feeling that many middle school adventures await us.
The other night when I was feeling so grumpy I was in bed reading as was Leo in his room. He got up to go to the bathroom so I called him in and convinced him to lay down on the bed with me. We talked for a couple of minutes with our faces pressed right up to each other. I don't even know what we said I was so overwhelmed with his beauty. After a few minutes he got antsy so he gave me a soft little kiss and we both went back to reading.
Last night after Leo went to bed to read because there was "NOTHING to do," Owen for some reason asked if he could see the video with Leo giving orders. We found it and he just cackled and cackled and cackled. This is Leo at about the age he was insisting he wasn't going to kindergarten. Sometimes he would tell people he wasn't going to kindergarten and they would look at us questioningly, as if to day, "really, he isn't going to kindergarten, where is he going to go?" He totally convinced them. My sweet pea. I love him so.