Oct 10th, 2007
House, move, preschool friends
We signed the papers on our house yesterday - we actually get it Friday. We were going to move next weekend but we decided to just do it this weekend. Partially to be settled once and for all and partially because the house across the street from our rental was broken into yesterday. We just decided it would be best to just get it over with and get settled for Colin’s and all our sakes.
Holden the super chunk.
Colin has been doing better in preschool. I have dropped him off a couple of times and the crying is loud at first, but he settles down in less and less time. When I pick him up he is in a great mood. In fact yesterday I was early so I spied on him a bit at the playground. The little bugger was going down the slide backwards - he won’t even go down the slide when I take him to the park.
Today I had to sub for another mom so I got to see him in school. He is so cute, he wants to be friends with some of the bigger kids. He told me to move away from him when we were playing in the gym and then he went over to these big kids, Jack West and Cooper - they are literally a head taller than Colin. He kept standing next to them, trying to join in - we were playing a game where we all had to hold hands. It was going pretty well until everyone turned to run back and they kinda ran right over Colin. It is hard to see though, because the two boys are pretty rowdy and already friends so they don’t always notice Colin - that is hard to watch as a mom, but I am glad to see Colin making an effort to make friends.
It is also amazing to hear all these things Colin talks about now since he learns at school and I don’t know exactly what they are doing. He talks about magic, getting or not getting stickers depending on if you are good or not, what other kids did, etc. Yesterday after school we were playing trains and Colin said “Mommy do you want to be my very special helper and help me put the train together?” and then “Great job mommy”
Holden is still talking a lot and scooting around with his army crawl. He now notices that when he throws something off his high chair it might be on the floor so he looks for it. He definitely has some seperation issues - but this week alone will have been with a babysitter 3 of the 5 mornings this week so hopefully he is getting used to it.