Getting Hip To It All
Lil’ dude is getting hip to all this school business. As soon as we walked through the front doors of his school this morning, the crying and grabbing on to my leg started. He didn’t even wait to get into his classroom this time - as soon as I opened the door, the crying began.
Avery cried all the way to his classroom. I stayed with him just until Ms. Ashley was able to pick him up and coddle him. Unlike last week when I allowed Ms. Ashley to just snatch him out of my arms, this time I put him down and allowed him to be comfortable enough to let Ms. Ashley pick him up. The Swift Snatch method (letting Ms. Ashley just pry Avery out of my arms as he clung to me) proved a horror to our household so we’re trying a gentler approach. For 2 days after the Swift Snatch, Avery became so extremely clingy. He wanted to be held by only me all the time.
In other news, it’s time to order school pictures! We received the proofs today and surprisingly, they’re more than alright. What you see on the photos is a cute little boy with a great, big smile. What you don’t see on the photos is the river that was formed from the cute little boy’s tears, the grown men and women who jumped up and down, made silly faces and made even sillier noises just to get that cute little boy to smile, and the cute little boy’s mom who kept silently chanting, “Oh please don’t get snot on your vest. Oh please.”
October 7th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Avery has so much to look back on. You do a wonderful job.
Good memories.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
It’s really as much for me as it is for Avery. I haven’t done very much to exercise my brain so I’m afraid it’ll lose a lot of its ability to remember. I just don’t want to be chatting with my boy about his childhood and be like, “Oh yeah? That happened? Really? Man, I don’t remember that! Like at all!”
Lol.