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“A portrait {or two} of my child, once a week, every week, in 2014.”
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Izzy—Ready to get going for his first day of preschool, then exhausted after his first day of preschool.
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The first day was a success… in every way. Of course, I don’t know how he behaved while he was there. For all I know, he had a rough go of it… or perhaps he was socially unacceptable… maybe greedy with toys and not good about sharing??? But when I picked him up, he was in a delightful mood. When I asked him if he had fun at his first day of preschool, he replied, “Yehhhhhhhs!” So I believe him.
After such a difficult day for us all prior to his first day, I’m grateful to have had a bright and joyful one. His enthusiasm for this new chapter of life was contagious, and the perfect balm for the pain such a new chapter brought the day before.
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Here are the couple of Izzy-isms I managed to write down from this past week….
{When I changed the radio station from Mr. B’s station to my classical station}
“Hey, we were watching rock and roll, but now I hear dumb girl music.”
“I think I’m gonna take a bath before preschool, because I don’t want the kids to smell stinky-stink.”
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❤ Love those Izzyism. 🙂
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Your little boy has so much personality. What a joy he must be.
thank you, susan. he is, indeed. thank you for reminding me that even in pain, i have joy. it’s not that i didn’t realize it. it’s just that sometimes i focus on the pain because it sort of tends to scream the loudest. joy, though often stronger, is also often quieter. so i am grateful that, just now as i read your words, i realized just how much joy i have too.
oh my gosh….he is growing up and more adorable if that’s possible. i love that he loved school and i know from my own experience with him that he was an angel…seriously, he’s been taught well!…xo
thank you for that encouragement, sweet beth. this has been such a difficult stage. he’s sweeter than ever. but he’s testing every single emotion and reaction he can… feeling out this whole growing up / independence thing. sometimes i miss that little guy that was there back when you visited a year ago. but i know that this is just a stage. and even as he tests out all these other sometimes negative emotions or behaviors, he also grows more and more loving and kind… so i have hope that the hard parts will pass. when things go so smoothly for three years, it can be hard to watch them be typically three {which i hear from most moms is much harder than age two… and i believe it! i’ll never forget how you took care of him… and us… when you were here. i’m so grateful for that to this day. there is a special place in my heart for that particular time, and so it stands to reason that there is a special place in my heart for you because of it. ❤
Perfection. He is so cute. I remember the 3’s and 4’s being my most favorite stage, yet it also being the most challenging one. They are just starting to realize their little bits of independence and with that comes a lot of testing. Enjoy this time for it will fly by and before you know it you’ll be sending him off to his first day of first grade.
oh… how accurate you are. my favorite stage as well. i love that he can converse with us. but it also means that he’s able to test out just what he can do with words and what they mean. and with the ability to use words to convey things come the actions that follow. or vice versa. makes me long a little bit for the stage he was in about a year ago. it was probably my favorite yet. everyone kept telling me the threes are harder than the twos. so i have to wonder how “the terrible twos” ever got started. if the twos are terrible, i don’t even have a word for the threes. =)
but he sure is adorable right now. so the good somehow negates the not so good… and then some.
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