Peta’s Domain

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My baby has turned four! How did he grow up so quickly? He started kindy this year and is loving it. i thought he might fuss, at first, about being left because I had not left him much. He would never go into children’s church without screaming the place down but he was so happy to be at school like the big kids. He didn’t mind a bit when I left, not even a whimper. Made me feel very wanted - not.

After a couple of weeks he asked me to drop him off with Miki outside her school, which is right next door to his kindy, so he could run down to his kindy by himself! After all, Miki and Alee just get dropped outside their schools. Mum doesn’t take them to their classrooms and he is a big school kid now too. He was a bit upset when I insisted that I had to take him in (’See all your friends have their parent with them too’). After a few weeks his tactics changed and he wanted me to leave him outside the gate and he would take himself into the class. Thankfully another obstacle was in his way. The gate is like a pool gate with a latch that is too high for him to reach. ‘Sorry Ethan, you can’t reach the latch. I’ll have to open the gate for you and come in too.’

He is learning a lot. He can write his name, semi-legibly. He can read numbers and count up to twenty-ten (took some time to convince him that it was actually called thirty). He sings lots of songs and has a special ‘goodbye’ song that he would sing to cheer me up when I was a bit grumpy. Sometimes I wouldn’t even realise I seemed grumpy until he started singing it. His favourite book is about a bear who is having a birthday party but wants all the cake to himself so he only invited the friends who can’t fit through the door. While he is busy scoffing the cake inside his friends are partying outside and he realises this when he has finished the cake but he has gotten so fat he can’t get out through the door. Very cute book.

He has a few friends but his best friend is a little girl called Karis. I figure he picked a girl because he is used to playing with and being bossed around by his two older sisters. There is another little boy he plays with called Bryce. Asiri refers to them as Carrots and Rice! There is also Patrick and Alisha who he talks about often. The teachers think he is a very sweet, quiet boy. I’m not so sure about the quiet though, I don’t see it at home!

They had their school photos taken a few weeks ago. They were supposed to be done on the Thursday but got rained out so they postponed it till the next Monday. On the weekend Ethan fell over and badly grazed his cheek! So his first school photo has him with a bit red scar on his face! Nice!!!

He doesn’t like school holidays. He asks me nearly every day if he can go to school today and is very disappointed when the answer is no. I know this attitude won’t last long so I have to make the most of it as well as making the most of the time with him at home. Won’t be long and he’ll be a big boy like Joshy.

Category: Family, Kids