Tue 27 Oct 2009 |
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Today was Grant's first school program. I was so excited to see him sing. All I'd managed to get out of him was that they were going to sing “itsy bitsy spider.” I wasn't fool enough to think that HE would be singing... I can't get him to sing along with me at home except on very very rare occasions. Now, strike one against me as “cool preschool mom” was that I did not send him to school in his costume. He's on an antibiotic and has the diapers and conjoining diaper rash to prove it. We had just cleared up one painful rash... and with his costume being a bit difficult to pull on and off... I wasn't about to tempt fate that he'd be a giraffe with a diaper full of burning poop for several hours. So... at 11am Grandma, Andy and I showed up at Grant's preschool... giraffe costume in hand. I went to the classroom to put on his costume. The tears started immediately. The clinging on to mom started immediately. All I could think was “this child is sick again” because he was crying so hard and clinging so much. Bracing myself mentally for the onslaught of the heinous pig flu... Grandma Willis, Andy and I headed to the gym for the program... leaving a sobbing, inconsolable Grant behind. When the two-year-olds filed into the gym... mine was the one being carried by the teacher. Yep. That's my child. He was still sobbing. Eventually the teacher needed to set things up for the program so... Grant came to me... still crying. He sat on my lap and cried THE.ENTIRE.PROGRAM. Yep. I'm that mom. Now, it's not like the other children were singing along and playing and everything. Though one little boy did every single hand motion for every song. Very impressive! But mine was the only one who sat in mom's lap and cried the whole time. Priceless. Of course – as soon as they sang the four songs it was snack time. Grant hopped off my lap.. ran over to the table... and happily ate his cookie... with a fork. He's not sick... so the pig flu may still get us (unless it already has).
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