Boys in October
The weather has been so cold and rainy. I know it is fall, but I like October for its golden afternoons of sunshine and its cool edge, not its temperatures of 40 degrees and endless rain. We even had some SNOW on the ground last week, though it must have melted before we got up in the morning. Still, I HEARD about it, and that’s bad enough!
Today it will be warmer – low 70s. We have a Halloween party to attend on the 31st, so I am hoping that the cool weather will stay away. I am sure it will be an outdoor party. I was a little hesitant to give up trick-or-treating for a party, but trick-or-treating isn’t easy for us anyway since we do not live in a neighborhood. Last year, the squeaker and the pipsqueak trick-or-treated in my sister’s neighborhood with their cousins, and a lovely time was had by all. I hate to give that up this year, but I think I’d feel more attached to the tradition if it was our own neighborhood. Plus, our friends seemed very eager for us to come to their party, and they have been guests at several at our recent parties. So we shall see how it works out.
The squeaker’s papa has made him a very elaborate mummy costume, complete with an Egyptian headdress. The squeaker had said he wanted to be a mummy, and his papa thought it was a great idea. With lots of glue and gemstones (on the headdress), I’m thinking that weight of the costume might mean that the squeaker won’t be able to move as speedily as usual, which would be nice for a change. We have not done much for the pipsqueak because he doesn’t get the whole Halloween thing yet. We have plenty of ready-made costumes – giraffe, pirate, frog. However, when I asked if he’d rather be a giraffe or a pirate, he said, “Hippo.” We will see about that. He does like hippos quite a lot.
The squeaker has been going off to school each day without a problem, though sometimes he still gets anxious at the last minute. He’s bringing home a lot of little projects, and I am a little concerned that he isn’t taking them very seriously. His drawing skills are definitely not his strong point, and that’s OK with me, but he seems to be doing a lot of scribbling, and that seems a bit worrisome. I’m not actually worried about him, but rather about how he might be perceived at school. The truth is that he’s much more verbal than visual, and he doesn’t really care about this little drawing projects (drawing his family, for example – I think he drew one big orange circle with two orange circles inside it). I don’t think this matters a whit with regard to his long-term success, or anything else that really matters. However, I think it does make him look as though he might have cognitive developmental delays (which he doesn’t -- he can draw reasonably well at home), and I don’t want this to affect his relationships and success in school. My instinct is to encourage him to do better but not to take it very seriously at this point, but I am a little concerned about how disengaged he is from these assignments.
I think that there is a type of student – earnest, engaged, eager -- who does well in school because teachers respond well to that personality type. But the squeaker is none of these things. He is usually caught up in his own world, and he is not very eager to do work that doesn’t particularly appeal to him. Any earnest effort is disrupted by a lack of focus. To me, this all seems very normal in a kid his age, but the demands of kindergarten are more intense than that.
The pipsqueak has been saying many hilarious things. Though he has near-perfect grammar, his cutest sentences are the ones he doesn’t get quite right. He’ll run around the house looking for someone and saying, “Where is ‘em?” Cracks me up every time. There really isn’t anything he can’t say now; he’s become very conversational. The other day he paused in his nursing to say to me, “My baby. Pat.” It took me a minute to realize that I was being instructed to pat him and say “my baby” in a loving tone. He definitely knows what he wants in life, that kiddo.
Today it will be warmer – low 70s. We have a Halloween party to attend on the 31st, so I am hoping that the cool weather will stay away. I am sure it will be an outdoor party. I was a little hesitant to give up trick-or-treating for a party, but trick-or-treating isn’t easy for us anyway since we do not live in a neighborhood. Last year, the squeaker and the pipsqueak trick-or-treated in my sister’s neighborhood with their cousins, and a lovely time was had by all. I hate to give that up this year, but I think I’d feel more attached to the tradition if it was our own neighborhood. Plus, our friends seemed very eager for us to come to their party, and they have been guests at several at our recent parties. So we shall see how it works out.
The squeaker’s papa has made him a very elaborate mummy costume, complete with an Egyptian headdress. The squeaker had said he wanted to be a mummy, and his papa thought it was a great idea. With lots of glue and gemstones (on the headdress), I’m thinking that weight of the costume might mean that the squeaker won’t be able to move as speedily as usual, which would be nice for a change. We have not done much for the pipsqueak because he doesn’t get the whole Halloween thing yet. We have plenty of ready-made costumes – giraffe, pirate, frog. However, when I asked if he’d rather be a giraffe or a pirate, he said, “Hippo.” We will see about that. He does like hippos quite a lot.
The squeaker has been going off to school each day without a problem, though sometimes he still gets anxious at the last minute. He’s bringing home a lot of little projects, and I am a little concerned that he isn’t taking them very seriously. His drawing skills are definitely not his strong point, and that’s OK with me, but he seems to be doing a lot of scribbling, and that seems a bit worrisome. I’m not actually worried about him, but rather about how he might be perceived at school. The truth is that he’s much more verbal than visual, and he doesn’t really care about this little drawing projects (drawing his family, for example – I think he drew one big orange circle with two orange circles inside it). I don’t think this matters a whit with regard to his long-term success, or anything else that really matters. However, I think it does make him look as though he might have cognitive developmental delays (which he doesn’t -- he can draw reasonably well at home), and I don’t want this to affect his relationships and success in school. My instinct is to encourage him to do better but not to take it very seriously at this point, but I am a little concerned about how disengaged he is from these assignments.
I think that there is a type of student – earnest, engaged, eager -- who does well in school because teachers respond well to that personality type. But the squeaker is none of these things. He is usually caught up in his own world, and he is not very eager to do work that doesn’t particularly appeal to him. Any earnest effort is disrupted by a lack of focus. To me, this all seems very normal in a kid his age, but the demands of kindergarten are more intense than that.
The pipsqueak has been saying many hilarious things. Though he has near-perfect grammar, his cutest sentences are the ones he doesn’t get quite right. He’ll run around the house looking for someone and saying, “Where is ‘em?” Cracks me up every time. There really isn’t anything he can’t say now; he’s become very conversational. The other day he paused in his nursing to say to me, “My baby. Pat.” It took me a minute to realize that I was being instructed to pat him and say “my baby” in a loving tone. He definitely knows what he wants in life, that kiddo.
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