I’m just thinking about my little Gabe a lot lately since this kindergarten thing started. I get sad sometimes when me and Zoe do fun things like eat cookies while we grocery shop or go to the zoo without him. Every day I pick him up and can’t wait to hear what he is going to say about his day. I get so excited when he tells me how much he likes “doing work” or tells me the new French words he learned or tells me about a new friend he has made (he came home with a friends phone number scrawled out on a paper and asked me to call him for a play date). I freak out when he says he doesn’t like gym or hints that maybe someone wasn’t as nice to him as I think they should be. Only to find that the next day, gym is his favorite class and mr. meanie-head is his new best friend. I guess I will get used to the ups and downs of kindergarten life eventually.
Today when I picked him up he told me that Dora and Diego were baby shows. I asked him if that was his opinion or if a friend at school had told him that. He told me that he flew a rocket ship to where the creators (of Dora and Diego) lived and asked them if it was a baby show and they confirmed that it was. I told him that I happened to like Dora and Diego. He countered with “Well, it is a show for babies and girls!” It finally came out that his friend Eli also thinks it is a baby show. I told him that I didn’t think the show was a baby show and I was still going to watch it and he could too if he wanted. Then I hear in a little high-pitched voice from the back seat “Baby!” It was such a Dan thing to do I couldn’t help but laugh.
Here is my kindergarten cutie:
