The Week I'm Missing

Thanks to a work trip and a road trip in the same week I've missed most of Declan's adventures. What I do know is he's loving school still. Every day Daddy picks him up he's hanging out with different kids. On Thursday morning when I walked him to school he could see that Jessica was walking into school a ways ahead of him. He yells out "JESSICA!!" and waves to her. Inside her Dad is helping her with her shoes and bag while asking Declan if he's wearing another cool shirt today. Which he was. He had his Canada shirt on. Declan sure is his own little man. On a FaceTime call this evening he told me that he played with his friends Jessica and Riff. So now there's another friend we know by name.

While I've been away Declan has been a good boy for Daddy (and Maddy in the morning for the walks to school). They boys have a movie date tomorrow and apparently some video game updates for Declan's phone. Glad they're having good times.

Bright Sky

It's true. I don't mind the early morning wake up on a Sunday morning when it's by my 4 1/2 year old and he's running into our room to tell me what's he's seen:

"I looked out my window and I saw the moon and it was big and its glowing!!"

"That's right Monkey, that's why people think the moon is magical."

As he's running away, back to his room: "it's glowing!"

6am Monday morning update: Declan just told me he had a long, scary dream last night. He said he was in the game called destroy balls. There was a giant Robot that was trying to destroy the world. Declan was trying to destroy the man that was inside the robot. He jumped inside and tried to get the man but the man got him and knocked him down. Then I got him because I got up.

Friday

Declan asked me to sit with him so he could tell me about his day.

"Daniel was gone so 'yay!'"

"He wasn't there today?"

"I think he ate too much, or maybe he threw up."

Two things Declan has learned at school:

1) "Daddy my hand is up so I can talk."

2) "Hands on top (places hands on his head) you stop."

2nd Call From School

This time it was because the Muffin Man is sick. In addition to his cold he was running a fever and when I got to the school he was sound asleep on the floor. Kids everywhere playing and he was sound asleep on his side on the carpet. I had to carry him to the car and when we got home he just laid on the chair with a big pillow and watched the Muppets. 

As if that wasn't bad enough I spoke to the Principal when I got to the school and he told me Declan had been having a rough week. Turns out Daniel has been being a bully the entire week. He's been in the office and they've been having "talks" with him to try and curb his behavior. Declan told me later that Daniel was chasing him this morning and kept trying to grab him. This is when I learned that Daniel is also in the Before/After program which means Declan is around this kid all day long. Thankfully Declan doesn't seem too bothered about any of it just yet and still wants to go to school. Really too bad this all starts so early.

Classic

Daddy: How was Daniel today?

Declan: He said sorry to me. I told him not to scratch me ever again.

........

Me: I see you picked out a library book to bring home. That's cool.

Declan: The teacher had to ding the name, then ding the book with the COMPUTER!!!!

(Not sure why he yelled computer but he seemed pretty excited about the process)

First Call Home from School

Finally Declan learned the name of his little friend at school: Jessica. Need to keep my eye out for her. Hope she's cool.

Going through the first Schoolastic book order forms last night and Declan told me about the Kissing Hand story book. He said the teacher read it to them in class. I can't believe we get so much detail when he's recapping the day. He also said they went to the music room. They were not allowed to touch the instruments because their fragile but the lady was singing and she said "Tah tah tee tee tah." Whoa the memories of school that came back to me when he shared that. I guess music class hasn't changed much.

I did get our first call home from the school Monday. Only the fourth day in. Seems the little boy in the cubby beside Declan was sitting in Declan's spot instead of his own. Declan was telling him where he was supposed to be sitting and the other child didn't like that and scratched Declan's back. A good four finger, between the shoulder blades, left a mark, scratch. He cried but he didn't retaliate and he got over it pretty fast. Teachers have to report everything (especially when it leaves a mark) so we got the call. Meant Declan's cubby was moved but even that doesn't seem to bother him. I did ask the teacher "was Declan being bossy?" to which she said no. Interested to see if he has any more to say about it after today.

He HAS to be an Old Soul

The Fruit by the Foot commercial comes on and it's the one where some kid is chewing on one end of the candy and as the camera pulls out you see that an alien, all dressed up in clothing and a wig is chewing on the other end.

Declan laughs.

Looks at me and says "That's funny cuz an alien wouldn't be eating candy."

He's killing me.

The three of us were walking over to the park this afternoon when Declan tells us about how the other day at school he was outside sitting under a tree reading a book with a little girl. 

And this evening we learned that he likes Wilco and The Ramones.