If I'm a really lucky person, one day Jacob and I'll be old and living together in a nursing home and spend our days rereading our family blog reliving the "good ole days" :)
So, this post is purely for me. Almost through week three of three kids at three locations and a 36 hour knock-out round with mastitis, I'm pausing to note a few things of late. Today, I focus on Jack.
Jack
- He's so persistent. He will negotiate with you until you will do anything to make him stop talking. He's very smart that way.
- He's intensely focused. Jack has had a love of firetrucks from before he could appropriately say that word. He spent 3 Halloweens as a firefighter. His interests have evolved as he's aged. He wants to know about real fires and he's been especially interested in the Great Chicago Fire, with several books currently checked out on the topic. We also have Fire Disaster and Disasters: Natural and Man-made Catastrophes through the Centuries in the house.
It all starts so innocently and then you find you have a child who is becoming more and more fascinated with the darker side of rescues: the danger, the potential death. He is so curious about the events of September 11th. He found an In Memoriam DVD Jacob's mom bought years back and he's always asked questions since he saw a firefighter on the cover. We've always said that this was a sad story and a movie he couldn't watch until he was older. Well, when you let your child flip through books like Fire Disaster he ends up asking questions about all kinds of events. He has the basic facts of 9/11 and he pleads to learn more. And we just keep saying no but he wears us down for small details. Man, this parenting thing is hard!
Jack still hasn't had to realize that some people want to hurt other people. At least with his fire disaster interests, he's mostly learning about natural disasters and unfortunate accidents. With his knowledge of 9/11, he knows that two planes crashed into the World Trade Centers, but he's never even asked why the planes crashed. I think he just assumes it was an accident.
I love to learn about real events too, so he comes about his interests honestly, but I also want to protect his innocence for as long as I can.
What a piece of work this kid is. In his first 12 days of Kindergarten, we've heard all of the below:
So, this post is purely for me. Almost through week three of three kids at three locations and a 36 hour knock-out round with mastitis, I'm pausing to note a few things of late. Today, I focus on Jack.
- He's so persistent. He will negotiate with you until you will do anything to make him stop talking. He's very smart that way.
- He's intensely focused. Jack has had a love of firetrucks from before he could appropriately say that word. He spent 3 Halloweens as a firefighter. His interests have evolved as he's aged. He wants to know about real fires and he's been especially interested in the Great Chicago Fire, with several books currently checked out on the topic. We also have Fire Disaster and Disasters: Natural and Man-made Catastrophes through the Centuries in the house.
It all starts so innocently and then you find you have a child who is becoming more and more fascinated with the darker side of rescues: the danger, the potential death. He is so curious about the events of September 11th. He found an In Memoriam DVD Jacob's mom bought years back and he's always asked questions since he saw a firefighter on the cover. We've always said that this was a sad story and a movie he couldn't watch until he was older. Well, when you let your child flip through books like Fire Disaster he ends up asking questions about all kinds of events. He has the basic facts of 9/11 and he pleads to learn more. And we just keep saying no but he wears us down for small details. Man, this parenting thing is hard!
Jack still hasn't had to realize that some people want to hurt other people. At least with his fire disaster interests, he's mostly learning about natural disasters and unfortunate accidents. With his knowledge of 9/11, he knows that two planes crashed into the World Trade Centers, but he's never even asked why the planes crashed. I think he just assumes it was an accident.
I love to learn about real events too, so he comes about his interests honestly, but I also want to protect his innocence for as long as I can.
- "I'm a super reader." "How do you know?" I ask. "Because my nose is buried in my book."
- After drinking chocolate milk on the first day, we told Jack he should drink only white milk since chocolate milk has a lot of sugar. We only had to say it once and Jack has been clearly instructing the milk-passer-outers that he'll be having no more of that chocolate milk :) I love that he's health conscious for his own sake.
- He nonchalantly comments that one of the rules is to love your teachers, but "I mean I already do" :)
- When asked to draw something about his family, he drew the twin towers on fire. (Chin drops to my lap.)
But no, no Mom do not be concerned, see, remember that was what happened on your first day of college, so, see that was something about my family... - On that note, he also was asked to draw what was in his heart. While thankfully, I don't think he shared this drawing with the class, his heart had the Titanic, the twin towers, and the 2009 Australian brush fires, because those were all sad things and that was what was in his heart. Just imagine the looks on Jacob's and my faces when he recounted that part of his day!?!
- He's always happy to share what he had for lunch or snack, in detail. He's eating the school lunch provided by Revolution Foods. We are generally pleased with the healthier fare offered at his school, though, I still stand by my controversial stance that goldfish, animal crackers, graham crackers, etc. really serve no healthful purpose as a children's snack. I love that Jack's school has parents signing up for the daily morning snack and has specifically asked for these to be healthy and, ideally, fruits/veggies.
- He pulled out his class snack calendar and was able to read almost every student's name based on probably having seem them written in his class, his knowledge of first letter sounds, and, because he's obviously gotten to know all of these new friends. This last piece makes me happy.
- He's staying two days for an extra hour for soccer and it made me smile to see him running around in the gym at 4:45 today with such a happy look on his face :)
I love this one-of-a-kind rascal.
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