Dominic now goes to school 3 days a week (Monday/Wednesday/Friday). I work from home on Wednesdays so I get to experience picking him up from school on a regular basis. I LOVE this! I love to hear what "projects" he worked on, who he played with, what he did during outside time and what new friends he has made. He is a VERY talkative kid and the rides home from school are no exception.
Last week I picked Dominic up and did the usual "How was your day?" He always starts out with "I was a good boy!!" Last year was rough and he RARELY had good days. Almost everyday there was an incident where he hit, pushed or threw sand/blocks/toys at another kid. It was a very stressful year and we tried so many different things to change his behavior, but nothing worked. Our Pediatrician kept telling us that we just needed to be patient. He was a normal 3 year old boy and would eventually grow out of this "phase". At the time we felt like he was NEVER going to grow out of it. Luckily the doc was right and he has been doing GREAT this year. He has yet to have a "bad" day (well there was one day where he cut a hole in another kid's shirt with scissors, but since he didn't hurt anyone we'll let that one slide for now) and he is SO PROUD of himself! We are also extremely proud of him. He is totally honest about it too. One day the teacher told my Mom when she picked him up that he had a "great" day! During the walk to the car, he told my Mom "Bachan, I had a little bit of a bad day, but it was a good day!" He apparently threw sand behind him, not knowing there was someone there. Since he didn't know, the teachers knew it wasn't intentional and so he didn't get punished for it, but I think he felt really bad. :( He's such a sweetheart!
Anyway, on this particular day, I asked him who he played with. He said "I played with Connie. We are getting married someday. We are going to go to Morgan Hill and show Emma how you get married." OMG! It is starting already! I don't even know where he got that idea!! It must have been Connie's doing. I don't know about this Connie chick. We'll have to see how long this lasts. But he also told Dave that night when he got home and mentioned it to my parents over the weekend. I guess it's better that he gets married than punches someone, right?!?! :)
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA Emma doesn't need to be shown how to get married! She has a crush on the boy down the street now. We need to do nothing to encourage this, though the two non-relative boys in her life we love to death we're not quite ready to be parents-in-law!
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