ARRRGH! & WOW!
It’s TOOOOO strategyguidey here! I’ve been working hard editing all weekend, with only a few short breaks with my family. I’m tired and I’m nowhere near done. That fact is hard to face right now. It’s going to be a very long week with many, many deadlines. (I shouldn’t even be writing now.)
My friends are arriving/have arrived home from Burning Man and I don’t have time to call them to see how they are and if they’re safe and happy and pleased with their experiences. This makes me frustrated!
It was a big weekend for Big Boy milestones. Lucas got over his fear of jumping off the diving board when he saw TishTash jumping in. He now swims in the deep end of the pool fearlessly. I’m very proud of him. It’s exciting to see him leap into space and splash into the water because I remember how gloriously thrilling that felt when I was a child.
Lucas also decided that today was the day to take the training wheels off his bike: It’s time to learn to ride without them, he says. Lucas’s buddies don’t use training wheels anymore, so he’s not going to either. Ian and Lucas practiced riding without them in the grassy field at the end of our street. Lucas mildly accepted the bumps he got and isn’t afraid of falling off, he says. Practice, practice, practice is all he needs.
We also flipped his bed upside down so that he’s now sleeping on the upper platform (the bed is meant to do that: the child can sleep either low or high). Now he has a nifty little fortlike space under his bed. We rearranged all the furniture in his room and brought a desk in there. It looks more like a boy’s room now, like he’ll be comfortable using it and spending more time in there now. (But I’m not painting over the fish mural for at least another year: First he has to decide on what he REALLY wants his room to look like. Right now he changes his mind all the time: airplanes! No, space ships! No, cars! No, bugs!
I guess all these Big Boy changes are happening because school is about to start. He’s starting his second year of Kindergarten and will be one of the big kids. Wow.
