Last Wednesday was "Take a Grown Up to Lunch Day" for Andrew (Matthew's is this wednesday). It was fun to go and see Andrew at school trying to find his way through the hot lunch line. :) He gets to eat lunch at school once every other wednesday when he goes the full early release day (if that makes sense). He has every other wednesday off. He loves to take hot lunch ~ and get chocolate milk! (a treat!)
As I was watching Andrew finding his way through the hot lunch process in the cafeteria I realized in a new way that this is really his first time off on his own. He always has Matthew to follow and tell him what to do (or his mama) and in Pre-school he had Claire who would take care of him (literally getting up during circle time to get a tissue and wipe his nose). And while I knew that, it was different to be there and see him doing it. And while there's a big part of me that would love to just shadow him through his days and help him along, I know that this is really good for him. This is how he will grow confidence in himself and know he can do it "all by himself."
We hit the playground afterwards where he showed me how he can do the monkey bars and Katie jumped right in with the big kids with no fear (as usual). She was NOT happy when it was time to go.
A little Andrew side story that I want to remember. Tonight at dinner Kaitlin was getting in trouble for something. Dan was talking to her and she was making her sad face (which was completely fake and for effect) but it made Andrew sad to see her sad and so the whole time Dan is trying to reprimand her, Andrew is sitting across the table from her trying to comfort her by saying, "It's okay, Kaitlin, It's okay, Kaitlin, It's okay, Kaitlin." Dan finally had to tell him to stop so he could finish talking to her. It was so sweet.
So Andrew.
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