Today is the "firtieff" (30th) and I had to guess how many sunny days they have had in the week. I said 3, and could have been wrong because he said, "I fink 2 or three I'm not sure."
As to how the first part of his day went : "After dat, I don't know but then I remember. We were gonna do centers but we did this first. the triangles had to be circled then we looked inside the little thing. and then we and at the first page. It had a ball, a ball, and a square. We had to circle all of the balls. The second page had a square, a square, a rectangle, and a square. We had to the mark the ones that were the same. Page three had these hat fingies. There were these colored hats things. We had to circle the hat that was the same..." Then he just started rambling a bunch of other stuff that really didn't make much sense.
So, he had me guess what center he went to today? I guessed computers and he said "Nooooo, bwocks... and we made trains. Then _________ comes over. He's a mean wittle kid that pushes us around. I asked, "When you get pushed around what do you do?" He says, "Tell the teacher. Wait daddy you're not supposed to be writing this yet. HA! I forgot I forgot.. after centers is lunch break time. so you can go ahead and write that."I was eating my nennynems (M&M's), which you packed (and he wryly looked at mommy) that I didn't know that you even had. Thanks, Mommy. He (the mean wittle kid) tried to eat one."
Me: "What did you do.?"
Xavier: "I tell him, No you can't have them!" But then he (the mean wittle kid) just said, 'heh heh heh, No, I will eat them. You won't tell me what to do. Cuz I'm the boss of everybody.'"
At this point Mommy is starting to giggle. Xavier looks at her and says "I'm not making this up"
At some point today, I'm not sure when, they were making a family tree in class. The stem part (truck and branches) were done by Miss Holt. Yesterday they painted the leaves and today they added apples to the tree. Each apple represents someone in his immediate family. Xavier explains, " We had to tell her how many people were in our house and she put that many on there... I got my mom, dad, and me and my brother. I could only put four people and could not put any animal.
I also learned, later in the evening, that he started crying at recess today. When asked why he answered, because there were kids swinging and the chains are gonna break and they'll fly through the air, with the chains fwapping in the air (And his arms are flailing about representing the fwapping chains) and they'll land way over there (he points) to where mommy drops me off.
Mommy also thinks that Gideon is being left out, so on the days he goes to Mothers Day Out I need to include his story as well. I will say that the first part of the day is not so good because the boy throws a fit not wanting me to leave him there. Of course, this pulls on my heart strings (which my wife says I don't have anyway). They all reassure me that he stops crying after about 2 minutes. But what kind of emotional scars is he going to have from his daddy abandoning him to the clutches of Miss Winda and Miss Kistee.
Anyway, when I ask him how his day went he doesn't really answer me. I ask if he learned a new song and he shyly begins singing something along the lines of
da roooles, da roooles
da roooles of da casswoom
keep you hands and feet, keep you hands and feet to youself
keep you hands and feet, keep you hands and feet to youself
and some other verse that I can't remember now. If I can't get him to sing it tomorrow I will post it.
Today he brings home a book that he, Miss Winda, and Miss Kistee made about him. Here it is:
