We have been prepping Jack for a couple of days now that this summer camp is like school. School is a place where kids go to learn , do great projects with their teachers and most importantly, mamas and papas are not there with them ( Da Da DUUUUMMMM)
Jack really is attached to us ( and really, who wouldn't be? Have you met Brian and myself? We are pretty funny people) and whenever we tell Jack that he is going somewhere, the immediate question is " Will you be there with me ?"
He kept asking us this as we were telling him about his summer camp and when we responded No, he would say, then I do not want to go to school.
Today was Jack's first day.
If I went with, there would have been waterworks and the loving phrase of " I want to be with Mamaaaa!" (maybe)
Brian dropped him off and Jack was the super champ of all super champs. The story goes that he walked right in, saw the teacher, went to his new friends and didn't mind that Brian left. As Brian told me this at work, I cried the whole time. This might have been the first time that I have cried tears of pride. I am so proud of Jack . Just because he knew what to do, and is such a big boy of going to this summer camp like it was no big deal. Like all big boys do. We were betting that for sure Jack wasn't going to like it and maybe by the third time, he would get used to it. I am happily mistaken on this one.
I keep thinking of Jack all day here and finding it hard to work today. I keep thinking of what is he saying, what is he doing, hopefully that he is eating lunch.
I would love to be a fly on the wall if they gave him carrots today and just watch the conversation between Jack and the teacher.
"Don't you want carrots Jack?"
"No, no thank you. Not right now."
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