ON THE DRIVE HOME... It has happened

When we first started taking the kids to daycare, or school as we call it, Eliot and Naomi both had a really tough time. Eliot sat in his corner in the bathroom, crying for, as he put it, 40 minutes.

I understand now about the significance of the number 40 in the bible. 40 days, 40 nights, 40 years in the desert. 40, biblically speaking, means a VERY VERY VERY long time. Not actually 40 days or 40 nights, it just means that the people experiencing the pain and agony of that moment experienced it for a very long time.

Eliot was in great pain and agony for 40 minute everyday, we still haven't quite figured out what happened, or even what motivated him to end his pain, I like to think it was one of the young women he has grown fond of lately.

Naomi, on the other hand, simply didn't talk, she didn't interact with the kids, just sat around sucking her thumb and holding her blanket and sitting, I assume, in the lap of her teacher.

We discovered Naomi's plight one day when the teacher asked me, "Does Naomi have any words?" This shocked and stunned me, since Naomi is nothing but a jumbling, mumbling, stumbling word filled fool when she is with us. Does she have any words??!!

We thought for sure it would be Naomi who would take to daycare long before Eliot would, his leukemia and all, but we were wrong, Naomi is the one who had the most trouble.

Every morning when I arrived Teacher Edith would always say, someday soon they will not want to go home, they will want to stay here and will cry when you pick them up to go home.

Well, it happened, mostly to Eliot. I picked them up on Wednesday of last week and Eliot wouldn't have any of it. He and his new friend Madeline, Maddy I was told is her name, were running around the jungle gym sliding down the slide having a ball. When I told him it was time to go he cornered himself in the crook of the curvy slide, stuck out his lip and started pouting and crying. He didn't want to go, he wanted to stay with his kids.

Naomi, it seems has not had the same reaction, but she did need to get pulled off the slide in order to get to the car.

So, the combination of being outside, and new friends has finally taken hold of the kids and they are excited to go to school on Monday morning and can't stand coming home in the afternoons. It is very cool!

Be well,
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Sanguinetti A! said…
That is so great!
9:35 AM
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