Out of the Box

My big boy is not what you would call a regular kid. I mean that in the best way possible. He is constantly surprising me with his insights, his creativity, and basically just his all-around awesome way of looking at the world. For example, he was watching “The Let’s Go Show” on Sprout the other day, and the host asked the audience what the pages in a book are made of. Without missing a beat, my boy calls out, “They are made of ideas!” When I asked if pages weren’t made of paper, he said, “I’m talking about the story in the book.” Not the first time he has blown me away.




Today was no different! Because of his late birthday, my big boy is beginning his second year of 4-year-old preschool. As bright as he is, he just has a little more growing up to do before we unleash him on unsuspecting kindergarten teachers. We went to his preschool open house this morning and met his very nice teachers. They had a little craft for all of the students to complete. Each child was to take a paper plate and draw his or her face on it, and then add yarn for the hair. My big guy did this admirably, using the right color crayon for his eyes and cutting short red yarn for the hair. Then, as a finishing touch, the teachers had cut out construction paper baseball caps for the boys and bows for the girls. His teacher asked him which he would wear, and without hesitation he chose a green baseball cap and a pink bow. I smiled at him and said, “OK, bud, think about this…which of those would you wear?” He insisted that he needed them both. He proceeded to glue the baseball cap over the yarn hair at the top of the plate, and then he added the pink bow to the bottom of the plate…where it looks exactly like a bowtie. The teachers got a big kick out of it, but I told them to batten down the hatches…there is plenty more where that came from.



I’m so excited about his school year, and I think he is too. He’s growing up so darned fast, but every day with him is a new adventure and a little miracle.