Growing up

So Jack has started first grade. (Due to a bad memory card, I've lost lots of pictures. Including his first day of school. Big bummer.) Anyway, it's been an adjustment for everybody, but probably most for me. I have been seriously missing my little sidekick and buddy.

We are lucky enough to have a neighborhood school that we can walk to (he still holds my hand, by the way, and I LOVE it). So every morning and afternoon we are outside enjoying the nice weather and chatting, and I hear it all on those walks. (In fact, that's when I learned about the little boy in his class who was calling girls "the B word" and telling them they are S-E-X-Y.)

Anyway, so after school the other day, we are talking and he says that a little girl at school is being mean to him. And I asked what she was doing and he said she keeps making this face at him:




And then he told me that her best friend came up to him and said, "she has a crush on you." I asked him what that meant and he said he wasn't sure, but did I ever have a crush on Daddy? I said yes, I had a crush on Daddy and that it just means she likes you. He thought about that for a minute and then said, "Eeew. Does that mean I have to marry her?"


It is so fun to see him learning so much and growing up. It is interesting to see him encountering different social situations and figuring out who he is and how he fits in. I love him and I love being his mom.