This has been a long long long long long long long etc. 3 weeks. I have gone a size up in my daily coffee intake and am proud of it.
What me and the Pman have done so far; 2 trips to the zoo, 2 different farms, the aquarium, the children’s museum, indoor playground, many parks, gran’s house, tryout for gymnastics, and I’m drawing a blank on the rest. I have only so much memory. We have been busy and honestly I am impressed. My guys behaviors have far exceeded my expectations. In one of our trips to the zoo I forget the cash, P wanted to ride the train for the first time ever, ATM was broken and mom lost. So trip #2 mom was trying to get on P’s good side. I am pretty sure he was still holding it against me. So P had 3 rides on the train and couldn’t have been happier. We had unexpected things come up and he handled them all so well.
I was terrrified about every other parents talk of regressions but my guy has been making strides every day. I am a big soppy mess of emotion with how in reality it has turned out. Today he decided his new sentences were gonna be “Once upon a time. In a land far far away.” Really I owe the movie companies thousands of dollars in speech therapy bills.
And yesterday was his first day of summer school. After a week of my non stop calls and thinly veiled threats to every person in authority in the district, I still had no idea who his teacher was and what I needed to bring for his first day. I walked him in and he turned into spider monkey. I could not shake him. Yes he can over-power me. Finally when I was able to unclench him from me he was hyperventilating and sobbing. I had to rush through 2 sets of glass double doors to escape. P tried to crawl after me sobbing. I got stuck in between the doors because of the vacuum effect. But somehow he regrouped, recovered and got 2 excellent reports from his teacher.
I am a parent braced for the worst, in survival mode. I for the first time, out on my own with my son, was able to enjoy our trips. By any means it wasn’t easy. But I was able to focus and capture the moments of joy in my memory forever. A joy as a parent I have never been able to experience.
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