Thomas

Thomas starts Pre-K on Monday. As in the “grade” before he starts kindergarten. As any mother can attest to, this seems completely mind blowing. I look at him and I know that he is older, but I am just not really sure how it happened. I have gotten where I enjoy him so much in a way that is new. He is becoming such a real little person that has his own thoughts, ideas, likes, dislikes, and sense of humor.

The other day we were in Target and he picked up a snack pack of mandarin oranges. I was checking out and he held them up and asked me if we could buy them. I told him “no,” and he looked at me and said, “but mom, I loved these when I was a kid. I’d really like to get them.” The check out girl and I totally cracked up. I still didn’t buy them because he doesn’t actually like them. Then the next day he told me about something that he did when he was a kid and then said “because I’m not really a kid anymore, I am a big boy.”

He went with my mom up to Cedar Key for a couple of days and on the drive up he looked out the window and said, “Yep, we’re in the middle of nowhere, we’re almost to Meme and Papa’s house.”  Not sure where he got that from, but he IS right.

It’s the things like these that keep me going on the days when he is acting like a boy trying to figure out who he is.  Those days when I think about wanting to sell him I just remember the times when he keeps me laughing and I choose not to put him on e-bay.