First Day!
September 3, 2010 – 2:44 pmLast semester it felt like Matthew and i were tag team parenting. Most of the days I taught we would only see each other when we passed off Miles as one of us went to work and the other headed home. This year my schedule is great. I’m teaching Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:45 to 5:20 which means Miles can go to day care while I teach.
Matthew and I were pretty nervous about how he would handle the change but he handled it like a champ. The first morning I said “Okay Miles I’m going to work now” and he responded “I’m just going to stay here and play for a while. Later that day I came to pick him up and said “Let’s go home and see Papa”. He ran to the toys saying that he didn’t want to go. I said, “But what about Papa?” His response, “But what about me?”
Outside of loving his new found freedom from his parents, he has become a world class barefoot runner. He loves running down our sandy streets and seems impervious to cactus, yucca and the dreaded acacia, commonly known as cat claw. The picture below shows him taunting cat claw with his fleshy little toes. That boy has guts I tell you!
In addition to running barefoot, some fun new Miles -isms include:
Using “last day” instead of yesterday
Singing Bill Monroe’s “Working on a Building” all day, everyday.
Asking “How’s your day?”
Waving to every kid he sees and saying “Hi, I’m Miles”
Boy I love this little guy.
