Sunday was Jacob's first day of primary. I walked him down to primary and asked for a kiss. After he smacked me on the lips he turned back around and threw his blanket at me. His lifeline. His best friend. I looked at the primary president and with great hope said something along the lines of "growing up in the world." Little did I know.
I peaked in on him about 30 minutes into primary and he was nowhere to be seen. All of the sudden he came barreling around the corner, with a teacher right behind him. "Hi mom!" Drat, I was trying to be discreet. I hid around another corner trying to see if he was even going to sit in his seat. Nope. He did hide in the cabinet under the microphone, run into the bathroom, climb the water fountain, and "help" every child find the picture that was hidden in the game they were playing. His OCD tendencies were very apparent that day.
To every teacher, counselor, and leader in primary, thank you for not tossing him out the window on Sunday. I KNOW he is a handful. Rather 5 or 6 handfuls. We as parents have not given up on him. We do try to teach him patience, reverence, and anger management. We do hope that he will understand the importance of sitting in his seat in a few short weeks. We know that he is very hard to understand, and that when he is not understood he gets very frustrated. Thank you for your love and patience and your willingness to serve our little ones.
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He is also super cute! I really got a kick out of his spunk on Sunday...
That post made me smile : ) I remember you wrestling that little guy in the foyer before he was even 1! I love spunky personalities, it can be frustrating now while he's still learning rules but once he figures it all it that spunk will take him far : )
It's always the hand fulls kids that I fall in love with the most! His teachers will be crying when he leaves them for sadness by the end of the year...I promise. The ones that make us work the hardest are the ones that steal our hearts the deepest.
Ah, sunbeams! I had some jumpy ones. Mine were mostly girls though. I brought hotpads that looked like bunnies. I told them that the momma bunnies had to sit on the babies to keep them safe and warm. It actually worked...a little, sort of, sometimes, off and on. One of the better ideas I had in Sunbeams. The girls felt kind of obligated to keep those babies warm! not sure how that would translate to Jacob.
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