the swing of things.

Finally, after weeks of sick and holidays and visits with his dad, Henry and I have settled into a work/school routine.  I think since he started going to day care on December 9th, this is the second week he will actually go every day.  Of course, I'm probably jinxing it since there is still one more day left in the week. 

Henry has a locker at school where he puts his coat during the day.  We also use his locker to store a change of clothes for him and extra snacks.  Up until this week, he has always demanded to clear out his locker at the end of the day.  I believe it was his way of telling me we shouldn't leave anything behind because he didn't plan on coming back. Monday afternoon he saw the items in his locker and asked if we would be taking them home.  I reminded him that we didn't need to take those things home because they were supplies for when he is at school.  I braced for the onslaught of, "but whyyyyy's" and "I don't want to leave it heeeeeeeeere's" and "but I neeeeeeeed it at hoooooooome's" but instead what I got was a simple response.  "Oh.  Okay.  Bye bye supplies!" as he closed his locker. 

He's never had very dramatic goodbye's in the morning but this week I've noticed that he barely sticks around for a hug and a kiss before taking off to play. 

The other night before bedtime he was quiet so I asked what he was thinking and he told me he was sad because he missed his friends at school.  More importantly, he told me their names.  Before, when I asked him the names of his friends he would respond with, "boys and girls," as if he didn't want to bother learning their names. 

When I picked him up on Tuesday I interrupted their story time.  Several boys and girls got in trouble because instead of waving and blowing kisses goodbye from their seats as they are told to do, they jumped up and ran to give Henry goodbye hugs.  He didn't try to climb up my leg to avoid the contact with the children.

He got invited to the birthday party of one of his classmates.  Okay so it's my cousin's kid but still, he'll know other kids there and I'll be able to catch up with my cousins instead of obsessing over my kid playing all by himself with the other kids playing together, around him.

Whew.