Yesterday was Bryon’s first day of “real” school. He went to pre-school last year, but this is the BIG TIME!
I will write more about this later on in the morning but I wanted to share a funny little story with you now.
So we are at the school and we are waiting to see if they are going to let him start today because there was a small issue with his shot records. (resolved with no extra shots for my big boy: Praise God!!!!) I’m fanatically taking pictures and making faces at him as he is standing in the office with his Dad, then I see it. That infamous little wiggle he does, the potty dance. He taps on Kenny’s leg and tells him that he has to go and Kenny looks panicked for about two milliseconds until I mouth the “do you want me to take him?” question. Bry doesn’t even wait for his Dad’s answer, he comes right to me and says ” I gotta go!”
So I’m looking for this bathroom and I can’t find it, I ask the school nurse and she gives me this look like “I have NO idea where it IS!” Luckily, a passerby overheard us and directed us the right way. ;0)
We get to the bathroom, everything is great! He likes the colors, thinks it’s really cool that the lights just “come on like that!” He enters the stall, I hear the door slide shut and the lock click, then it happens… I hear the same thing in reverse followed by this: “Nini, (very serious, mind you) I don’t think I can stay here today, I need to go home, now.” I looked at him and asked him why he couldn’t stay at school today. His response was barely a whisper, “The toilets are automatic flushers!” His eyes were huge, THIS was a very serious problem! ( He has NEVER liked automatic toilets, EVER)
I’m smiling at him, trying hard not to giggle because I don’t want him to think that I’m making fun of or laughing at him, I just really think he’s adorable at that moment. So I somehow control myself and I simply ask him if he sees a red, blinking light on the toilet, he says that he does and I said “That’s great!” He looked at me like I had lost my mind. I told him to go back in the stall lock the door and put his hand over the light, go pee and then push the flusher button when HE was ready. BOOM! Big smile, an “OK!!” and 30 seconds later I see Bry come around the corner with a huge grin, “It worked!” he said. He washed his hands, got his own paper towel and we went out to greet the rest of his day.
We walked him to class after that and stayed for a little bit, but by 9 we were leaving. He was ready!
I called him this afternoon to ask him about his first day at the Big K and what he learned. His response was precious! “Nini, that toilet trick, it worked ALL DAY!”
Who knew the most important thing (to him) that he learned all day was how to use the toilet, his way?
