We would like to announce that Ruby is going to be the Statue of Liberty for Halloween, and Carl wants to be a bat. There are practically no child bat costumes available this year except for some tarty ones for little girls, and I am not sewing this time around, so I have delegated most of the bat-making responsibility to Rod. No one is allowed to change his or her mind about costumes from this point on. Right?
Carl hates nap time at school. Not only must he endure the indignity of being a five year old in Pre-K, but Pre-K kids have to go to nap time, for a whole 30 minutes a day. Carl usually spends about that long complaining about it each morning and begging me to pick him up early from school so that he can skip it. He doesn't ever sleep and it's so so so so boring, and Buddy X and Y are always bugging him, and please, please, can't he just stay home?
So finally I asked his teacher if he could do something else at nap time, like maybe work alongside the kindergartners? She said no to that, but offered that Carl could bring a book to nap and read to himself. The best books for this, she said, and the ones that seem to keep Carl's attention longest, are big non-fiction picture books.
Carl seems pretty happy with this deal, maybe just because it's a novelty, but I'm taking my respite from the complaining with a grateful heart for however long it lasts. We went to the library today so that he could check out some new non-fiction, and we carted home a huge stack of books on fascinating topics like shipwrecks and dinosaurs, and also conifers, weather, and turkeys. Did I mention that he can't really read yet? So nice cover art is how he chooses.
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