First off, I'm not sure if it should read 'effected' or 'affected'. Reckon I should have checked on that before making it the title of the post.
We're going to skip ahead a little bit because an event of this week ties in with what transpired Feb 1st.
After we bought the house we realized that it was impractical to keep LuLu in her school. It was 10-12 minutes north of our old place, and would be a 20-25 minute ride once we made the move.
Also part of the discussion was the financial end of things. That $200/month tution looked mighty large once our housing payment tripled in size.
With reluctance - with sadness and regret - we decided to pull her out of K3.
Her last day was Feb 1st, a Thursday during Catholic Schools Week. That afternoon the school held a dance. We came in the midst of it and went with her class back to their classroom.
We had homemade cupcakes coated in Nerds candy.
[Lu was/is cupcake obsessed. For 9 months or more she has consistently brought up the subject of her upcoming 4th birthday and the cupcakes she desires to celebrate it. If you anger her or hurt her feelings she will quickly announce "You not have any cupcakes on my birthday!"]
Then I led the kids in the TootyTot dance. It's a ridiculous song where you wind up with thumbs up, knees together, elbows back, feet apart, tongue out, eyes shut, and spinning around.
The class seemed a little confused at the sight of a 300# man acting like a fool.
Part of my sadness that day was the strong feeling that we would have bit the bullet and kept YaYa there if it had transpired two years ago. A part of me thought we were shafting Lu, but I know in my heart that it was both impractical and foolish to keep running across town for of all things a K3 class.
This is Lu with her teacher Ms. Weiser
This Monday Lu and I returned to the school, to keep a long held promise that I'd have her visit with her old friends. They were all happy to see her, from the kids to Ms. Weiser to the office staff and the music teacher, but Lu herself played shy and didn't say a word to anyone.
What was worth noting was that despite saying she didn't miss school for these past three months, once she set foot in the building she was eager to show me all the different ways to get her or there, and which door led to what room, etc.
She even seemed to get over some comical anger at her friend Autumn. Lo' these many months she was quick to say "I don't like Autumn. She not my friend. She a tattletale."
But once we saw her, it was "Can she come over?"
Lu also talked constantly about her 'friend' Montarian. In truth her teacher said they rarely talked and even more rarely hung out together, but Lu seems fascinated with the name itself.
After the school visit Lu and I went to the Washington Park Library, where she gave a puppet show in the giant wooden robot/stage they have there. We then went to the West Allis police station to pay a parking ticket and got McDonalds.
A nice day together, just Lu and her Daddy.
Tags: LuLu
2 comments:
She must have had fun that day,
scor0046
How did Lulu get a parking ticket? ;-)
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