Ds is at big school right now! !
He was so exited to go he tried to install himself in dd's Y2 class this morning at drop off! We had a long wait around before he was due in so I took him over to the village shop where I work one day a week and started him off on the principles of retail management lmao!
Took a picture this morning of both of them in their big school uniform, ds looks so adorable in his grey shorts, scary thing is he didn't look like a baby dressed up in school uniform like dd did (and most of the others in his class when we saw them), he looked right, he looked like he could be already at school finishing off reception year! He is tall for his age and looks like such a big boy and then you talk to him and you get the speech of a 2 year old, can be very confusing and catch you off guard, and that's me as his Mum, must be stranger for others.
We met one of the 2 boys joining the class who aren't from the village, nice boy, nice Mum, I feel really positive about ds getting the chance to make a new friend, one who didn't start pre-school with him, the boys he has been at pre-school with all knew him as the boy who couldn't talk when he started and they quickly caught on that ds was a good scapegoat for bad behaviour as he couldn't stand up for himself or say what had happened. Pre-school picked up on this within hours and never fell for it, they have been wonderful in making sure that kind of thing is not tolerated but all the efforts in the world can't take away the way the other boys see ds so really hoping for some new friendships on a more equal footing. Don't get me wrong, ds has managed to make friends with a couple of the boys but he has never been invited to play, partly because the main boy he is friends with has a Mother who I don't really like, she doesn't really like me (our older children are in the same class, she has a ds, dd was the only child not invited to her ds's birthday party one year, that is just what she is like so I avoid her tbh, dd didn't give a stuff about that party as she doesn't play with the boy, I didn't give a stuff, one less thing to worry about I just bring it up as it shows what this Mum is like and why even though our younger boys get on well it is unlikely to be a friendship that develops out of school until they are old enough to sort things for themselves!) and partly because there are so few boys and over this year a couple of the other Mums have had new babies so not in a position to have friends over and I haven't been able to invite people over as I badly broke my leg and was in a wheelchair until April, only\just getting back on my feet recently so having friends over has been impossible. Anyway, just glad at least one of the new boys looks like a promising new friend :)
Will be off to pick him up in a bit and drop him into pre-school for the rest of the day so must get on and stop leaving diary entry type posts, sorry!