Mother's Day Tea

Today all the moms from Thomas's preschool class were invited to a Mother’s day tea at school.  He was very excited about it.  It was outside of the familiar classroom in the big hall with the stage, so I was concerned it would throw him off.   I went in with no expectations, which is how I address everything these days.  If he has a lot of trouble and gets upset, we will handle it, if he does well, it's a nice surprise.

He did so great today.  He escorted me to my seat.  I could see he was feeling anxious, because he had this look on his face, so we played I spy while we waited for everyone else to be seated.  Then it was time for all the children to get on stage for their Mother’s day songs.  I was so nervous for him, but tried not to show it.  If he didn’t want to go on stage that was fine by me.  To my surprise, he got up on stage!  He wanted to hold the teacher's hand while they walked across the stage, but once he was in his spot on the end he was okay standing by himself.  I knew how much courage that took for him to do that and my heart broke for how nervous he was, but I couldn’t have been more proud.  He stood very still up there and didn’t do the songs or movements, but that didn’t matter at all.  He wanted to go up there and he did it.  Afterwards I kept telling him how proud I was.  He didn’t want to answer many choice questions with me or others at the tea, but that was fine, because it was a lot for one day.

Scary chart is fully built into our bedtime routine and most things are not scary or a little scary, but he did say that getting on stage was very scary, so we talked about this a lot and he was really proud of himself too.