First Love

This is only Brody's second year of pre-school, so I'm still pretty excited by the whole thing. He goes three days a week with an extended day on Wednesdays. He loves getting to take his lunch to school. He also loves Avery.
She was in his class last year and became his "girlfriend". I didn't think he knew what that meant, that he just thought she was cute & fun to play with. Even over the summer he would say that he missed seeing her at school. So we were excited to find out that they had the same teacher again this year. But now I am starting to worry a little bit about this school crush.

(This is Brody with Avery last year at our Mother's Day Tea.)

I thought it was just cute until he told me he asked her to marry him a few weeks ago."WHAT?!" I said. "Yeah, I asked her at circle time" He said. "Well how? What did you say?" "I just said, Well maybe you want to marry me?.....(He hangs his head low) But she said no. She says she's going to marry her brother." (I'm trying not to laugh) "Oh, that's okay. You should just be friends right now anyway." "But I want to marry her!" "Why?" I asked. "Who talked to you about getting married? What do you think it means to be married?" "It means you get to be with the girl forever."
Now this was all still pretty cute, but that was about a month ago. I thought I had convinced him to just enjoy being four and not worry about getting married until he's Mommy & Daddy's age, but he still talks about marring her, like almost every day! I've tried all sorts of things to talk him out of it. Greg even tried to tell him that girls have cooties till they turn 16, He didn't buy it.
I mean I LOVE that he will talk with me about her. I really want to encourage that for the future, but this kid is way too interested with this little girl! He's told me that they will get married and move to California, but I will stay here in KC, because, "You like it here, right Mommy? But you can come visit us." He is so funny all the things he has thought of. I fear that he is going to get his sweet little heart broken. Where does he get this stuff? I just worry that if he is this excited about a girl at 4 what will he be like as a teenager??!!! SCARY!
You can bet that I have made the switch to Organic milk. Too many hormones in this little boy!

(Brody with Avery & Tate playing Harvest Bingo while Tate eats the candy corn game pieces)

Anyway-Avery isn't the only thing we talk about. He tells me all about school. He is learning to write his name and he's getting pretty good at it. He and his friends play power rangers & puppies during recess. He loves when it's his turn to bring snacks & show n tell. He was even super excited for Tate and I to come help out with their Harvest (not Halloween mind you) party.



Every day I drop Brody off it is a struggle to keep Tate out of the classroom. So he was really excited about the party too. He came right in a sat down to play with Brody & his friends. Luckily they are sweet brothers and Brody thought it was fun to show Tate everything he does at school.




The party was great. The kids played games, decorated cookies & crafts. At the end we got to join them in circle time. I love watching Brody discover the fun in learning. I hope he will always be this enthusiastic about school. I am so impressed with how well he is doing, both socially and intellectually. I just hope he doesn't let his interest in girls get in the way! Married at 4?Oh brother, We'll have to keep our eye on this one!