Student of the Week

My son is hilarious. He is so much like me AND Husband that it almost pains me to watch him. He acts like me and tawks like me, but he thinks like my husband. He does things that would never have crossed my mind. The thoughts may be Husband, but the presentation is all Janaan. He is convinced that no matter how ridiculous or how clearly not okay his behavior is that he is somehow either right or justified in his behavior and is determined to get you to see it his way. He is a natural litigator and feels that every issue, especially bedtime, is open to negotiation. He does it with style. I love his little kid swagger (He definitely got that from his Daddy) and finesse, but he may have picked up too much to soon.

Case in point. I took the LoLo Monster to his first out of school classmate party. As we walk in, the birthday girl's older sister says, "Hi, LoLo." He says hello and runs on to the play area. I hear a woman, that soon find out is the mom, say, "That's LoLo?!?". I responded by extending my hand to shake hers and say, "Yes. Hi. I'm Janaan. I'm LoLo's mom." She begins to tell me that her older daughter and her friends talk about him all the time. "LoLo is so cute..." and so she has been trying to figure out who he is and they keep saying, "Oh he is the cute one...". She looks in what I hope was mock horror and says, "He's 3?!?" I responded the only way I knew how, "Yup. He's 3." I guess she was expecting someone older.

Then there was the time at school when he decided that he wanted to be with the bigger boys and gave himself a role as a soldier in the school play. The teachers went along with it and come the night of the play I am looking for my little man to be with his class. I look and look and there is no LoLo in sight and then all of a sudden in the middle of a group of 3rd graders, who do I see? LoLo. He comes to the front and leads them into battle. It was awesome. Right up until he started a fight and yoked up one of the aforementioned 3rd graders by the collar and had to be told to stand down (twice) by his grandparents, who were hoping to keep Husband and I from finding out.

I have also come to find that he constantly talks during story time, wrestles with another boy and has been moved away from one of his friends for disrupting. Apparently, LoLo, is a Time-Out Rug regular, but when I ask about his behavior the teacher always says the same thing. "Leave my LoLo alone. He is perfect." WHAT? What is wrong with these people? What kind of Kool-Aid is my son giving pre-teen girls and teaching professionals that everyone has fallen for his craziness. He cannot possibly be that cute and I say that as his mother. I had a professor once write this on the top of one of my papers: "This A does not excuse you from sleeping in class." Newsflash- Yes, it does. If I sleep, but get an A that means it is okay to sleep. If he wrestles in class and shouts out answers and nobody tells me for weeks, at which point it is too late to enact fair discipline, then he will keep doing it.

This week he was asked to go to another room while his class finished taking pictures because he was so disruptive. He has been on time-out everyday based on the reports I get from my mother and other than help another boy with his classwork has been pretty precocious. So, what do you think the teacher decided to do about this?

They made him student of the week this morning! Lesson Learned!