Me: What was the first thing you did this morning at school?
E: Lots of sighing and hmmming. More hmming and sighing. And finally, "I'm not sure." Okaaaay.
After a long pause he remembers that they colored.
Me: What did you color?
E: "A house and some trees with an owl peeking out and the sky and the sunset. That's what I colored." So it's not that he CAN'T remember the details..
Me: What did you do after coloring?
"Uh. Let me think. Do I have to tell you or can I just think?" And then, after a pleading look from me, " Well, I think we went to a center! I think I went to the block area."
Me: What did you do after centers?
E: "Hm. Good question. I think we went to the media center." And then in an effort to stave off my next line of questioning, he adds, "And I DEFINITELY do not know what we did after the media center."
Me: Not about to be outmaneuvered, I say, What did you do IN the media center?
E: "The lady [I can only assume this is the librarian] read a book to us, but somebody scribbled the pages. So the lady couldn't read it. So she just stopped reading it because she said she couldn't see the words and she didn't read us another book."
Okay, is it just me, or does this librarian sound like she could use a nice stiff margarita in exchange for her mid-morning coffee?
Me: What did you have for lunch?
E: "Okay. Um. (Clicks tongue). Eh. Um. Uhhhh. Remember I told you I had chips and cheese and those little bumpy sausage things. Yeah, the bumpies. And pears. And chocolate milk. And that's it."
(long pause)
"And I think I had something else."
"Oh! I remember. That little cherry icy. And that's it. That's all I had for lunch. Hey! Are you writing down what I am saying!?"
Busted.
4 comments:
So Ethan has attended the Cade Fox School of Communication, I see? : )
Awww...bribery! If he wasn't happy he would be telling you everything that is wrong with his teacher and school! I say the less he says...the happier he is in school!
Jen, I love reading your blog and hope you don't mind that I found it. You write with such wit and humor.
I, too, went through the same silence with Maddie last year. Couldn't get a single detail out of a kid who talks ALL THE TIME. Funny thing is, I was just talking to another friend of mine whose daughter just started kindergarten, and she is experiencing the same thing too. Now that's something you don't read about in the books.
So glad you found my blog, Alecia! Hope all is well with you and your girls!
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