Life with Lotus Maria and Lucian Stone

Today was Lucian’s last day at his wonderful preschool.  During his two years there his truly unflappable teachers Pat and Ann helped shape him from a toddler to a little boy.  Not only did he learn some amazing things, made incredible friends and loved every day, but they kept his sprightly spirit intact.  Lucian refuses to write his letters, and this frustrated me to no end, but everyday I pick up Ann pulls me aside to show me another Lego creation that Lucian has dreamt up and built.  “See” she’d say reassuringly “He thinks three dimensionally, you have nothing to worry about.” Like Lotus before him Lucian blossomed under the care of these amazing preschool teachers. 

The end of preschool also signals the end of Lucian and my Fun Fridays.  Since Lotus entered kindergarten Lulu and I have had Fridays to pal around together.  Honestly, sometimes I struggled and it stressed me out to be unavailable to my non-profit on Fridays, but as the end neared I really appreciated this time we had together.  Lucian is incredibly funny and tells ridiculous stories and jokes that unfortunately contain and inordinate amount of punch lines that sound like fart noises and just as unfortunately it makes me laugh every time.  I know I’ll have plenty of time with both the kids, but it’s been nice to have some one-on-one time with Lucian and see his personality come into focus.  I’ll miss our Friday lunch dates and outings… though I do think I’ve been to Fairyland enough for one lifetime.

I’m excited for Lucian to go to summer camp with Lotus in a couple weeks, but nervous as well, since change is not his favorite thing.  At summer camp and then kindergarten in the fall he will have his big sister to look after him and she always is his greatest protector.

An era has ended when we said goodbye to his preschool teachers Nate and I realized he have no one else to send to this adorable school and though we are certainly happy to be out of the toddler phase and are really looking forward to have two kids in one school for at least two years.  None-the-less it does make me miss my baby boy.  But excited about his next phase!