1/5 Preschooler, 4/5 Momma's Boy

With the upcoming I Can! Arts & Resource Center (where Eli's Memorial Courtyard will be located. A center designed for special needs children to take dance, art, and music classes)groundbreaking coming up, I knew it was time. Walker D, my sweet baby boy, is just not small and meak enough to go with me to meetings anymore. He requires constant entertainment, as well as he loves being the constant entertainer. Meetings were beginning to be alot more in the fall and I knew this day was coming...afterall, his Papa was probably getting tired of daddy calling him the night before to see if he could watch this bubby 2 year old while momma had to be gone to a meeting that next day. His Papa has graciously agreed to keep him nearly once a week or so when these meetings came up. But we just knew things were about to pick up.

And they did.... Quickly.

I've sheltered this little boy and raised him the past 2 years in effort to protect him and cherish every.single.minute with him. Time is so precious. We know this all too well.

January 25th, we will be breaking ground on this new innovative center on live Arkansas television. It's time that momma gets busy and Walker D go to 'school' (actually a Mothers Day Out program that is a christian-based pre-school setting).

 

There is a special place that I knew he would go when it was time. And luckily they had a spot for him. So we are testing the waters and he will go one day a week to 'school'. This week, he kept talking about going to 'school' and riding 'de-bus'.

Weeeelllllllll, there's no bus Walker D. But he didn't understand. School = school bus.

He did well at 'school' that day. His new teacher would text us pictures of him through out the day. She said he ate 'most' of his lunch and napped during nap time well. Said he was the socializer (which did not surprise us at all). Said he was sweet to a crying little boy. Walker apparently took him a stuffed giraffe and asked him if he was 'ok'. Sweet huh?

When Momma and Daddy went to pick him up from his first day of 'school', what did Walker D do? He turned around, said "hi mom!" and went back to the kitchen station he was playing with.

Well, then. Hi to you too, Walker D.

Getting him to leave and convincing him that he would be back next week was a challenge because he wanted to stay and play. I guess this is a good sign. In follow up with a promise, we took him to go see his cousins get off 'de-bus' on our way home. The child is in love with a school bus.

So we both win. Momma gets one day a week to plan for her meetings to get this center up and rolling. Walker D gets to 'socialize'.



Dear Lord, thank you for giving us the life of this happy, healthy, and smart precious little boy. He truly gives us the meaning of life and a reason to live in your name. I cannot give you enough praise or enough thank yous for this little life. How did we deserve such a gift? I hope we do not let you down. I pray that we do not let our precious Eli down. I pray that this I Can! Arts & Resource Center be done in your time, your reasons, your will. Thank you for making ends meet to allow us to be a part of this project. One day at a time. Amen.