Small Victories

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September 27, 2007 - Thursday

Sometimes it’s the small victories...

I am so excited with Coen being in school! He's learning how to write! I get so tickled to look in his little bookbag after school and see his worksheets with letters and numbers written on them! It's so stupid, but it just makes me giddy. He's getting so big! Of course, I don't just get giddy at his school work, but he's starting to make good decisions too - granted he still makes bad ones, but he's only 4 and still learning.

He has a little friend, Ben, at preschool. Ben's mom and I decided to get the kids together after school today and take them to McDonald's to play for lunch. It was raining today so there were a ton of kids there. It seems everytime you go to one of these places there's always that group of kids where you wonder if their parents are even there - or if they are if they're going to say something to their obnoxious kids. Those people were there today. There were about 4-5 kids around Coen's age running around, screaming, puching others kids and knocking them down. They were hitting and name calling - and I just wanted to beat these kids. I was so proud when Coen and Ben decided by themselves that they didn't want to play with those kids because they didn't play nice. They decided to stick together and go somewhere else if those kids were bothering them.

He's not perfect. He throws himself when told no - he pouts when he doesn't get instant gratification - he pushes his sister and doesn't listen to directions all the time. But then he makes a decision all on his own to be a better person and it makes it so much easier to handle the other stuff. He's 4. He's not perfect (nearly, but not completely), but apparently the values we're teaching him are sinking in somewhere. He chose not to be an asshole all on his own! It's the victories in life that excite me.