It's Friday which means Ziyan and I are out doing all the things we need to do. When I had two kids and only worked 3 days a week, I arranged a mix of doing kid friendly activities and getting all the work done that is required to make her house run successfully on my days "off" (I.e. not in my office). Since I've had Ziyan, I have worked full-time and he's just had such a different experience with me. I manage to squeeze my full time schedule into four long do and sooner late nights so we still have Fridays just us. We have fun on Fridays and he loves being with me and getting all of the special attention but we don't do kid things.
Today, after going to two grocery stores, we went to the library to return books. When we walked in, I realized toddler storytime was just starting. So we went in. Apparently toddler storytime is on Fridays, the one day that I don't work. My son is almost 2 years old and I've never taken him to Story Time. When Zayd was a baby I planned my part-time schedule around brunch with my mommy friends and storytime at the library. Ha ha. Poor third child!
Z3 was transfixed. He enjoyed exactly 25 minutes of baby story time and then was ready to leave. He watched intently and was silent. My child is never silent. He talked non-stop through the entire grocery store. He talk to every person that passed. He said "Mommy go go go, Mommy go go go, Mommy go go go" maybe five hundred times. He said almost nothing it's story time. Just before he was ready to leave he did start pointing out to me that there were other babies in the room. "Baby. Baby. More babies." Then we went to the playground and he played for a few minutes before all the baby's got out of story time. When they came to the playground, he again stopped and stood and watched. I really think Ziyan didn't realize there were so many other little kids in the world.
It made me think that maybe he's ready for school. Maybe he should be around other little kids. Zahra was about this age when she started and it was great for her. Zayd started at 3 and the transition was terrible. I'm not saying the timeline affected their transitions because they're totally different kids but, either way, time is ticking. Z3 will be 2 in May.
Afterward, we came home and I put him down for his nap. And when I see him all snuggled up in his bed, he definitely does not look like he's ready for Montessori School. He's not ready to sleep on a mat. He's still my baby, two or not.
I promised to take him back to Story Time next week.
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