Remember how often Elliot says, “Daddy, guess what? I love you.”
Remember on Wednesday, when I picked up Elliot from his last day at The Purple Room at the Garden Preschool, he asked about being with his mother? And tonight, the day before his first day in The Blue Room, Elliot asked who is picking him up from school tomorrow. When I said “mama”, he said he wanted me to pick him up. “Can mama bring me to school in the morning and you pick me up? I can stay with you?” When I said I’d have to ask mama, he said “I asked her and you know what she said? She said yes.”
Barbara Shindell says this could just be Elliot’s desire not to change; not necessarily that he likes being with one of us more than the other. But we had so much quality time together these last five days, I don’t know. He had off from school/camp on Thursday and Friday, so I took off from work. I very consciously was present with him for 4 1/2 days. No phone (except to take photos); no computer. No distractions. Just us 24/7. And Elliot still does not like being left alone unless he is watching TV, which I limited to only when I was cooking lunch or dinner.
So even if I go to the bathroom, Elliot follows me. If I move from the kitchen to the laundry room, Elliot follows me. I’ll forget something in one room, and he follows me for the 3 seconds it takes before I return to the original room. It is like we connected by a leash. We are very attached to each other because of this.
GOING TO PLANET COUS-COUS
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