We went to Elliot’s favorite store again, Spirit Halloween. He loves getting scared by the animatronics, looking at the props and costumes, and just browsing around. Here does not ask me to buy everything, but we did get a two-headed snake skeleton.
Then we went to the block party hosted by Claudio, Leah, Luca, and Josie.
Elliot learned a social lesson at the party. At one point, I saw him lying on the grass face-down, unmoving. I called to him, but he did not respond. When I approached, I noticed he was crying.
He said the girls were mean to him (there were a group of 4-5 girls maybe ages 8-11 nearby). I asked him to tell me what happened. “They told me not to lick them.”
Elliot likes to lick people as a joke. Their arms or whatever. I call it “lickens”, like my father did when Muffin licked us. Maybe this encouraged him because a year ago it was a game for us, but I’ve told him many times that people don’t like to be licked. I tried to explain it’s just our game, but I did not do a good job of that.
Anyway, the girls had enough of Elliot chasing them around, trying to lick them. Eventually, they were mean to him to get him to stop.
It is a lesson he had to learn. But it’s still painful to see my child hurt. Fortunately, he rebounded quickly and played with Luca and Connor the rest of the night, and Josie a little bit. She is 6 months older than Elliot.
