The other day when we went to drop Pookie off at school, her entire crew ran out excited and screamed good morning Sophie while handing her this card they made for her. Luckily I held it together because I was so overwhelmed with happiness i could have bawled my eyes out and embarrassed the little peanut. I am so incredibly grateful for this experience she is having at school. The kids are truly AMAZING. They are the coolest crew of little people with caring, sensitve souls that are guided by an incredible teacher. xoxo.
ps(the card below says Flower head b/c at school one of the boys was calling another boy butthead, and Sophie told him that it isn’t a nice nickname and he should maybe say flowerhead instead. So the kids wrote flower head on the card:)).
As if that wasn’t enough to make my heart melt, yesterday when i went to pick up Sophie at school she came running out to tell me that she cried at school. She was all bummed that she cried and said she cried once because she accidentally swallowed some gum from her lollipop and was terrified it would never leave her body. The crew told her it will come out in her poop. She pooped when she got home and was all relieved that her gum came out. Crisis averted.
Her second cry was because she was bouncing a ball and it landed on Dillon’s lap and as a joke Dillon was saying “you’ll never get it back”, etc. I think this was shortly after the gum episode so Pooks was in rare form and thought he was serious. She cried again. Most kids who are around 13yrs old (especially boys) would make fun of her or tell her she is being a baby and they were just kidding. Not this crew. When i got there Dillon and Venus were off in the corner and she was drawing something on a piece of paper. I was wondering what was going on over there but quickly got diverted with Sophie’s stories. As i was about to leave with Pookie, they came running over and said “Wait Soph (or Sophe, as they spell it) we have something for you)! They bent down to her height and handed her this…
OH MY GOODNESS! Venus drew this for little Pooks and then Dillon bent down to her height and asked her for a hug. He then told her he was sorry for making her upset when he was kidding around with her. He asked if she would forgive him and she said yes. Then they hugged for like a minute (a real big bear hug). It was one of the most precious sights i have seen. These are the kids of our future. What a lucky world. This is education. This is the way it should be. Kids with compassion, forgiveness, affection, positivity, etc. Simply magical.