Today was my last day of school until late August. So that means it was Aidan's last day at daycare until I go back to work, and he has been told that he will start kindergarten in the fall. Several times this week he has asked me if I will miss him when he goes to his new school. I have told him that Daddy will take him to school and that he will probably be on a schoolbus at the end of the day, but that Mommy would pick him up after she gets done work. I think the whole transition and related conversations have unleashed yet more memories of his transitions in China. A day at the beach with LB & friends-still far too cold to swim, but warm enough to wade and play on the sandThe "new house" is obviously the foster home he lived in. When G asked about seeing his new house, Aidan said no, duh, we would have to get on a plane to do that.
Other "new house" memories that have come out in the last couple of weeks are that the bathroom was outside and it was dark there. He said there was no door but he gets confused when he talks about that, so maybe there was a curtain or something. There was no bathtub like at our house. When I asked about a wash basin, he had to think about it and said there wasn't one. (Often wash basins are not with the toilet in China, so that wasn't a surprise) He slept in a room by himself with the lights off. Another kid is now sleeping in his bed. He rode a bike without training wheels there. He really wants his Daddy to make his bike just two wheels like that one, though he says his Diego bike is much nicer than the one he had in China. He would ride the bike on the road. There were other boys to play with-once he said two, once he said five. He had a girlfriend down the road who he played with.
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