THE LAUGHTER MY GABRIEL CAN BRING

Tita Dit-Dit is always tripping on my Gabriel. What better past time than playing with him and laughing her throat out of her mouth.

SCHOOL TIME!

Today was Gabriel's first day in school. Me, hubby, and doting Tita DitDit paraded with the little pupil to school. It was all so surreal. My son is taking his first step to the world. I was overwhelmed with mixed emotions. Tita Dit had tears in her eyes and I just managed to hold back mine.

Gabriel enjoyed meeting his classmates for the first time. When I bought his uniform a couple of weeks ago, he insisted on wearing them so he can go to school right away. It was 7pm and he was all set for school. With the degree of his excitement, I didn't have the heart to disappoint him so I tried dissuading him by trying out a bit of declamation. "Your classmates are already asleep!" "Let's wake them up!" goes his very positive reply. "Your teacher is also asleep already!" "No she can't be sleeping, because I'm going to school!" End of this paragraph. Need I say more?

So today, when his teacher said "Okay say good morning to your classmates." He stood up, looked around, searched for me standing at the back, smiled from ear to ear and exclaimed, "Look Naynay! I have classmates! They're awake already!"

He was the only one who kept standing up to approach his teacher and ask things like "Teacher, where is my lunchbox? Teacher, where is my Nanay Dit?" It will take him maybe a month or two before he will finally be able to get the hang of it all. If later I'll see that he's not enjoying anymore, I can just let him stop. Anyway, he's just turning 3 this coming August so he can still very well stay at home and I can teach him when I'm back from work. He's a very social kid, though. He enjoyes being around people, both old and young. So I can almost imagine how much he will keep liking school, rather than staying at home alone with yaya, all day, missing Nanay and Tatay.

The week before, I had to miss work just bring him to his first day in school. I was so excited the night before I hardly slept. The next morning, we got up earlier than usual of course, and prepared for school. Only to be disappointed. They postponed the classes and moved the date till the following week. How awful, I was so annoyed deep inside.

This part in italics is a sort of a continuation to this blog. Things got in the way of finishing this. I was hopitalized, the recent storm, no internet connection and electrity...some other things.

Anyway, somehow Gabriel enjoys school but I can't say to the fullest. Nanny says he easily gets bored. Like one time they were asked to draw a circle. He did draw a circle but added legs to the circle saying he's making it into a spider. So I'm kind of playing it by ear, I might just let him stop this coming December and just tutor him here in the comfort of our home. It looks like a traditional school set-up, not really progressive which is of course a lot more expensive, of course. That, hubby and I need to prepare if we want our child to get a kind of education that is worth all the trouble.