Tuesday morning rolls along and I wake Mati up. The first thing he asks me is, "Are we going to school today?" "Yes!" I answer, trying to sound as excited as possible. He jumps out of bed with a "Yupppie!" and asks for his breakfast (Surprise #1). He was SUPER excited to put on his new uniform, a blue smock! He was beyond himself in happiness - he is now a BIG boy!! While I know Mati grew a lot more secure of himself this summer, I was still afraid of tears and separation anxiety at school. Therefore, Nico had agreed to take him to school (I can't bear to leave my little one crying, I would melt in sorrow and bring him back home!!). At 9:10 Nico calls to give me the 411 - Mateo asked him to please leave (Surprise #2)!!! Just like that. It didn't matter he didn't know the teacher or the other kids: he was FINE. Confident. Secure. AMAZING!!! Everyday has been like that. Extreme happiness to be going to school!!
He has an older woman by the name of Marta as his teacher. Hopefully she'll have plenty of energy because she'll have to deal with Mateo and his good buddy Jero!!! I don't know how it happened since we had been warned that the gang of 4 was going to be separated, but they are both in the same class!! If there's one thing I love about Mateo going to this school is that he has fostered wonderful friendships. After the first day of school I asked him how it went and he answered that he had had lots of fun playing with Pablo, Juan Lucas, Jero and Jaco. I feel that regardless of what class he is in, so long as he can play with his buddies at recess, he'll be happy.
Below are pictures of a very happy boy greeting the early morning and ready to head off to school!
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