Keep up with the Breedorfs

Theo’s homeroom teachers email a “what we did today” report each afternoon and I love getting this glimpse into his day while I’m slaving away at work. The other day his teacher emailed the following picture to me during his nap time, and it was so sweet to have that practically live connection to him, to know exactly what he was doing and what he looked like just a few moments before. Even if he was being a little weirdo.

On the not so sweet side, getting Theo out of the house in the mornings has become such a challenge lately. Requests, bribes and threats to get shoes on feet, coat on back, and hiney in car are met by various forms of resistance ranging from the flatly stated “I not going to school today” to much howling and throwing of oneself upon the floor. My friend Robin told me about how her mom once pretended to leave without her, going so far as to back the car out of the driveway while an instantly repentant Robin pressed her horrified face to the window. I suspected that Theo would not be at all perturbed were we to do something similar and I turned out to be right. Matt tried it out the other morning. After loudly announcing several times that he was going to leave without Theo, he ostentatiously closed and locked the door and headed to his car. Theo watched out the window briefly but Matt hadn’t even gotten to the car before he had disappeared from view into the depths of the house. When Matt came back in (under the pretense of having forgotten something) Theo was parading gaily around the living room, banging on things with a wooden hammer.