Brendan has not been a baby for a long time.  Once he decided to no longer wear diapers, that was it (no night time pull ups, no accidents even).  He talked early (lucky us) and has seemed to want to do things like Aidan for a long time.  It’s hard to remember him as little sometimes. But he is still the baby.

But now he’s not a baby.  He has opinions about his clothes- lots of them in fact.  He has jobs he does, something we have encouraged in supporting Montessori at home.  He is a kindergartener. He doesn’t wear a bubble swimming anymore.  He makes his own lunch. He reads! He does math! He has conversations that seem so grown up!

Last night he was showing off how he could tie shoes.  Really?  When did that happen?

One thing he loves about school this year is being a big kid.  The beauty of the third year of Montessori.  He has been teaching the “morning children” all sorts things- when to have snack, how to set up work on a rug, where to sit in circle time (“Can you believe the morning children think they can sit in the middle of the circle?!”).  Then in the afternoon he spends time working on letter and numbers and lessons like tying his shoes or, more important to him, braiding!

He will always be my baby, and thankfully he still loves cuddling (this will never end!!).

But he is making us proud doing lots of big kid things.