TBD

83 Weeks

Ren eagerly enjoys pretending even though many of the things he pretends to do he’s got no reference. For a long time he was excited about the “K - kite” flashcard because we’d act like we were flying it. He had no idea what an actual kite did. He just laughed at the blowing sound we made whenever it came up. At this point, most things in his life are enjoyed because of his parent's facial expressions whenever they appear.

We plan to send Ren to a Montessori preschool program starting this summer and we took him to the classroom for a visit. He was curious, a little quiet, but settled right in, and never looked back as the teacher showed him games from little furniture in his size. 

Growing up, both Greg and I were good students. I graduated from high school with honors, Greg was salutatorian. We were also good kids, but when it comes to learning, Greg and I process differently. Greg sees a headline, he reads the article, researches online, buys the book, memorizes the bibliography, finds the experts, reads more articles, buys more books, finds more articles. Me? I listen to Greg. Maybe I see a thing myself. Then I’ll read a thing, and maybe do that with a few other things. If it’s a project I’ll jump right in. Sometimes the pond has iced over and I suffer a few bruises. Greg will do a lot of thinking before he starts a project. Sometimes the pond dries up while he does that. Hopefully, Ren has inherited equal amounts of our styles or even better, the ability to pull from them at will. It will be fun to watch Ren play school when he knows what it is. Right now he told us it's a place for “little tables,” probably because his parents tear up whenever the tables are mentioned.