Butterfly! You Just Gotta Love Her
Like any Parent I always feel peacock proud when someone compliments my Butterfly's character. Often when I collect her from “Kindy” I am told by one of the teachers what a great help she is at “clean-up time.” A lot of the parents comment on how well mannered she is and seem genuinely impressed that she holds the kindy gate open for me while I negotiate my way through with the perambulator or that she carries her own backpack and anything else she brings home. Some people are amazed that she makes her bed every morning, I’m not she gets paid $2 a week to do that! She greets everyone we pass on our way to and from school and is well known to the employees of our local grocery store and “get anything” shop. I was gob smacked when standing in a queue at the check out the cashier said: “You’re Sarah-Marie’s mum!” Apparently on one of our trips to school we past her on the street and the Butterfly stopped in front of her and said “Hello I’m Sarah-Marie what’s your name?” I have absolutely no recollection of this at all but this cashier was so amused she’s never forgotten and has often hoped she would bump into us again. When mum’s from the “Kindy” drive past us the children just about fall out the car windows yelling “Bye Sarah-Marie see you tomorrow!” and the Butterfly always looks the wrong way first and then gets mad if she misses them. In the park a few weekends back the Butterfly saw one of her friends whose mum came over to introduce herself saying: “So this is the famous Sarah-Marie!”
One morning when I dropped her off at the Kindy the Butterfly asked me to come and watch her jumping, I am rarely allowed to stay at the kindy longer then it takes me to sign her in so when she asks me to stay I take full advantage. On our way out to the playground she stopped and looked around and said “Hang on mum I just got to do thumthing quick!” and she was off, I followed at a discreet distance to see what she was up to. She approaches one of her teachers and says: “Excuse me Nola but can we please, please, please, pretty please put thome musics on out thide?” Nola, who was in the middle of making her and a colleague their morning coffee dropped everything and went to set up the hi-fi outside so the Butterfly could have music while she played. Not only that but she was also allowed to choose the cd put it into the player and select the volume that suited her. I was amazed and must have looked it too because Nola said to me that the Butterfly runs their “music department.” She went on to tell me that whatever song they teach the children the Butterfly is the first one to master the tune and learn the words and whenever they sing she leads with confidence. Now that’s really cool to hear though I do wonder if it’s not just because she’s just that much louder then everyone else that they have no choice but to follow?
There was a time when she mentioned on numerous occasions that one little boy always pushes her so I raised it with one of the teachers. Turns out this little chap pushes everyone and the only one that doesn’t push back is our Butterfly, apparently every time he pushes her she tells him off and moves away. The fact that he is half the size of the Butterfly and when pushed she never moved an inch was not lost on the teacher. During the course of that same conversation I was told that my child is extremely popular with all the kids and was never short of someone to play with at kindy. I am a very proud mum that’s for sure.
It’s very hard not to be proud of my beautiful Butterfly and she really does appear to be confident. She’s not easily fazed and if nobody wants to do what she wants to she goes it alone until what someone else is doing looks more interesting. She’s no athlete, but there’s no doubting her enthusiasm and I am sure we will be paying for dancing and music lessons in the not too distant future. She is a very well mannered child and seldom forgets her pleases and thank yous and she won’t let you forget either. She is quick to apologies when she does something wrong, unless she’s feeling stubborn and grows attached to that word “no.” On the whole she gets it right with flare and aplomb and I am left feeling very impressed.
Today after six long weeks of Christmas holidays the Butterfly went back to Kindy much to my relief! Over this time there had been some repairs and improvements done on the school grounds and when the Butterfly saw the new fence she was suitably impressed: “Wow look, Mama a new fence, so cool!” On entering the kindy she went and found each of the teachers and greeted them with an enthusiastic hug, kiss and “I really missed you so much!” That done she was off to see what else had changed and made sure she pointed them all out to me and then she told the “principal” that she really, really liked her new kindy. How can I not be proud of her? When I went to collect her I was told that she initiated the idea that they had to fence off part of the play area so that the grass can grow back, they obviously made a big thing about it because it was the first thing she told me when she saw me and I was taken to see the “fence” she helped erect. In fact all the teachers had something to say about what a help she had been and how well she had behaved.
Then on the way home because she was told not to do something or another she up and spat at me in disgust! Go figure!
One morning when I dropped her off at the Kindy the Butterfly asked me to come and watch her jumping, I am rarely allowed to stay at the kindy longer then it takes me to sign her in so when she asks me to stay I take full advantage. On our way out to the playground she stopped and looked around and said “Hang on mum I just got to do thumthing quick!” and she was off, I followed at a discreet distance to see what she was up to. She approaches one of her teachers and says: “Excuse me Nola but can we please, please, please, pretty please put thome musics on out thide?” Nola, who was in the middle of making her and a colleague their morning coffee dropped everything and went to set up the hi-fi outside so the Butterfly could have music while she played. Not only that but she was also allowed to choose the cd put it into the player and select the volume that suited her. I was amazed and must have looked it too because Nola said to me that the Butterfly runs their “music department.” She went on to tell me that whatever song they teach the children the Butterfly is the first one to master the tune and learn the words and whenever they sing she leads with confidence. Now that’s really cool to hear though I do wonder if it’s not just because she’s just that much louder then everyone else that they have no choice but to follow?
There was a time when she mentioned on numerous occasions that one little boy always pushes her so I raised it with one of the teachers. Turns out this little chap pushes everyone and the only one that doesn’t push back is our Butterfly, apparently every time he pushes her she tells him off and moves away. The fact that he is half the size of the Butterfly and when pushed she never moved an inch was not lost on the teacher. During the course of that same conversation I was told that my child is extremely popular with all the kids and was never short of someone to play with at kindy. I am a very proud mum that’s for sure.
It’s very hard not to be proud of my beautiful Butterfly and she really does appear to be confident. She’s not easily fazed and if nobody wants to do what she wants to she goes it alone until what someone else is doing looks more interesting. She’s no athlete, but there’s no doubting her enthusiasm and I am sure we will be paying for dancing and music lessons in the not too distant future. She is a very well mannered child and seldom forgets her pleases and thank yous and she won’t let you forget either. She is quick to apologies when she does something wrong, unless she’s feeling stubborn and grows attached to that word “no.” On the whole she gets it right with flare and aplomb and I am left feeling very impressed.
Today after six long weeks of Christmas holidays the Butterfly went back to Kindy much to my relief! Over this time there had been some repairs and improvements done on the school grounds and when the Butterfly saw the new fence she was suitably impressed: “Wow look, Mama a new fence, so cool!” On entering the kindy she went and found each of the teachers and greeted them with an enthusiastic hug, kiss and “I really missed you so much!” That done she was off to see what else had changed and made sure she pointed them all out to me and then she told the “principal” that she really, really liked her new kindy. How can I not be proud of her? When I went to collect her I was told that she initiated the idea that they had to fence off part of the play area so that the grass can grow back, they obviously made a big thing about it because it was the first thing she told me when she saw me and I was taken to see the “fence” she helped erect. In fact all the teachers had something to say about what a help she had been and how well she had behaved.
Then on the way home because she was told not to do something or another she up and spat at me in disgust! Go figure!
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