Well, it’s just summer school but stil… Ramil and I got a bit sentimental while dressing Mateo up for his first day in summer school. The program is for kids who will be starting school for the first time this June. For Mateo, we’re using it to gauge whether he’s ready for the real thing this school year or not. Hopefully, he adjusts pretty fast so we can enroll him for this coming school year.

waiting for the tricycle

It was relatively okay – from my point of view – because all I did was to leave him in the classroom and then come back after two hours, when it was the end of the class already. According to his teacher, he cried loudly at some point, calling out ‘mama, mama!’. Hahaha! I deliberately didn’t look in on him so that he’d get used to just being left on his own whenever he has a class. Hopefully tomorrow will be better for him. I think he got tired and stressed from his first day also because his afternoon nap yesterday lasted four hours! I plan to use his two-hour school time/two-hour me time into walking/running around the subdivision. This way, I won’t even need diet pills that work to keep my weight down and to keep myself fit. I’m pretty excited to let him be more independent, to meet new people, to make friends, to love his teacher, and of course, to learn a lot of cool stuff.