shawn's school birthday

The tradition on our children's Montessori school is to do what they call "the walk around the sun" for their birthday. The teacher sets up the diagram of the months of the year. The child holds the globe and walks around the sun (the lit candle) for each year of life. The teacher had Shawn stop at each year and asked me to talk about what he was like at age 1, 2 ,3, and 4. We also showed photos of him at various ages that I had picked out ahead of time. Shawn loved telling his friends about his photos. He asked me, "Was I good at walking?" and "Was I good at talking?"

After he was finished the kids sang happy birthday and then he blew out the candle.

He got to pick a friend to eat lunch with and he picked a little girl I have never heard him talk about. I sat with them too, Shawn kept resting his head on my shoulder during lunch. He was really happy I was there. I could tell it was a big deal to him. Lately he has been saying "No kisses Mom" whenever I kiss him goodnight. But he kept kissing me that day. It was pretty cute.