His special day

The little guy goes to a co-operative nursery school, which means that parents have to take turns volunteering in the classroom. The days that you are scheduled to volunteer are referred to as your child's "special day." And for good reason! A special day comes with number of special privileges including: getting to feed the classroom fish, bringing a toy from home for show and share, picking the circle time song etc...For a three-year old this is all very exciting.

For parents the day is special too because it's an opportunity to share in your child's nursery school experience, meet the other kids, get feedback from the teachers as so on. It's also a lot of work. Each special day comes with a number of duties that include preparing a snack for all of the kids in the room, and doing a long list of chores (washing dishes, cleaning toilets, sweeping floors etc). Not that I'm complaining, though. Far from it. The nursery school simply couldn't operate without parent involvement.

Hubby and I take turns volunteering for special days. Today, it was his turn. The little guy was beside himself with excitement. The morning, he must have changed his mind about 50 times about what toy he was going to bring for Show and Share. Finally, he settled on his space shuttle.

Hubby was absolutely amazed at some of the feedback he got from the teachers. They seem to know everything about him because he's such a chatter box. He talks their ears off about absolutely everything - what he ate for breakfast, what toys he likes to play with, what he did on the weekend.... We had no idea that he did this because normally he's pretty reserved in group settings. Also, whenever we try to get information out of him about his day, it's like pulling teeth trying to get him to tell us anything! I play 20 Qs every single day on the way home in an attempt to piece together what he's been up to all day.

The fact that he speaks so free and easily indicates to us that he must feel really comfortable with his teachers and the other kids. I have to admit that I'm a bit worried that he has absolutely no filters when it comes to choosing topics of conversation. Hopefully he's not repeating any embarrassing stories :-)