Lunch Time

Nathan waited a full five years to get the kindergarten experience, but Kathryn has this kindergarten thing down at the age of two. She's seen the classroom, she hears the stories of golden behavior slips and the dreaded red slips. She even knows how the lunchroom operates right down to getting a tray, picking a milk and following behind Nate to let him punch his code in to pay for their meals. She sits down with Nate and his friends and even socializes! The second kid really does get a completely different view of the world.

Poor Nate has had to find his own way in everything he's done (with the help of Mommy volunteering and working to follow him around), but Kathryn is going to know everything about being a kindergartener way before her time even comes.

 She even goofs off like she belongs there.

 She's so funny.

Nate is very guarded when it comes to exposing his friends to his family, excluding me or Kathryn. He finally let Steve join him for lunch one day. I was already there volunteering so his class and I walked to the cafeteria and met up with Steve and Kathryn. Steve had to try these delicious chicken nuggets Nate raves over. I tried to warn Steve that parents don't really go through the lunch line and he would be the only one, with the exception of someone's grandma, to actually buy a school lunch. He didn't take my advice and looked like a dork. That's not the funny part of the story though. When he walked back out to the table Nate sat down, then Kate sat down then just as Steve put his tray down a little boy rushed over and squeezed into his seat before he could sit down. Then the little boy wouldn't move and Steve was left standing there with nowhere to sit because in that time every seat near Nate had filled up. I could tell the situation was getting embarrassing so I gave up my seat and left so that Steve wouldn't get bullied anymore by these kindergarteners.

Then Nate finally decided to let Paw-Paw join him for lunch last week. If you know Nate, you know that if he allows you to be around his peers away from home that is a very high honor. When Paw-Paw went to sit down next to Nate, that same little boy rushed over and took his seat too. Then he put his feet up on the seat next to him and told Paw-Paw he couldn't sit there either. Haha! This is a little jerk kid, but it's funny to watch.

I just have to throw this story out there too. Another little boy in Nate's class asked if I babysit. I told him no. Then he said I look like a babysitter because I look like a teenager. I love kindergarteners!