Hug Twice

As CJ’s been regularly attending a preschool designed to help him conquer his speech delay, his language has been vastly improving, both the amount he communicates and the complexity with which he does so. This has been really exciting to watch and hear and I am all for increasing his level of communication. My sincere hope is that by the time he starts kindergarten, he won’t just be at par with the other children but above the norm.

I realized today, however, that clear and forthright communication has its disadvantages too. When I was putting his coat on him for school in the morning, I decided it was finally just too small for him to wear any longer. I told CJ that his coat was too small and I was going to get his bigger one for him to wear. The too-small coat is a size 4, and the next coat I have for him is not a 5, but a 6. I didn’t find a size 5 coat this year in my yard sale shopping. So I tried the 6 on him, but it is just a little too big in the sleeves. I decided it would work okay, and started to pull his hands through the sleeve openings when CJ starts emphatically saying “No, mommy, too big. TOO BIG. No coat, too big.” Although I wasn’t convinced, I gave in and took the coat off him, thinking to myself there is only another month or so of winter before he can wear spring-weight jackets, I’ll just make do with the smaller one until then.

But CJ had other plans. The other? “TOO SMALL. No, mommy, no coat! Coat small, no.”

It is 30 degrees out, I can’t send him in a jean jacket, a sweatshirt, or a hoodie. I guess I’ll be scouring Goodwill and the clearance racks to see if I can find a size 5 coat. Too bad I planted the too small idea in his head without thinking it through first.

It is great he’s talking though. If only he weren’t so opinionated.

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