Homeschool Week at the Science Discovery Museum

Tuesday was fossils, Wednesday was forces and motion. Today was rocks and tomorrow will be owls. I signed Bubby up for the first/second grade classes with some reservations, not because I thought the subject material would be too hard for him, but because he'd be the smallest kid in the class. I didn't think too much about signing him up for the third through fifth grade classes because the subject material (building a circuit, dissecting a cow's eye) was a bit more sophisticated and well, come on, he's four. He seems to be doing fine in his classes though, holding his own and whatnot. I feel weird though, because today one of the teachers pulled me aside to tell me how smart Bubby is. And he was gushing. And it was weird, and it made me feel weird. I think the anxiety is from fear that he'll never be "normal" and that he'll never make friends. Is this a normal anxiety? Because he's said he doesn't want friends. (Of course, yesterday he had a playdate with his one and only friend, a little girl from his preschool from last year, but I digress.) Some of the kids from the mommy group I'm in have wanted to play with him but he doesn't want to he'll have no interest in them whatsoever. When I've signed him up for class he ends up not interested in playing with any of the kids there. But when we randomly go to places like the nature center or the park, he'll find an older (age five or six. . . once a group of eighth graders) girl to play with. And he'll play really well with them. But with kids his own age, or older boys, it's a mess. He'll have ideas about how and what to play, and they won't listen to him. And I'm afraid he'll be lonely. Hubby thinks he just needs to meet people he gets along with. I don't know.

We have to get onto three different freeways to get to the museum. The only good thing is that I can take the carpool lane (even switching freeways) almost the entire way over and back, the only catch is going through six lanes of traffic to get to and from the carpool lane.

Just one more day of mondo freeway madness. Since it's Friday, I'm hoping to leave right after Bubby's class so that we can miss that "leaving work early to start the weekend early" traffic, but with the way the kids have been, I'm sure it will be hard. I am looking forward to this week being over and us being able to go back to a more regular routine that does not involve an hour or so of driving on the freeway every day. The classes have been great though, it's been wonderful exposure.