On May 14, we celebrated Hunley’s 5th birthday. It was quite an event! He was so excited about turning 5 because he knew he would be ready for K5, so when he woke up the morning of his birthday, he thought he was going to school that day! He was really bummed when we told him that the present school year hadn’t yet ended and he would have to wait until the Summer was over! However, we did have to make a trip to St. John’s for him to take his K5 test and that is where I discovered that David Albert Kinard spit David Hunley Kinard right out of his mouth! Here’s what happened…
When we arrived at SJCA for the test, we ended up waiting for over a half an hour for two kids to arrive. Their mom had lost her keys that morning and called to say she was going to be late. No one really minded because we all have had that experience, so the two K5 teachers decided to make the best of it. In the students went to one of the classrooms and Mrs. Tucker had all the kids sit on the red stripe of her area rug. She began to chit-chat with them about summer and swimming and if they were excited about school starting and recess and lunch and well…you get the idea. I intently watched Hunley because he’s usually not one for chit-chat. He did really well and I was so proud! Finally, the other kids arrived and out went the moms and dads. After the test, I received a call from one of the teachers letting me know that Hunley had done well and that they were confident that he was ready for kindergarten. I was excited so I shared the good news with Hunley. He looked at me and said, “Ok, Mom, but…Mom?” ”Yes?” I answered. “Mom – You know when we were in that classroom and we had to sit on the red stripe and the teacher was asking us all those questions?” “Yes,” I replied. “Well, Mom, I was getting tired of it!” About this time, Allie Grace chimed in to remind Hunley that they were talking about fun things and he shouldn’t have been tired. (My queen of small-talk!) Hunley ignored Allie Grace, looked straight at me and said, “I just wanted to take the test, Mom.” Yes….He is his father’s son.
This is the “let’s-get-down-to-business” attitude of Hunley…
Hunley, our buddy, our boy!
One morning in Kidspointe he had a really bad look on his face and both arms folded across his chest. I sat down next to him and asked “What’s wrong?”. He gave me a look of disgust and said,”You know!” I didn’t have a clue. I said, ” Well, is there anything I can do?”. He rolled his eyes and said “I miss my sister, she didn’t have to come today!” Then he was off playing all signs of distress gone. I never knew exactly what happened.
The moments of not knowing what’s going on are often with Hunley!! =)