That Man

So today was yet another transition day for a kid in my preschool classroom.  This particular little girl is from across the hall in one of the infant toddler rooms - she is still two years old.  Over the past couple weeks she has come over to “visit” our preschool classroom. This week she started staying longer on her visits.  Tuesday she stayed for lunch and today she even stayed for nap time.  When she comes back next week she will be in preschool full time.

Anyways, I sat by her at nap time today and tried to help her sleep - with little success, which was okay since she wasn’t all that rowdy or loud.  As nap time was nearing its end, the main teacher in our class took this girl back to her infant toddler room.  When the teacher came back she shared a funny story from her trip across the hall.  This little girl was telling her infant toddler teacher how I gave her some coloured pencils and paper to draw with during the last 30 or so minutes of nap time.   However she didn’t use my name.  She just said, “That man gave [them] to me”.  Later, after school, as both the infant toddler and the preschool teachers were walking this girl and her mom through the new classroom over here in preschool, the infant toddler teacher told me similar things.  She shared that this girl kept referring to me as “that man”.  So she had told her mom that anytime you hear about “that man” she’s talking about Joshua.

I’ve been called many things by kids before, but “that man” is a new one.  I wonder what will be next, haha.