Kiddo, I think you're pretty awesome!

I guess you wouldn't be a mother if you didn't think your own kids were the greatest little people to ever walk the earth, but still, I do think it's true of mine. Now, I'll admit, I have passed along some definite quirks in my genes to my children. We have a tendency to be a little lacking in the patience department, a little obsessive, and perhaps a hair temperamental. But I am so grateful for how tender and loving my boys are. I'm sure that as they age they will probably learn to pick on their peers and be a little unkind from time to time, but I love that for now their innocent sweetness is still intact.
Today at Sam's school it was Cozy Christmas day, which meant that they were to wear their pajamas to school. Last night before bedtime I had Sam pick which pair he wanted to wear. His "coolest pajamas", a red and black pirate themed set, he already wore earlier in the year on pajama day, so he didn't want to wear those again. Of the other sets that were clean, two of them he deemed too warm, and so he settled on a set with Thomas the train. It wouldn't have been his first choice; he doesn't even really care for Thomas, but he didn't want to get too hot. So, I sent my little pajama-clad cutie off to school this morning, happy as could be.
So, imagine my heartache for him when, as soon as he got in the van after school, he reported that two other kids laughed at him, one saying "that's hilarious! You're pajamas are for babies!"
I take particular offense to anyone being unkind to my children. It probably hurts my feelings worse than it hurts theirs. And I know that it is going to happen time and again because kids can be mean. But it just surprises me that it has already started, in kindergarten. Now, I'm not trying to pretend that through some sort of superior parenting I have managed to raise a 5 year old who is incapable of being mean. Sam will hit his friends without blinking an eye. However, I'm grateful that his thoughts are still sweet and pure, and the thought would never cross his mind to laugh at or make fun of a friend. If only it could stay that way forever....