Today Nadia and I went up to the school to join the little boy I mentor for Field Day. He won 3rd place in the 50 yard dash and 2nd place in the hurdles. Their class took 3rd place in the class relays. The photo above is Nadia with his whole class and they are all screaming NADIA!! During all the field day events Nadia did her usual thing which is to stare intently and try to figure out what was going on. They had music blasting for the kids and as the songs would end she would say “All done.” Then every couple of songs they would stop to make announcements and she would say, “More song” and clap her hands. Way cute!
The 3rd grade boys were just in LOVE with Nadia. The group started with 2 boys and grew to the whole crew below. They were asking Nadia all kinds of questions and asking her to say words, which she would repeat and they would laugh hysterically. One time near the beginning they got all up in her face and I could see that she was getting a little nervous said, “Hey, stay back and don’t get all in her face.” From there on out she had a ‘bodyguard’. So anytime the boys got to rambunctious he would say, “Hey. BACK UP. Don’t crowd her!” I was cracking up and had to snap a couple of photos.
During their break time their teacher read them a story in the classroom and Nadia was listening for a bit and then started pointing to things in the room and the kids were all laughing. She would say, “Wa wa. Ball. Red.” and so on. One of the children was supposed to be making a fish craft and he kept saying fish and then Nadia heard him and started going “FISH, FISH”. So the teacher paused in the story and asked if Nadia wanted a fish to color and I said no, she thinks he’s talking about goldfish. So the teacher jumped up and opened her cabinet and pulled out a snack bag of goldfish. The kids started to “ohhh and ahhh” and said that was the ‘special stash’ and you had to be good to get those. After the break Nadia and I joined the kids for lunch and then headed home for naptime.
Here she is with the little boy that I mentor.
