Crazy as it sounds, the look of pain on my little Bean’s face when he broke his arm has been haunting me a little bit. Thankfully, I have a new, wonderful picture in my head of his sweet face! I took him to school today for the first time in over two weeks. He was a little nervous about going and even tried to talk me into letting him stay home one more day. But I convinced him he would have fun. Wow, was that an understatement.

When we got to the school, he was still a bit tense and started stalling in the office. But, when we walked into his classroom, you’d have thought a cloud of fireworks just went off in there! Those kids turned and saw Christopher and they all started screaming and smiling and running towards him. His little face lit up like the sun!! They all came running and started hugging him and yelling his name. He was like a rock star. And, oh, that face! You know how kids get that wide eyed, open mouthed, smiling from ear to ear look when they are really excited? That’s the look he had. It was amazing and so incredibly heartwarming! I think he almost cried he was so excited.  I can’t get the picture of that sweet smile out of my head!! And, I love it! (Unfortunately, I was so wrapped up in the moment I didn’t think to get an actual picture!)

I had to spend the day there with him today to make sure he didn’t get too jostled around and to sort of help him figure out how to navigate in the classroom with his arm in the cast. When we left near the end of the day, as we walked to the car together he said, “This was the best day of the entire school year!”

Tonight when I go to bed, that is the face I will see in my dreams. And, I think Christopher will see all those kids running for him with excitement on their little faces and he’ll fall asleep with a smile.