My Teenage Toddlers

Another luxery of special needs (yep I said luxery) is that the preschool bus drives my son home and drops him off at the end of the driveway. It took me a over a year to let him ride the bus and I only have him ride one way but I would be lying if I didn't say that it is pretty heavenly not having to do the hour drive roundtrip. He gets home at the same time everyday but I always check 5 minutes early in case one of the other kids is out and they are running ahead of schedule.  About two weeks ago the bus driver who is a doll, started having him head to the door when I wasn't out there waiting for him and now he just walks right to the door while she watches him. I have said a few times to my family that if he ever got all the way to the door I don't know if he would know what to do.  I mean he knows you knock on a door but that doesn't mean that he would do it. Today I was sitting on the couch and heard the door slam shut.  I jumped up because it was ten minutes before bus time and I wasn't expecting anyone else. When I looked in my front hall I saw my two teenagers standing there (ages 3 and 5). My big boy was taking off his backpack etc. and the little one had just let him in the house before I even realized that he was home. Apparently, the little one heard my school boy knocking on the door and let him in while his clueless mommy who will now be watching television on mute, didn't know a thing about it. I opened the door and waved to the laughing bus driver who was waiting for me to check in. I maintain, ya can't underestimate these kids, any kids. They sure do grow into teenage toddlers fast!