My Worst NIGHTMARE!

So Sunday was the first day of Sunbeams for Glen David (I know, he is huge and looks like he is 5 but he missed the cut off by a month so he just started Sunbeams this year). Well, on Saturday they had a "Meet Your Teacher" Primary activity day and Glen was in heaven. He loved it and was so excited for Primary. He couldn't stop talking about how he gets to go with the big kids now (which caused some confusion because he thought he was older and was wondering why we didn't have a birthday party yet). I finally explained to him that it's not his birthday yet but that after Christmas you move up to the next class at church and now he is able to be in with the big kids in sharing time.

Well, everything went well on Sunday (so I thought). On the drive home he was excited to show us what he had made in class. I started asking him questions like, "Did you have fun in Primary today?" his response was "Yeah!" Then I asked, "Do you like your new teacher?" And to my horror his response was, "No, I liked my other teacher better, my new teacher is fat!" My jaw just about dropped to the floor and I looked over at my husband to see if I had heard Glen right. Sure enough... he had said exactly what I thought I heard. After trying to regain my patience, I tried to calmly explain that we don't talk about things like that, we don't call people fat because it makes them sad. I don't know that he really understood, he just knew Glen Allen and I were not happy with his choice of words.

A little while after the shocking comment, we got an invitation to dinner at his new teachers house. They were having several families over for dinner and wanted us to come. So later on that evening, we went over to their house and another lady from the ward (not his teacher) said, "Did you hear what Glen said in class today?" I thought she was going to tell me something cute or funny he said because I didn't even think about the fact that he would have made that comment in the actual class to his teachers face! Well sure enough, this lady continues to tell me how Glen David told his new teacher that he liked his old teacher better because, "you are fat". At that moment I just wanted to curl up in a ball and hide! I was so embarrassed and especially to hear it from some other lady in the ward... which meant my son was the talk of the day!

I immediately took Glen David over to apologize to his teacher. She just chuckled and asked how I had found out about it. I guess she had told her whole family about it (her husband and 5 kids) and threatened them not to say a word to us when we came over for dinner because she didn't want Glen to get in trouble and not want to come back to her class again. I continued to apologize up and down and finally was just at a loss for words. She was nice about it and just laughed and assured me that she has heard worse from her lovely little Sunbeams!

I have always heard of the embarrassing stories of kids saying the darnest things but I hadn't really experienced it yet. I guess Sunday it was my turn! I'm done with that "first", as a mom, and will gladly let someone else experience it now... any takers!?!?