My idol wears Spiderman band-aids

So my son Ben came home from the first day of kindergarten with what I think is the perfect and most fitting memento, especially for a boy–an injury report.  Not that I'm happy he was hurt, but because it told me  he got out there and played hard.  He jumped high. He ran fast. He tried something a little over his ability. He tried something new. 

So he biffed it?  So what?  

It made me smile when I glimpsed him in the rearview mirror as he happily chattered away about his day, emptied his sand-filled shoes on the back floor of my car, Spiderman band-aids on his knee and elbow, then handed me the piece of paper.   "Here, I burned-in on the playground. It was fun." 

I want to be more like Ben.  He was kinda my idol at that moment. 

Other things I've written on MomCrush about my kids and school:

✬  Mensa Mamma

✬  Is there anything cooler than a 5-year-old boy?

✬  second graders really want to know.