Addendum to previous post

So the rest of the story unfolds this morning when Cooper and I enjoy our wake up snuggle. After cuddling for a bit:

Mom: So Cooper, I'd really like to talk about what happened yesterday at school.

Cooper (he puts his fists to his eyes and buries his head into my shoulder): Mom, I really don't want to talk about it.

Mom: I'd like to find out if something was going on that I should know about. Were you talking too much or were you not doing your work?

Cooper (he removes his fists from the deep sockets of his eyes which I can tell now were being used to hold back some tears): Well, all I did was ask Trey for a black crayon because I didn't have one.

Mom: Okay, that doesn't sound too bad. Maybe next time you could raise your hand and ask if you could please ask your friend for a crayon. How does that sound?

He is good with that and so am I so the morning carries on.

I walk him to school and when he disappears to the end of line and out of ear shot I ask his OH SO INCREDIBLE teacher what had happened and if I needed to take care of anything. She looked at me so confused and said she didn't take 5 minutes from Cooper's recess. Maybe it was Mrs. D, the teacher's aid. Mrs. D turns to me and said no, what actually happened was that when she came out to recess that Cooper, much to her surprise, was standing against the wall (which is the timeout spot for any given offense) and she asked why he was on the wall and if he was feeling okay. Cooper just looked at her and said, "Mrs. Monsegur said I had five minutes on the wall." So the three of us put it together. Right before recess the class was rather chatty and Mrs. Monsegur and to ring her bell often to quite things down. She then said that the next person to talk will have to get 5 minutes off of their recess. So the miscommunication was that Cooper thought she was speaking directly at him when he asked his friend for the crayon. He gave himself the timeout and took his place on the wall at recess.

Well he gets kudos for his quick thinking last night to try to escape any possible mom given punishment.

Today when he gets home from school he gets a huge lovey squeeze for his honesty with his teachers and for that 5 minute period of five year old self mastery.

He can even have ice cream if he wants it.