When we got home we had to explain to Steve why it was not ok to take things without paying for them. I do not know if he really understood or not but we tried. We also met with the school and explained a little more about Steve’s past history and asked that they not tempt fate and let us know before there is a book fair so we can re-emphasize to him that things must be paid for before we can take them.
A few weeks after the book fair incident we got another call from the school this time it was to my husband and it went something like “Mr. Woolard do you and your wife sleep in pajama’s?”. Well of course we do so when my husband asked why they were asking we got a reply we were not ready for. “Well at nap time we pulled Steve’s blanket back to wake him up and he had no clothes on except his shirt and socks.” Somehow he managed to get out of all the clothes from the waist down while on a little cot and in front of about 50 kids and 4 or 5 teachers. Wow did we have a new Houdini on our hands!
When we went up to the school they said that it had happened for a few days but they never called before and mentioned it. I still am not sure why he did this because he never did this at home but we again had a nice little talk about keeping our clothes on during nap time. We called our social and reported it because that is what a foster parent is obligated to do. We had to make a written as wells as a verbal report of anything like this.
After we talked with him about getting naked at nap time it did not happen again, luckily for me because it is really hard to keep a straight face when I tried to explain this to him.