Yep. I have a kindergartener! When did my tiny baby grow up enough for this?! It has defintely been a rocky 3 weeks as a Larson Lion. He was excited for the first day. Then day two came along and he threw up at lunch. I went to pick him up and the nurse told me that he said I made him a bad sandwich! Little stinker! I think he got overheated and chugged a bunch of juice...and that probably mixed with a little nervousness.
He still doesn't like eating lunch at school. It's his least favorite part of the day. I have struggled with finding food that he will eat. And he doesn't want to buy food in the cafeteria...and mommy doesn't want him to either. He's not old enough for that yet!
For the first week and a half of school, he cried every morning and begged us not to take him. It was pretty pitiful. He even cried during lunch. I ate lunch with him once and he was over the moon. But then he was a little sad when I left him. One morning he was clinging to my arm and said, "Don't make me go in there." in his saddest little voice.
Mondo took him to school a few times and now he requests for Daddy to take him. That has been making things go smoother. You know, daddy's don't take the stuff that mommy's do from their kids. :-) We are all relieved that he is liking school better but he still asks every time if he has gone for 5 days in a row yet. He counts down the days until the weekend.
This was from Meet the Teacher night. He was very excited...that excitement quickly faded once school started. :-)
Ethan and Will showing us their lockers.
They've been school buddies since preschool so it is nice to have a friend in the same class. Unfortunantly Tyler and Caroline are in different classes but they get to see each other during recess.
First day of school outside the main entrance.
Outside of his classroom.
His teacher showed him where to put his lunchbox.
Super cute pic of Will and Ethan.
Putting away his backpack.
Here is his Starwars backpack.
He looking like, "ok Mom, enough with the pics...I have learning to do!"
Waiting in line to go home home.
Ethan and Will after school. It has become a daily struggle to make him go home. He always wants to go to Will's or Tyler's...or any other random friend. Makes me feel so loved.
I'm not sure what the point of the hula hoops were but Ethan was frustrated that he couldn't do it.
This was pretty cool. It was this swirly smoke that you could turn into a tornado...until your 2 year old brother comes and karate chops through it.
Future obstetrician?
This was a cool magnifying glass thing that Caleb enjoyed.
Dr. Hernandez
Both boys enjoyed grocery shopping and checking out.
I love this picture. Caleb was crawling all over that thing trying to get to that turtle! We were getting the evil eye from the museum worker.
Lots 'o train tables. We had to keep Caleb away because he kept destroying them.
Checking out some dinosaur specimens under the microscope.
"Dino dig." This would have been better if it wasn't a thousand degrees outside! They got a stick and a paintbrush to go search for buried dinosaur bones. The kids enjoyed it and got covered in sand.
Here's a larger scale view.
Ethan cleaning off his brush.
Caleb just enjoyed splashing in it!
Ethan climbing across a freshly built bridge.
Ethan enjoyed the water stuff outside. He shot the waterguns at the targets and it made the propellers move and water shoot out other places.
He also liked pushing down the lever and making water shoot up high.
I was suprised he was into this. Those are foam bricks that you could stack in between the yellow poles. He was getting into it and telling all the kids to help stack them high. Mean mommy made him leave before he was ready because we were melting and starving!
Cannon ball!
What was Ethan hiding from?
