Kingergarten!

It's official! Eli started school. He goes to half-day kindergarten, just 2 hours and 35 minutes a day, which is great! Despite the fact that he can already read chapter books, he seems to be loving it. He has already made a good friend, for which I'm very grateful. He sits next to him at their assigned table and they seem to have a lot of similar interests. It's funny the things he chooses to tell me about. The first couple days he was always telling the "funny" things his teacher had to tell them to do - "I already KNOW you have to put the lid back on the glue stick but she had to teach us that!" and he would always tell me about when someone would get in trouble and had to have a note sent home. There seem to be two boys who have a listening/talking problem. Haha. Now he tells me more about the activities they do and what he and his friend Kaden talked about. :) They have PE twice a week, and then Music, Art, and Library each once a week. He's not all that talkative, but he usually comes out with a smile on his face and he's always eager to go everyday, so that's a good sign for now.

For the first week or so, Connor insisted on having his backpack on everyday too, even if he was riding his bike. :)

I have many mixed feelings about public education and I don't know if it's what we'll always do, but I feel like it's a good choice for us this year. I'm so glad it's only half day and we can walk to school in about 10 minutes or drive in 3, so I don't feel like I've completely handed him over to the brain-washing, creativity-crushing institution yet...but that's another subject for another day...hehe...

The gang on the way to school one morning.