So this is September

Our first month of Kindergarten has came and gone. Elijah has been doing very well the last couple of weeks. After crying the first week or so he discovered he really like when Daddy took him to school because Momma cried. So that was that, and Momma would get up with him get him dressed and pack his lunch and Daddy would take him to school. He really likes taking the "sneaking road" because one morning he got to see a deer. 

Elijah began with learning shapes. He learned circles triangles and rectangles. He has also been working on sounds. He came home singing I like to eat eat eat eeples and beeneenees! Elijah has learned to be a good listener. He even brought home a short book called look at me now and was able to read (the pictures) to momma. Elijah has learned his first word. He asked me one night what F-O-X spelled! So sweet!

Kindergarten Fall 2012

Elijah made a friend. He started telling us about talking to his friend Charlie and playing with Charlie. When we started asking questions like "what's he like" we were corrected with "Well Charli is a girl." She sits at the front table with Elijah (table number 2) and has really helped Elijah not cry. 

One day Momma and Daddy had an appointment with the speech therapist and heard an announcement overhead about the entire school only having one absence that day. When Elijah got home he was excited to tell us that he had popcorn at school. I asked when he got popcorn and he told us that the lady from the office came around to his room and had a bag of popcorn for everyone because there was a kid missing all day.

Then one day Daddy talked to Elijah's (teacher's) aid at work. He learned that one of the twins in Elijah's room tells everyone that he is her boyfriend. She also told Daddy that Elijah does really well in school and participates. We have been told that out of the 20 in Kindergarten Elijah is only one of 3 that did not attend preschool, but that he is ahead of most of his class!

Picture day came when Momma had to work. So she got out the closet organizer with the days of the week a few days before and was sure to pick out clothes for picture day as well as the rest of the week and leave them ready to grab. Momma was bragging about the organizer at work and suggesting to her coworker she really needed one with having hairbows, etc with her daughter. Then her next day off she discovered Wednesday PICTURE DAY still folded, untouched in the organizer. So Daddy sent Elijah to school for pictures in two shirts that did not match, and neither were meant for pictures! Pictures came and Elijah's smile settled the anger.