So How Long Do I Have To Do This???

Impressions of the First Week of School:

• The playground - "It's hot ... too hot to slide down the bars on my arms... because they're metal ... and it's hot."
• Art class - "I drew a fish .... This is a picture of a fish .... See the fish??? .... That's a fish.... I got a stamp on my hand for drawing a fish..... That's a fish."
• Classmates - "There's this boy, Logan, he got his frog moved down to the water .... Then he got moved to the mud! .... Then he got moved down to the frowny face.  He's naughty.
• Classmates Part 2 - "I played with Clangston <Who?> Clangston .... You know, I played with him at preschool .... <Oh, you mean, Clayton!> .... Yeah, Clangston."
• Lunchtime - "I sat between Logan and Clangston. <You mean Clayton.> Yeah, Clangston..... He's nice, but Logan's naughty."
• Class - "All we do is work, work, work!"
• Music Class - "The teacher played some music and told us to dance.... So I did this." <Does an awkward, jerky rendition of the white man boogie ending in a breakdance pose on the floor>
• His teacher - "She made me her special helper. <Does she pick someone new each day to help her?> No, I missed you and was sad, so she asked me to be her special helper."
• His overall impression of his first week of Kindergarten - "It was long .... very, very long!"

Love Notes

I put a new one in his lunchbox every morning ...

He put them in his pocket so that I would be with him all day,

then carried them home and showed me.

Every day.

Sweetness.