first week

We survived our first week of school, although it was actually only 4 days long. Getting used to the schedule will take a bit of effort. I need to get to sleep earlier, but we are enjoying the walks up to and back from school. The girls are also enjoying their time sans Ivan. There is just a different dynamic when someone is not there and we can focus on their needs and desires. Ivan is loving school, although misses being with us too. There is an alien in his class named Ugboo who has a lot of troubles with school work, so Ivan and the other kids are trying to help him out. So far they taught him how to write numbers 1, 2 &3. I am already very impressed with his teacher and don't know much about her, but that she knew Ivan's name the first day, welcomed him warmly, helped him figure out the routines and made personalized notes of what to work on with his writing. He came home with a stack of papers, some of it his work and calendars, school picture forms and so on. I'd been wondering when we'd get some info about the year, or something. She told him the same thing I'd been telling him about his writing, so it will be interesting to see if he will follow the advice from HER. Sometimes, it just takes someone else than mommy with the instructions. They also have music class, so that is way fun.

We met lots of friendly people at the community outreach today and got to have the cousins over for supper in our newly settled in house. It was a great way to start the weekend.