Low on Pictures, High on Life

I only have one picture from this week - the pile of used boys clothes we inherited from one of Jeff and Allicia's friends. Since Avery won't fit into them for a while, they went to Nico. We have pants, and pants, and shorts, and shirts, and pajamas, all 4T. We were totally blessed! I don't think we'll need to buy any clothes for him for summer.

Take a look at that shirt, totally cute right? I love it!

I'll have more pictures next week :)

I talked more with Nico's teacher about reducing his days at school, and she told me that Guy and I have a major part in the decision, they can't just cut his days without our go-ahead. So we decided we agree that cutting his days to two days per week will be the best, and then on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday he will be going to a different preschool. We enrolled him in Beautiful Savior Lutheran Preschool in the afternoons on those days. 12:30 - 3:00. No bussing, obviously, so I will be dropping him off and picking him up, it is about a 10 minute drive from here.

We visited this preschool on Monday afternoon to meet the teacher and the assistant and all of the kids. Nico LOVED it, he jumped right in and started playing with the toys. The teacher answered all my questions about food allergies and we set up a plan for that, I filled out all the forms, we gave them our deposit, and he's all set to start next Wednesday (since Monday is a holiday). He keeps asking to go back to the "New Preschool", so I think he will enjoy himself. And I am excited they have a Bible lesson every day!

Oh boy, I am so excited for Nico, he is blossoming in so many ways. He took an incredible stride forward and is really blowing us away with all of his socialite skills. He is ASKING kids and adults what their names are, when their birthdays are, how old they are, and then introducing himself to them. He is talking more and more and more and in conversational ways, like asking me "Mommy how are you feeling? Did you sleep well?" He's telling stories, and imagining scenarios. The bus driver even told me that he has noticed in the past few weeks that Nico is talking more and interacting with the bus attendant and the other kids. He said that usually you don't see kids change that much in such a small amount of time, especially because Nico has been the same quiet kid since school started… until a few weeks ago! He is chattering about clouds, and books, and all sorts of things while riding on the bus. Last week he gave the bus driver an imaginary letter because he was pretending to be the mailman delivering letters. He says "Hi" to the bus driver now instead of being silent. He is more confident and comfortable in situations. I love to see that!

That's all the news from this past week, I think.

I will bring the camera to his first day of his new preschool next Wednesday and hope to get some good pictures.

First Day of New School

We came back from Salt Lake City on Saturday and we were very happy to be home! We got to be here for all of Guy's weekend and we got some good family time in.

Tuesday was Nico's first day at his new school. Everything went fine, he got on the bus fine and came home fine. On Wednesday when I told him it was about time to get ready for school, he resisted. That's ok, that sometimes happened before, but in the past I would just tell him that he needed to go to school and he was fine. This time, he resisted, and kept resisting, I almost had to sit on him to put his shoes on. He kept pulling his shoes off as I was putting them on. I had to drag him to the bus where the kind bus driver got down and had Nico sit on his lap. Eventually they brought him onto the bus, but the whole while he was still saying "No, Mommy, no, I don't want to go to school. I don't want to I don't want to!"

When he got home he had quite the welcome committee. Me, Daddy, Allicia, Avery, and Evie were all sitting on the front porch waiting for him. After bringing him from the bus, he came right up onto the porch and pulled out some stuff from his backpack to show all of us.

The same resisting thing happened today but in a lesser degree. As soon as he was on the bus he was fine.

Other strange things are happening… potty accidents for him AND for Evie, and acting out a lot. I'm thinking it must be growing pains, moving pains, change and transition pains. We had to miss a trip to G.G. this week because of time outs going long. We rescheduled for next Tuesday.

Last week I launched my essential oil YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/joannabananaberry), so I have been busy while Nico is at school. We've been eating off of paper plates and I think we'll continue to do that until we move into the clubhouse which they are projecting will be ready in one month's time!

Clubhouse progress

Getting Nico off the bus

Sharing some snickerdoodles with Daddy after dinner.