Week 2 Begins

We've survived the first week of school and are now heading into week two. It's been a week of adjustments for Darcy but for the most part, she's doing well. We're seeing that she's pretty tired by the end of the day and her attitude often gets pretty unbearable around supper time. Yesterday was pretty bad for her which is surprising because she didn't even go to school yesterday. Everything was an argument and everything seemed to reduce her to tears. It was awful.

Just as I was shutting out the light at bedtime she said, "You know Mommy, I'm feeling a little bit sad about something." Finally! We were getting to the bottom of things. She explained that she was feeling sad because she wasn't seeing her friend, Sam, much at school.

At Darcy's school they have junior and senior kindergarten in the same class and last year when she was a JK, her best friend was in SK. Sam is a delightful little girl and they really became great friends. They've had several play dates outside of school too and really enjoy being together. However, with Sam now being in grade one, she's on a bit of a different schedule from Darcy and I don't think they're going to see much of each other. That's going to be pretty hard on Darcy. We're trying to encourage her to make new friends in her class and we know she will, but she's really missing Sam. I think this will cause some sadness for a little while.

Wesley, on the other hand, is just the happiest, silliest little guy you'd ever want to meet. The guy just cracks us up all the time. One problem we're having with him lately is throwing his food and utensils. Once he's had enough to eat he views everything remaining on his tray as a potential projectile. We've found spaghetti on a mask that hangs on the wall about his head, french fries on the other side of the room and people eating at our house have had the misfortune of having his spoon suddenly appearing on their plate or in their drink.

Wesley currently has two favourite games, "Duck, Duck, Goose" and, "Ring Around the Rosy". He wants to play them all time. In fact, you can't get him to settle down for a nap or bedtime unless you first play "Duck, Duck, Goose" with all the animals he has in his crib with him. There was one night when Nick put him down without playing it first and Wesley would not settle down to sleep. After listening to him for half an hour, Nick went back in and Wesley told him he wanted to play ("Duh, duh" is Wesley's phrase for it). Nick played the game and Wesley was asleep in minutes. Crazy. He still loves dogs, balls and big trucks. He's really turning into quite a little reader too, which makes me very happy indeed!