Preschool

This is Calvin's second week of preschool. He's been going to The Ark on Wednesdays and Fridays, and Little Forrest on Teusdays and Thursdays. The first few days it was a struggle, because (as always) he screamed bloody murder when it was time for me to drop him off. But yesterday he just cried for a couple of minutes and then started to have fun and participate. I guess all kids go through this when they go to preschool, because they're so attached.

Other than the stressful part, which I think is almost over, it's cool to pick him up and have him talk about new things. Yesterday he started to sing a song to me that I had never heard. He learned it at preschool! And he started to talk about things in a way that I didn't really teach him. It's amazing when you spend so much time with your kid, and then when they leave you for a little bit you have a chance to get to know them in a new way.

New Space Poems

I just got a book called Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars, by Douglas Florian, because Calvin just loves to read about space. It has poetry and collage-like paintings, about the stars and each planet. My favorite is the one about Pluto, because it says that pluto used to be a planet, until it got fired. (It's kind of a sore subject in my house that Pluto is no longer a planet).