Friday, September 7, 2012

Back to School

Our first week of school is coming to an end... Oliver started Kindergarten on Tuesday, and Oakley is back at Preschool.






I thought for sure I would cry when I dropped Oliver off for his first full morning of school, (he goes five days a week in the mornings) but I didn't. Today was close though, since I left him at the gate instead of where they drop off their backpacks. I'm trying to let him gain independence and be a little less of a worrisome mother hen. It's hard. I know he works differently than most kids, and it's so hard to let go.

When I picked him up from school yesterday, I asked him how his day went and what he had done. He said, "Well," in his overly dramatic tone, "I'll tell you later after the sun goes down." When I asked him later, after the sun went down of course, I could only get snippets of what he had done. It's not really unusual for him. I badly wanted to ask his teacher how he's doing so far, but all my self control told me to wait at least one more week. I'm trying to not become one of those mothers.


Oakley is doing great so far at preschool. It's his second year, and there's a bunch of kids in his class from last year, so it's helped him come out of his shell early :) Oh, I feel I should mention these kids are all back because they can do a two-year program, not because they flunked or anything. Last year, it took him most of the year to warm up to his teacher in class, but once we were back in the car, he couldn't stop talking about how much he loved school and his teacher and classmates. He surprised everyone by talking SO MUCH on the first day! At first when he found out he was going to have a different teacher than last year, he was really upset, and Oliver was really upset that Oakley would have his old teacher and that he would have a new teacher in Kindergarten, but so far, everything seems to be working out. (Until Oakley found out this morning that Oliver had school on Fridays and he didn't, and when Elliot found out that he wasn't going to school at all...)