First birthday

Eddie was excited about Vincent's presents.

Investigating

Vincent got some help

Eddie is exercising his patience

Hmm. What's this?

Yum!

Brothers in castle playground

Boat ride

Signs

Eddie says this sign means "No shapes allowed".

New paintings

 These are some new paintings that Eddie did at kindergarten!

The first work that Eddie signed himself!

In this painting we see the sun; below it are some clouds, including a "cloud shaped like a mountain" on the right. At the bottom are three people, who Eddie says are Fred, Bred, and Tred (from right to left).

UPDATE:

Since posting, the names of these people have been canonicalized as Fred, Bed, and Pillow (from right to left).

Comments from Eddie

This evening, Vincent was eating some ravioli with tomato sauce. Eddie took a look at him and said "Vincent looks so cute with that beard!"

Later, Eddie commented "Did you know that police can be friends, too?"

"Oh yeah?" I said.

"Yeah, they play with all the kids."

"Oh."

"And the police friends don't even put them in jail!"

First day of junior kindergarten

Playground

Eddie decided to build a playground out of Legos. He built a swing and a jungle gym (with a tree to sit on) all on his own. Then he directed me to help him with a slide, a see-saw, and monkey bars. Later he added a play house. It has all the playground highlights!

Writing

Eddie has begun attempting to write his name! He did all these letters on his own. He was having fun making them really long.

Kindergarten

Eddie has started junior kindergarten! He's just three, but kids start kindergarten here in the calendar year that they turn four.

He came back from his second day today and told me about what he did. "We all lied down, and the teacher blew up a balloon. Then we boinked it around. Then we floated away in it."

"You floated away in it?" I asked.

"I think that was magic," he said.

Conversation

This weekend we went to Chardon to attend an outdoor wedding! After the ceremony, Eddie and I were walking around the grounds on our way to the party. We came across a little girl who was standing around while her parents were changing the diaper of her smaller sibling.  Eddie approached the girl and asked "What's your name?"

"I'm Carlie," she said. "I'm four."

"This is Eddie," I told her.

Eddie scuffed the ground for a minute, then thought of the tent we'd just walked past where the band had been playing. "Those music stands have music on them," he told Carlie.

"I'm going to preschool," she replied.

"I have a little brother," Eddie offered.

"Oh," she said. "There's that…person," she said, gesturing vaguely toward the one getting a change.