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.

Swinging

Eddie's emerging portfolio

"Crooked man looking out the window of a crooked house"

"Dripping wall"

"Dripping wall"

"Flowers and windows"

"CN Tower"

"Sun"