Tuesday, August 19, 2008

First Day of School - '08

Caden started preschool yesterday and he had a "beary" good time. His new school this year does several thematic units and the first one is bears...so he got to do lots of fun stuff with bears!

I tried to get some pics of him before we left, but it was so rainy...we had to do it inside. Here is his new Diego backpack, that is bigger than him!
Carter of course had to get in on the pics...sorry about the red eye.
Here is the picture they took at the school, much better :) He acted like he didn't want to go that morning, telling me he was sick. But I told him to quit whining and be a big boy and he was fine. I had to stay with him most of the day, but I was able to sit in the back while he played. He did great! Hopefully the next day will be just as good!
Here is one of the play centers...this boy is in truck heaven. This is what he did almost 90% of the time we where there. There are about 10-12 different types of trucks and he played with them all!
After a bit of playing trucks, he decided he wanted to go find his buddy Sam, so here they are playing puzzles.
While the parents had a meeting, the kids played some more, ate a snack and colored...he was very excited to show me his orange bears he colored!
All in all a great day! He brought home a goodie bag from his first day and a homework page! I will post more about that once he finishes it. It is just a coloring page, but he is becoming a perfectionist and it took him 20 minutes to color the two legs of the bear and one arm last night...we have to finish it today!

4 comments:

Annie said...

Awww...he is so cute! I also loved the pic he took with little Sammy! Those boys are growing up way to fast!

Mandy said...

That is so funny about Caden being a perfectionist. I can't even get Sam to hold the crayon long enough to color his picture!

Becky said...

Free Spirit is such a great place. I am glad he and Sam get to be in there together. And I'm impressed with his coloring - Sam could care less. I bet Caden is artistic :)

Devin said...

Oh my goodness....school for Caden! Did you cry your eyes out or what?

We opted to home-school Colin for preschool, and enroll him into K-5 next year. It was $1800 to send him to K-4 for three hours a day--to learn stuff that he already knows 'cause I've already taught him! I thought, "I'll just keep him with me one more year, thank you very much!"

The bear looks great--you have a little artist on your hands!