The blend boy

Instead of eating his tea, Tommy is now engrossed in his alphabet place mat every evening, pointing out all the blends he can see.  To say to getting a lot out of school would be a massive understatement.  He is lapping up the information like a dog!  He really does love it and is a testament as to why children should start school at his age (are you listening you under educated American's?!) He seems to have made friends and plays with lots of different people.  He buddied up with Phoenix for a bit and so I'm trying to sort out a playdate.  Of course. he's now long longer playing with Phoenix and Holden or Alexa seem more popular. Kids are so fickle.  I have to say he always plays with  Sophia too.  Its sweet the way they hang out together. Always within a group of children but I think they take a lot of comfort in having the other on there.

Sophia too is doing really well.  Her work seems a little drier and also easier than last year but a meeting with her teacher has helped quell my fears. Lots of fun stuff is happening in the class, it's just not being written down - which is fine.  The math work is quite easy though and she is coasting along without a care in the world!  It's good for her to be like that every once in a while so we'll see where it all goes.  She has made a new friend called Rachel, a Japanese/American girl who was new to the school.  As Rachel is quite vocal it seems to be helping Sophia with her confidence too.  And as luck would have it we are going to be moving (see next post!) so we are living right near them.  Yuko is already picking the kids up from school for me tomorrow (after a particularly painful playdate in which we scrabbled to find something to talk about for 3 hours - playdates without the adults in definitely the way forward!) and I'll get Rachel next week.  A very happy arrangement for everyone I think.

So at the moment I have 2 happy children. Tired (especially in T's case!), but happy.