Sunday school for two

Before Kale's birthday party on Saturday, Adam took Kale to Sunday school orientation at church. Kale was the only kid there, so he got lots of one on one attention. Adam said the highlight was when Kale prepared a pretend lunch for him and the coordinator, and then made them all say the dinner prayer before they could eat it! Adam found out that there were only 2 other 3 year olds signed up for Sunday school, so Kale would be in a combined class with Nolan. This made both of us feel better about how Kale would react to it!

Needless to say I was a bit taken back on Sunday when I took them to their classroom that Kale wouldn't let go of me and didn't want to stay. This is what Adam and I worried about with Nolan last year, and he took the change with no problems at all. It got to the point that I was going to have to take him back to church with me, when the coordinator came in and Kale saw her. She went over to him and said she would stay until he was more comfortable. I think seeing her familiar face from the day before made all the difference, and I snuck out and he did fine the rest of the class. He even told us they watched a video about God and Jesus, and that Adam and Eve ate an apple. Nolan clarified for us that it was a dirty apple. Hopefully next week will go a little smoother. I also hope that this isn't a sign of things to come when we need to introduce Kale to new things.

Happy birthday Kale!

Kale had a fantastic birthday weekend. We celebrated bright and early on his birthday with waffles, complete with a candle in it. He loved that we sang happy birthday to him. We let him open the gifts from us before daycare. He was thrilled with a spiderman backpack and lunch bag, a spiderman action figure and iron man bath toys. The first thing he said about his lunch bag is that he'll need to pack his hot lunch in it! He packed all of his new toys up in the backpack before heading to daycare for the day.

Jane texted me later in the day to let me know that she had given him a learning toy from the movie Planes. Kale was so excited that he did a somersault and said "I love it"!

We were lucky enough to be able to borrow Jane's bouncy house, so the boys got good use out of it on Friday night. This was good because it rained most of the afternoon the next day, which was the day of his party. The only other kids who got to enjoy it were Lalayna and Lola. But at least they had fun!

Kale had a couple of highlights from the day of his party. The first was the cake I made him. He explained the entire thing to me - that Lightening McQueen was on the road, Mator was on the grass and his name was on the cake. He then asked if that was his number on it. The other highlights were all the guests, but especially Jane and Devon. Poor Jane hardly got a break from him once she showed up! He loved all of his gifts, but the one that keeps causing a sharing issue between Nolan and Kale is the silly putty from great-grandma. She always knows just the right thing to get them!

Good buddy

We played a rousing game of BINGO with the kids after dinner tonight. Kale was having a hard time finding one of his letters, so Nolan offered to help him. Kale took him up on the offer and Nolan pointed it out for him. Kale leaned over, gave Nolan a shoulder hug and said "you're a good buddy, Nowan".

I like to move it, move it

Kale and Nolan recently discovered the song "I like to move it, move it", by watching the movie Madagascar. We listen to it every day on the way to daycare/preschool. Yesterday Jane texted me that Kale was singing the song at daycare, when another little girl asked him if he heard it in his car. Kale replied "no, we have a mini van".

First movie experience

We took the boys to their first movie theater experience, to see the movie Planes. We knew Nolan would do well and were a little unsure about Kale. The movie played out exactly as we thought. Both boys loved the popcorn and candy treats. Kale had to get up 3 different times to go potty, with one of them being a false alarm. He didn't do a good job of sitting in his seat and was more interested in hanging on to the railing in front of us. At the end of the movie as we were walking out he ran off in front of me and didn't slow down until he was at front of the theater, and then thought it would be fun to play a game of run away from mom. Kale won't be going to another movie anytime soon. Nolan, on the other hand, had a great time, was well behaved and will get to pick the next movie!

First day of preschool

Nolan had his first day of preschool today. It was very strange sending him on his way. I made Adam do the drop off because I wasn't sure what my reaction would be, and how it might affect Nolan - especially since he didn't have the most positive reaction at the open house last week! We decided not to send him to Adventure Club this morning, so we enjoyed a nice breakfast. We also managed to get the obligatory first day of school pics. I took Kale to daycare and Adam stayed home with Nolan until it was time to go. Before Kale and I left, Kale made sure to remind Nolan not to forget his hot lunch, and that his locker is a blue circle! They gave each other a hug before we left and Kale told him good luck. Adam said drop off went well, and that Nolan hopped in line with the other kids with no problem. There was a little boy who was crying and Adam wasn't sure how Nolan would react. There was no reaction, which was good, and the teacher went over to the boy and gave him a big hug, explained how much they were going to have and they went on their way. No tears from anyone - what a great start to the school year!

We thought things were going fine, until Adam and I each got a few messages from the preschool teacher. Apparantly there was some confusion and the school thought we were picking up Nolan after preschool, when in fact he needed to be sent to Adventure Club. Adam was the first to get a hold of the teacher, and she explained that the report Adventure Club had was missing his name, but they figured out where he needed to be and he was at lunch. That was the only time I got teary eyed, which isn't so bad. We found out from Nolan after school that he didn't get the hot lunch, but a sandwhich instead. He seemed okay with it, though, when he told me that he got chocolate milk from a box, and that he opened it all by himself! The rest of Nolan's report when I picked him up from Adventure Club was interesting. The first thing he told me is that he cried at rest time because he didn't have his blanket. I told him we could talk about it with dad, but that we didn't want him to bring his blanket with him. His response was, "the teacher told me I could". I asked if he made any new friends and he told us the names of 2 of the boys. He also told me that one of the boys he goes to daycare with saw him in the lunchroom and stopped to say hi to him. He was so excited!

The bacon tie

Nolan was enjoying a nice breakfast of eggs, toast and turkey bacon this morning. He put the bacon under his neck, looked at me and said "mom, do you like my bacon tie?".