Boys Will Be Boys

First Kinder. field trip today to the Oregon zoo!

First bus ride & lots of animals out!

– Post From My iPhone

Amazing what a new hair cut does for making a little boy look so grown up.

Not only did I have to get used to the idea of Braysen starting Kindergarten this year but what I think made this back to school time even more difficult was knowing Merrick was starting too.  Something about your youngest heading off to school and no longer being “the baby” was tough for me.  It was like double whammy of sadness that they are both growing up so fast!  A few days after Braysen started school Merrick started his preschool journey.  He is attending the same preschool that Braysen did for the last 2 years so that’s a nice comfortable feeling and I can’t say enough good things about this preschool!   He’s been there a bunch to pick up his big brother so it’s a nice familiar place for him but now he gets to stay and play instead of me trying to rush him out the door.  He has been wearing his backpack around the house for a long time now and has some jealous moments caused by Braysen’s cool lunchbox and his dinosaur backpack.   You can say he was just a little bit excited about starting school like big brother!

His first day was a parent-child day so I took the morning off to go with him.  It’s a get to know the classroom and basic routine day with circle time and playing mostly.  He loved the play dough area..seriously the homemade stuff is the best so I don’t blame him for not wanting to go elsewhere at first haha!  He did quite well, with only a few moments of wanting to escape circle time because he spotted toys he wanted to play with.

We had a long summer of weekly speech therapy for him and we made some progress but he still has a long ways to go sadly.  We are in the process of getting his records to the school district to hopefully have them do early intervention therapy with him at his preschool during the school year. 

Here’s a few pictures of him during back to school week!  We had scheduled a hair cut for him the week before school started but of course Braysen got sick and then Merrick caught it so we had to cancel. Murphy’s Law!!  He’s definitely needing a shorter style! 

1st day of school (hard to pick one so I put both up)

Some of him in the class (taken from iPhone so quality is eh)