First Week of Kindergarten

This week started out great for Alex. He even tried a bite of pizza this week for lunch! The first day was a little bit rough, getting back into the swing of going to school, and on Wednesday he managed to do his projects with no arguments! Thursday, he worked so hard at school, by 6 pm we found this:

Then on Friday, we got a call saying he got sick at school. I think that sometimes he lets stress get to him too much, and he makes himself sick. By the time I came home in the afternoon, he was feeling fine and actually ate some cheesy noodles. We had to go get Dad some shoes for work, so Alex picked out a new book, and even got new shoes for himself!

I think that Alex really enjoys himself at Kindergarten, but him not knowing how to communicate really gets him down sometimes. I have complete faith, however, that once he falls into his routine, there will be no stopping him. We, as in Tony and I, just need to make sure that he has a good general routine at home, like going to bed at 8 pm and eating supper with us (which he still hates to do), so that he can be set up for optimal success.

Next week is Tony's birthday. He will be 28 years old! I keep telling Alex he is catching up to Grandpa, and will soon be as old as Grandpa! We don't know where we would be without him though. He is great at all of the things that I suck at when it comes to parenting. Like... discipline. I am not really that good at it. But Alex always listens when he talks, even if it is met with cries of the world being unjust and denial that his room needs to be cleaned. Likewise, I am amazing when it comes to the cuddling, encouragement, and ruining his day in other ways. I am going to go get his present this afternoon (but I am not going to say what it is in the off chance that he actually reads this), and it is a really good one! I am also going to attempt to make a banana cream layer cake for the special day. Good luck to me and all my poor baking skills. Hopefully Alex will be there to help, like he is when it comes to the shopping for supplies just so he can save the receipt for this purpose:

(He likes hearing the noise it makes when the wind whips it around. Silly kid.)