Happy Halloween!

This week was Halloween, and Alex also was able to go to the Planetarium for a class trip. He has been very excited about spelling his name this week, and even though he still has a strong distaste for using lower case letters, as you can see. I like how excited he is about spelling his name!

For school, he dressed up as The Cat in the Hat, and he really enjoyed the planetarium. After they got back, he had a Fall Party at school with his friends, and when he came home from school, we went and nabbed Uncle Erik to go Trick-or-Treating in West Salem. What a day! Alex had a blast walking with us up and down the streets, until he got sick of it. Then there was quite the fight to get him back to the car. But still, this little Thor got a lot of candy and was very brave when it came to walking up to houses and getting candy, something he would have never done three years ago.

At school this week, they had a new friend come, and Alex did a great job with all of the interruptions to his routine. Next week will be a normal week for him, thankfully. He makes it so easy to be proud of him. He is talking a whole lot more and getting frustrated less. He even ate the school lunch twice this week. He had chicken nuggets one day, french toast sticks another day.

Its a great time to be a Kindergartner, that is for sure!

The hammer that I made has been a lot of fun. Alex has really enjoyed having something new to play with Dad with. I even had to bring it to school on Wednesday to finish the runes on it. This was a great week for our family, and I am so glad that Alex took it all in stride and really enjoyed it!

Oh, and if Stacey reads this: Alex has already mastered the games that we got for him on the iPad. Now he is putting together and reading 4 and 5 letter words with ease. He is so very smart! Now we have to find more games for him to master. Challenge: Accepted!