Meet the Teacher

Tuesday the boys had their meet the teacher at St. David's.  We opted to keep Ben in the Pre-K program in preschool as he wasn't socially ready for kindergarden (his birthday is in September so we could have chosen to send him this year).  LynnAnn, his resource teacher through the county, came out and gave him an aptitude of tests so that we can update his IEP for this year.  It is no doubt that he is bright as he scored well above the 7 year old range in a variety of areas including problem solving.

Ben & AJ are both in the afternoon program allowing me to have the mornings free for activities (I've enrolled them in swimming and hope to have them in gymnastics too!).  Ben goes Mondays through Thursdays and AJ goes Tuesdays and Thursdays.  They both gave up their nap this summer so it actually works out great.  And Seth bought me the priority pickup spot through the preschool auction last Spring so I've got an extra 10 minutes to spare before picking them up!  Ben was very anxious on meet the teacher day - telling me to "go first, have AJ stand behind you, and then I'll stand behind AJ so no one sees me."  He was very nervous.  After getting into his old classroom and settling down with the train building station he made himself at home.  All the while AJ had disappeared into HIS classroom on his own and was building his own train track.  Needless to say, getting them to leave was very hard (AJ cried).

 The first day of school was a success and Ben through a fit when I asked for him to pose for this picture because he "wanted to hurry up and go to school, he was SO excited!!"  I'm hopeful that this year will bring lots of maturity and prepare Ben for kindergarden next year.  AJ, well, he's always loved school and excels at all he does, including talking.