First Day of School

Owen started kindergarten this week, with school uniforms and all. This is a picture his school took of him on his first day. He is showing a board with his name written on it, but for some reason he didn't write it correctly even though he has been able to write his name for two years. Figures they would record this version for posterity, right?

Owen was originally supposed to be in pre-K, but his classmates from the summer were all moving up, and his teachers recommended that he go ahead and move up to kindergarten with them since he was at the same level socially and academically. We are going to wait until we see how he does in kindergarten and compare his size and age to the other kids entering his elementary school before deciding whether we will have him repeat kindergarten or move up to first grade when he starts public school next year.

Next is Eric on his first day in the Toddler classroom (he moved up from Young Toddler).

Eric had a little trouble adjusting to daycare when I went back to work, but it was just the drop off that bothered him. After a minute or two of crying he would immediately set off playing with the other kids or by himself. Now that he is in the Toddler room, he runs off to play as soon as we drop him off, so he seems to really like being in the bigger room with more toys.

Update on Owen

Here are some pictures of Owen's cut as it heals. The first 2 pics here are in the 2-3 days after the injury:

These next two pics are after about a week. It looks a little worse on his forehead now because the dermabond is drying out and starting to loosen, but if you look closely, you can see that the cut underneath is looking better:

Finally these two were taken today, after about 3/4 of the dermabond has fallen off. The bottom piece of dermabond looks like it is going to hang on for another several days because of the positioning, but the rest if pretty much healed. The skin tissue where the dermabond sat is still a little red and raw looking, but the line of the wound is only a little dip in the skin, so it looks like it healed pretty well.

I will post one more set of pics next week after the rest of the dermabond comes off and the skin has recovered around the wound from the dermabond.