And that about sums it up...

When Alex first started school it was hard for her to remember anything of significance to tell us when she got home. Either she is doing more at school now or she is better at remembering the details but I wanted to write down some of her feedback for her to look back on some day.

"I sit at the blue table with Emma and two other boys. Maddy sits at the yellow table"

"We went to exercise class and just sat there."

"The computer called my name but it didn't work so I didn't get computer time."

"The computer called my name and it worked and told me to 'press the green arrow'."

"We had apples today AGAIN. We had to use the leftovers from yesterday all up."

Me: Ok, then I won't make you eat the apples I cut up for lunch. You can have carrots instead.

"We had carrots today too"

Me: I don't think so.

"Well we had one carrot.

Me: I don't think so.

"Well the teacher said that we're going to have carrots tomorrow"

Me: I don't appreciate being lied to Alex.

"I was just joking"

"At recess the first thing I do is go and find my friends and then when I go to use the bathroom I'm the last one and the line is really long."

"The teacher did something really funny today...she put a pancake on her head. It was really funny."

The third day of school Alex brought home a yellow card.

"It's because I was trying to wake up the boy next to me who was sleeping."

Now she's collecting 20 green cards in a row for a special treat.

On her homework page where she had to draw a picture of her at Kindergarten she drew a picture of her holding a green card. That's my girl.

"Today for chores me and the shark boy had to pick up all the name tags and put them away."

Me: Why do you call him the shark boy?

"Because he pretends he is a shark and does this (she makes a weird hiss/growl noise)"

Me: Oooh, does he ever do that to you?

"No"

Me: Good

"Today I sat on the bus next to Abbey. She's the friend I made at the park but she's not in my class. But I played with her at recess. The other days I sat next to my other new friend who is in 1st or 2nd grade. I can't remember her name."

Me: Have you ever sat next to a boy on the bus?

"No...Oh ya once, but we didn't talk. Then we saw another bus and he said 'let's race!' and the other bus went the other way and he said 'yes! we're winning!'"

"I drew a picture for you today on the back of my apple paper but we had to glue it onto something else to put up for everyone to see so you can't see the picture."

"I need 5 pieces of paper and 5 envelops to draw pictures for my friends."

Me: How nice, you have 5 friends huh?

"I have a lot more than that but I will have to draw them pictures tomorrow."

There is so much more but those are a few highlights that stuck out in my mind. She is liking this Independence and likes walking to the bus stop on the corner by herself. Johnny and I watch her from her bedroom window and call out I love yous as she walks down the street. She likes school but already looks forward to the weekends when she "gets a day off" and can't wait for summer to come again. Is she mimicking what she hears the older kids on the bus say? Who knows.

Well, that about sums it up!