Ethan had his first day of school today. As I tucked him in tonight, I asked him how he felt about today. He told me that it was even better than he expected! Yeah!!!
Ethan had his requested breakfast this morning. We had scrambled eggs and bacon. Our whole family sat at the table and ate breakfast together at the same time. Eating breakfast together rarely happens! I didn’t have the dishes cleared before Ethan and Audrey were begging to start. It wasn’t even 7:30 yet! I held them off for an hour and then Ethan and I had a little talk about expectations. I told him that I wanted him to enjoy learning and that a lot of the time he would really like it, but that sometimes he might not want to do what I was asking of him, but I needed him to do it anyway. I told him that I didn’t want this time to be full of arguing.
He did really well. My biggest challenges were keeping Isaac happy and explaining to Audrey over and over that it wasn’t time to glue anything yet! Ethan gave me no trouble at all.
Here he is with the easel that I remembered was in our storage room. I printed out some calendar and weather cards and laminated them:
One of the best parts of doing school at home is cuddling with Daddy while learning about science:
I’m very proud of my boy! I’m so glad that he enjoys learning!
