Kindergarten

Wyatt has been LOVING Kindergarten. Half-days are perfect for him and for us....he is pretty tired most days and still takes a nap 3-4 days a week. And we're still adjusting to having school everyday, so half-days are a good stepping stone to 1st grade when he'll be everyday, all day.
If you ask Wyatt what he likes most about Kindergarten, he'll say riding the bus. But he is learning a lot already and is so excited to show us the new things he has learned and can do on his own. School has definitely 'awakened' a desire to learn within him and he is constantly asking questions and wanting to learn more--YEAH!!!!

He came home last week with this picture in his backpack. They were told to cut out shapes and make a picture and this was what he did.
Matt and I looked at it and were so impressed by several things.

#1-he wrote everyone's name in our family and put himself last, which we hope is no coincidence but that he is learning to live like Jesus Christ and be a servant, putting other's needs first

#2-he built a house (presumably our house) with a sun shining and a heart next to it

Hopefully this reflects how he feels about our home and our family.

Another observation from school......My in-laws were in town last week 9along with my sister-in-law) to visit us and celebrate my brother-in-law's birthday (he is going to college up here now). While we were all at dinner, my mother-in-law asked Wyatt about school and one of the things he shared with us all around the table was, "We can't say peanuts and presents at school. We have to say Nuts and Gifts."

We all chuckled a bit and then asked him to clarify for us, but indeed he had said what we thought he had said. Of course then we all started laughing because it just sounded so funny, to which he became a bit embarassed and insisted that this was 'for real'! I told him I would figure out what his teacher meant. So yesterday, I included a not in his backpack for his teacher and she responded today......

"Wyatt is referring to our alphabet chart. We say N is for Nuts, not peanuts. And G is for Gift, so we don't call it a present when referencing the letter on our chart. This is too funny."

So now it all made sense! I explained it to Wyatt and he got a grin on his face as he understood that he was in fact allowed to use the words "peanuts" and "presents", but that when talking about their alphabet chart they needed to use the appropriate words for the corresponding letters!

School pictures (just got them today!!)

And his class---have I said how thankful I am that his class is only 16 kids?!?!