'Twas the Night Before Kindergarten....

Tomorrow is the first day of school for Anders and we all have jitters.
Yesterday was the open house and he was very shy and quite scared.
That's pretty typical for the way he has approached all of his preschool, so it was not a surprise.

He woke up this morning and told us a dream he had during the night about a mama cat and her kitten. The mama walked with her kitten to the zoo and put her kitten in a cage. She was going to leave him there. She said she might come back.

This is the same kid who after turning 5 had a dream he was holding onto a baby blanket and his grip was slipping, and he was falling off the planet.
His night life is filled with metaphor, and clearly he is working lots of complicated things out as he sleeps.

I of course am working hard to manage my own anxiety.
Stay tuned....I'm sure I will need to be writing a lot here to discharge some of the emotion I feel!

Bedtime Confessions

We were talking about things we are good at tonight as I was putting Anders to bed.
The two things he said he was good at:

1. Playing
2. Loving

You betcha!

Hay Boys!

Number ONE Favorite Toy in our House

Animals.....Anders and Kuba have an unlimited number of ways to play with animals....and here is just one example...an animal circus. They circled up all of the animals in the animal basket and then took turns doing circus tricks with another animal in the center.
If you have kids and you don't have plastic/stuffed/or imaginary animals it's a wise idea to get them. I can tell you that a day has not gone by (in five and one half years) where there hasn't been some form or imaginary animal play.

Judge Von Walker - Clearly Brilliant

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