John's First Day at School

I think Maureen has been looking forward to this day more than John has.  She's been prepping for it since the day he was born.  Over the last couple of weeks, John has been vacillating as to whether or not he was excited about school.  His biggest concern was that no one would play with him.  This weekend, he had a few episodes where he was sure that no one would play with him.  We assured him that there would always be someone to play with him since he knew about 1/3 of his classmates from Pre-School.  Anywho, he finally drifted off last night after Maureen told him that everything would be just fine and I started playing some Chet Baker.  When in doubt, play Chet Baker and the little one's drift off to the Kingdom of Nod (The Dreaming, not the place where Cain went after he murdered Abel) in no time.

Being the good mother that she is, Maureen woke up at 5:45 this morning to get ready for the big day.  John woke up between 6 and 6:30 this morning and complained that his alarm didn't go off.  I had to remind him that his alarm was set for 6 AM.  In any event, he was in fine spirits and even composed one of his improtu songs.  It had something to do with the sunshine.  That was a sign that things were going to be good today.

We headed to SBS listening to his favorite music, The Theme to Jaws.  Both he and Nicholas are quite obsessed with the music of John Williams.  I had tried to get them to watch Star Wars a while back, but they didn't want to.  Once they realized that the music of John Williams was in the movies, they thought it would be fun to watch.  Anywho, John walked right in and started interacting with his friends.  Nicholas was a bit upset because he wasn't going to be staying for the day.  I think it hit him harder than John.  We left after a "lovely" school assembly where the backpacks were blessed and all new students were welcomed.

After lunch with some classmates at Pitfire Pizza, we came home to get some rest and do some homework.  John just finished up his homework about 25 minutes ago and he was quite proud of that accomplishment.  Little does he know that it only gets worse.  We won't ruin the grand illusion for a while.  He needs to learn to love school.  He's too young to be jaded about the educational system.