Simon officially started the school year yesterday as a Blue Bird with a new teacher and a few new classmates. We like to report positive things here in Kagledom but, if we were to only report positive things about his first day of school this post would end after the following line:

Simon's teacher reports that he ate well and enjoyed Spanish and guitar playing.

If we report the negative things that happened, we can continue with this:

Simon's teacher reports that he tore down some blinds, threw things across the room, shoved a cup of milk in the face of a fellow classmate at lunch, and may have hit one or more people.

Being in school and behaving badly were not necessarily connected. Even before we took him to school he spent time in the timeout chair for hitting Matthew and, after school, he spent time in the timeout chair several times for hitting Hava. Last night he intentionally dumped his crackers and raisins on the floor and when Hava asked him to help pick them up, he started to fling them across the room. At bath time he threw water at Hava when she made him mad. At story time he said he didn't want to have anything to do with Curious George or Blast Off! A Space Counting Book. He calmed down after Hava began "Mama, Do You Love Me?" He wanted to talk about the page where the little girl tries to be careful but falls and drops the eggs she is carrying and is sad, and the place where the Mama gives the little girl a hug and a kiss, and, of course, where the little girl makes the Mama angry by putting lemmings in her mukluks; this part is hysterical.

He continues to eat as much or more than his parents at every meal and he is exhausted even after a three-hour-plus nap and eleven-hours at night so we imagine, this will pass, and, in the end, he will be even taller.