Wedding dancing

Need I say more.

Face Paint

Out of the blue, Stanley asked for his face to be painted. Julia had to return stuff to the party store anyways, so she got some face paints while she was there. Take a look at her handy work. Pretty good if you ask me. It's a Batman day, in case you didn't notice...

New Words

Him: "What are those?"

Me: "Pits."

Him (after thinking for a while): "Just like the Rancor pit!" 

Me: "Yup, just like that." (Glowing a little)

He has a book with Lego figures that tells most of the story from "Return of the Jedi" and we have read it about 1.4 million times. Apparently he is learning stuff from it. He will grow up to be a good little Star Wars fan. Maybe. 

My concern at this point is that his Lego book is spoiling the plot and all the surprise of Star Wars. But I already know the story, and that doesn't stop me from wanting to watch the movies any more. 

Off to school

Stanley started school this past Tuesday. 

When he ended last year back in July, we were in a routine of 

- stanley happily eat his breakfast, but stall like crazy

- stanley whine about going to school and 

- Stanley cry and grab onto us when we go to leave him at school. 

He seems to love school in general once he is there and always talks fondly of his friends at school. However he sure didn't like the transition independent of how many 'maps' we drew of his morning and what was coming, or timers we would set for each action, or discussions the night before, or lack there of discussions. 

We were happy that at least the first day of school was a happy drop of. 

and it helped that his previous nannyshare buddy is now going to school with him.