First school artwork
At Carson’s school they are having “red week” so he wore a red shirt today and made this lovely red collage! They asked parents to bring red stuff that they could use. I brought a big piece of this Spider Man wrapping paper. They said it was a big hit with the boys! Carson has no idea who Spider Man is, but he talks about him a lot now and even pointed him out on a t shirt a few days later.
School starts at 8:30 which means I am battling commuters on the way to school. Last week it took me a solid 25 minutes (the same drive takes me a max of 15 at other times) so Ben suggested I go through the neighborhood and miss the really heavy congestion. That was my plan, but when I left I was on autopilot and started going the normal way and I got stuck. I was in a line of traffic that went through at least 8 cycles of lights before I got through. I watched that light turn green, yellow and red without moving an inch multiple times. It was so frustrating. I finally got through, went through the neighborhood a different way than I’d planned and called the school to let them know we would be late. She said a few people had the same problem which made me feel better. When we got to school Carson cried and cried about going into the room, I think it was because one little boy was upset when we got there, and I don’t blame him for getting a little uncomfortable about going in there. He ended up doing fine the rest of the day. By the time Betsy and I got home it had been over an hour since the time we left. I was beat.
While Carson was at school Betsy and I spent some time at home, she actually took a short morning nap which doesn’t happen everyday. Then we had lunch and went to the grocery store before going to pick up Carson. He took a nap at school this time and was still very tired after we got home. I tried to get him to take a nap at home but he just sat in bed and never went to sleep. But Betsy took a good afternoon nap. I worked on a photo book for Betsy’s 1 year. I made one for Carson and I want to make sure that I at least do that much for Betsy. I probably won’t make one every year though, it takes a lot of time to sort through pictures, especially the way I take them…dozens of shots of the same thing for one good one.
At dinner tonight I noticed Carson had a red mark on his neck. I asked him what happened and he said, “A dinosaur got me!” I’d like to know the story behind that…
