Monday morning was Simon's parent-teacher conference. Alice, as a rising kindergartner, had hers earlier. The school was closed for the day, so the plan was for us to both attend the conference with the kids (they have a waiting area in the hall for them) and then I (having taken the day off) would take the kids to a nearby park for the morning. Simon did not like the idea of going to school for even a few minutes and wanted to go right to the park. The whole drive to school, Alice and I worked on him so that he would understand the plan and not have a breakdown when we arrived. We were successful.
The teachers didn't really have anything surprising to say about Simon. They said he loves eating his fruit and he loves it when we send leftover spaghetti for lunch, but not so much the tuna noodle casserole. They said he needs to learn to speak up more and advocate for himself. Alas, the fate of being Alice's younger brother!
They also gave us some of his artwork.
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| That's probably how God did it too. |
After the conference, Alice gave us a tour of the school gardens they planted on Earth Day last week.
Then we headed to the park!
