Birthday Snack

I can't believe Tyler is almost six. (I know I say I can't believe it every year, but it's true. The time just goes soooo fast.) This year Tyler has school on his birthday, so he gets to bring in the birthday snack.

I was kind of relieved he didn't want to bring in cupcakes. He wants a pirate ship birthday cake, which I'm attempting to make myself, so I was thankful I didn't have to do anything creative with cupcakes. (Although our frog cupcakes turned out cute last year.) Instead, he wanted to bring in dirt dessert. Fortunately this was a treat both the kids could help make.

Tyler informed me tonight that I really should have purchased some sort of drink to bring in, too, because all the other moms have brought drinks in with their birthday snacks. I panicked for a minute and then decided I didn't really care what the other moms did. Free water is good enough. Besides, if I had to pick between spending $6 on juice boxes or buying the real oreos, real oreos would win. I'm sure all the other moms would agree with me.

Tyler had a much better day at school yesterday. The teacher moved the kids' desks around, so Tyler is now sitting beside "a really nice girl". What I really appreciated about his teacher was that she moved several people, not just Tyler, so he wasn't singled out. I volunteered to help in the lunchroom, and yesterday was my first day. Tyler was glad to see me and proudly pointed out Danielle and me to his teacher and classmates. I got to talk to his teacher face to face and was able to personally remind Tyler to behave himself. (Sometimes you need to be reminded half way through the day!) It was fun to see Tyler and the other kindergarteners. There are several kids in our neighborhood that started kindergarten this year. It was neat to see them away from their parents and happily functioning in their new roles. Tyler was very well behaved at lunch, but when there's food involved, he's usually all business anyway.

Danielle had a really good morning at preschool today, too. She was all smiles when I picked her up. She said the little boy that had been picking on her sat across from her during snack today. She said he was making faces at her so she decided to make faces back. I guess the two of them started giggling about it and she ended up thinking the whole thing was pretty funny. Not exactly how I would have imagined our prayer being answered, but sounds to me like God is working things out.