open house

look closely, this is the deceivingly sweet face of a boy who will be driving his kindergarten teacher mad! we had open house tonight and they had a ball seeing old friends. i chose to just meet n greet his teacher (i hadn't met him yet) and i'll fill him in a little more tomorrow. i heard him tell another parent, (who just said she's afraid her son won't sit down) oh that's fine, they'll all get used to it and be just fine. i'm thinking, well maybe not *quite* all of them! i do know he's (usually) good at church, although his teachers there are aware of his background and are just amazingly sweet. i'm hoping school goes well, but i know he'll be frustrated because he won't get all the concepts or be able to do everything, which will lead to acting out. so i figure i'll lower my expectations so i'm not disappointed. :) he was in sensory overload tonight with so many people and noises all around, i'm sure it'll be an issue for a while during the school days. i had to pick him up and rub his back to help, he was just flopping around acting all nuts. i hope he'll get used to it!
em was surprisingly happy, even bragging a little to her friends that she was homeschooling. i think it helped that today i told her more fun activities we could do. for her first math, we'll bake cupcakes (measuring, adding, temperature), put on icing (maybe patterns or textures), then add and subtract with the sprinkles. :) so she was happy to see friends, and sad to leave them, but still seems excited to be home, so that's good. hopefully it'll be a smooth start to the year. oh, i said lower my expectations. then hopefully we'll just survive the beginning and see how it goes. :)