We were a little nervous about how she would be leaving Jen for the first time since the boys had a hard time. I can’t even count the times that Alex was in tears after being dropped off. Well, not Caroline. She had her Elmo backpack, lunch box, sleeping mat, and she was ready to go. The very first day she just walked right up there and that was it.

I dropped her off the other day and as we pulled into the parking lot of school she got all excited and started yelling, “dool, dool”.

Here’s her picture from the first day

Yesterday she also came home with her very first piece of artwork. I guess they were talking about all the snow we’ve had the last couple of days. She was very proud of the white paint she did because she would point to it and say “paint”.

Somehow he came across my blog entry from last year where I posted Alex’s picture of the Statue of Liberty. He was working on a web page for his site on the Statue of Liberty and he wanted to use Alex’s picture on the web page.

We let him use the picture and you can see the final web page along with a statue of liberty poem here: http://www.history-for-kids.com/statue-of-liberty-poem.html.

So yesterday Andrew finished up his school year and he came home with his art work and take a guess what was in the package. Race Track art.

We also made the lines on the dress to make it look like it was real.

Alex: The lines on the outside of the guitar are vibrations.

Me: Why did you decide to do a guitar?

Alex: We had to.

Me: So they didn’t give you a choice?

Alex: No.

Me. Ok. Is there anything else you want to share about your work?

Alex: Yes. I picked the colors red and blue for the guitar because they are my favorite colors.

Me: How did you pick the colors for the lines?

Alex: Are art teacher put expo sharpies into two buckets and we got to pick five or four at a time and we got to do whatever colors we wanted.

Me: Very nice. Anything else?

Alex: No.

Me: Ok, thanks.

Alex: Uh, Dad, this wasn’t my first piece of art made.

Dad: Yes, but it’s the first one you picked to put on the website.

Alex: Oh.

Dad: So, tell me about it.

Alex: Hmm. We were making flowers and we got to make our own flower.

Dad: Ok, what type of flower did you do?

Alex: I don’t know.

Dad: How did you pick the colors?

Alex: We got to pick the colors by chalk. My colors were yellow, green, and blue. We put those colours on the leaves.

Dad: How did you do the background?

Alex: I used a black Sharpie.

Dad: Very nice. I like it.

Alex: I picked the middle color to be blue.

Dad: Why?

Alex: It’s my favorite color.