Little Milestones

Nick is now 4 months old, and his big brother started Kinder yesterday (that's the australian word for preschool). Daniel loved it, and really didn't look back, barely even said goodbye to me (he did do a 3 year old preschool in the U.S.). Laura would have stayed if I had let her. I told her we could go get her a lunchbag too, and go home and paint too, all like Daniel. She felt proud after that. But everything we did at home had a mention of Daniel in it, from the painting (I wrote her name on a painting -and she wanted daniel's name on it too), to lunch ("I'll save one for Daniel"). She misses him. Not the sad teary kind of missing him, just a natural tendency to include him in everything since he's normally there. Very sweet. I think she and Nick will become good friends during the time Daniel's at school (2 full school days per week), so it'll be fun for Laura to get to be just the big sister. They wear uniforms here at most schools. Kinder/Preschools are often actually at a school, so they wear the same uniform as all the other kids. He is pretty obsessed with any clothes that are dark (to be scary) or stripey (to be a tiger), so the uniform didn't get a huge reception, but he wore it without too much issue. After school he was sitting on the porch waiting for me to unlock the door, looking pretty spaced out, and I asked him if he was tired. "Yeah, but I sure did love it mum." Gotta love that. 4 months old and able to hold himself up much better for these photos now. Very proud of himself for being able to roll onto his tummy and look around! Falling asleep copying Laura's doll... Yeah, smart kid, waving at 4 months. :) I'll take the smile behind the blanket though! The kids with Big Opa and GrandMarie (great grandfather and grandma)