Wednesday Mornings...A New Adventure

The boys have started going weekly to Wednesday morning school, as our family affectionately calls it. Charles and I decided that the boys would benefit from an enrichment morning with other students their age. Therefore, as of a couple of weeks ago, Jack and Theo have started in Heritage Academy's Enrichment Program. It is just a little four hour a week program designed for home-schoolers. They cover four subjects literature, music, physical education, and science. An added benefit is that they get to be in the same class since kindergarten through second grade are together. Initial signs are that they love it.

Here is a picture of them before they left on their first day:

Half way through the first day we got a call from the school - every parent's nightmare. They told us that Theo had been stung by a wasp, not once, but twice!  They said he was initially very upset but that he was now calm. They said he was showing no allergic reaction and they thought he would likely carry on as normal. However, they wanted to tell us so that we could chose whether to come check on him or not. We thought probably best to just get him at the normal time given that he was calm by the time we got the call.

When I picked Theo up I immediately said 'Theo show me where you got stung. I am so sorry that happened to you'. He quickly told me that it had already healed. He wasn't the slighted phased!  In fact, he is now known as the 'boy who got stung' by all his classmates! Sad as it was that he got stung on his first day away at school, I think overall it was a bonding moment for the class. A few days later we got a letter in the mail from his teacher consoling him and telling him how proud she was of how he rebounded after being stung twice. What a memory!