3 Years Old

Happy Birthday Alex.

Wow how time flies.  We had a parent/teacher conference at his school on Tuesday to discuss his report card.  Yep, he’s being graded already.  Ok, so it was on stuff like how well he knows his shapes and colors (he says Pink instead of Purple … but don’t look to me to help correct that one).  The teacher asked us again if I or anyone we knew played drums since he does that so often during the day.  We did learn that the school does piano lessons and so we’ll probably start that next year when he’s closer to 4.

This January he’ll be transitioning to the 3-6 year old room.  But he has to be potty trained before that.  The teacher assured us that they’ve never had a child not be potty trained before making the move.  In fact, we were told that his best friend Nick is already on his way to learning that, so it won’t take Alex long after that.  He did go a few hours in regular underwear on Monday before he had an accident.  All part of the training and thank you for the school.

So we can say with great confidence that when we go to Disney World in January, he’ll be potty-trained.

We also learned that Alex is part of a clique.  Him and Nick always sit at the same lunch table as Olive and Anna.  And if one of them gets up, they are always sure to “save their spots.”  Olive and Anna are transitioning to the other room next week, so that should help with the desire to learn how to use the potty so that he can move downstairs and hang out with them.

All this week Sara’s parents have been in town to celebrate Alex’s birthday and play with him.  They watched him all day Tuesday and Wednesday.  They’re worn out.  Today, being his birthday, we brought him back to school so that he could celebrate with his friends and share cupcakes and little goodie bags.  He’s real excited about the cupcakes.

He did get 1 more.