My Baby in Kindergarten!!

In two weeks, Gus, who just turned five, will begin kindergarten. He will attend the Twin Cities German Immersion School in St. Paul full days, five days a week. He's been working with a German computer program for a few months, and enjoys it, although his only concern so far has been will he be able to speak English at all at school. My concern is the two-hours+ drive Susanna and I will take every day to get him there and pick him up. I wasn't really thinking that through when we made the decision!

But so far we've been really impressed with the school. It's a charter school that's in its sixth year with students in K-6. There are two classes for each grade, so it's about the size of the elementary school I attended. The community is very active and welcoming; the PTO meets at a local bar. I know we're German, but I think that's way awesome. We have an open house next week to meet his teacher and see his classroom. Every day it seems more real.

I know Susanna will miss him, or at least be upset that she can't go to school. We have a few incidents last year at preschool where Gus would cry because he wanted to go home and Susanna would cry because she wanted to stay! I think we will enjoy our time together though; she's kind of my mini-me.

Sean has started traveling again for work. He alternates between southern California & San Antonio. I'd love to go with and make a long weekend out of it sometime because I have friends in both areas. I'm teaching my third class this year, which will be over at the end of the month. We didn't do much this summer because of weather and time, and I didn't get the kids involved in anything because I figured this is our last summer before school starts and we get caught up in activities. So we just hung out. Susanna likes to read books to herself and Gus likes to make up stories and have me film him on my pocket video camera. I'll have to figure out how to upload them better. They mostly involve Rudolph, his stuffed reindeer, Mr. Hat, Rudolph's reindeer father, and Zebrey, Rudolph's zebra grandfather. Don't ask!