First day of school

Sean's had a good week of First Grade and Clare is loving Pre-K!

Holiday Concert

Clare's preschool had a holiday concert on Monday - and Clare not only sang in the concert, but her dance class did a number, as a well! We arrived a little bit early to stake out seats and admire the set:

Sean enjoyed some time with his Grandma and Grandpa, as well:

After the younger classes went on, it was time for Clare's class - here she is going on stage:

And her little class altogether - they sang "Dreidel Dreidel" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" - Clare sang this year!  And she sang loudly!

Afterwards, Clare's dance class stayed behind and they five girls were supposed to do a dance to "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" but they seemed to get stage fright and the girls kind of swayed and twirled to the music - it was totally cute anyway :-)

Then, the whole school got up on stage together for a rousing rendition of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" - Clare kind of scowled through most of the song, but she sang the song, too :-)

Nine days

Yesterday, Clare was playing with some wooden toys next to another child and the two started to argue. The child hit Clare on the forehead with the toy - owie! Rather than retaliate (hooray, Clare!!), she went to her teacher to show her the "injury."  The toy left quite a mark and a little bit of a scrape, but Clare insisted that she needed a band-aid.  The teacher relented and sent her to the nurse's office.  After the nurse applied the bandage, she set out to meet the school's requirements for when a bandage is applied - including calling me at work to make me aware of the injury and preparing a "Boo-Boo Report."  Ha!  Nine days in and Clare is already creating unnecessary paperwork :-)

The worst part of the whole thing was taking that bandage off of Clare's little forehead last night - it was not easy and it was not pretty.  But she's all better tonight!