First Day at Building School--Update

The boys' first day of school:

We were going to walk the boys down to their respective classrooms. The children all start out in the gym in the mornings, and then their teachers come and fetch them class by class. Well, once they got in the gym and Spiff saw where his class was to sit, he climbed right up into the bleachers. He sat next to the friendliest boy in the class, started talking, and that was it. He was fine with waiting to walk with the rest of the kids; he wanted to talk with his new friend.

Entropy Boy evidently had a point during the day when he asked his teacher if she had seen his big brother. She said she hadn't, but she knew where his classroom was. She walked EB down to Spiff's classroom and let him peek in the window so he could see Spiff. EB was fine after that; he knew where his brother was.

Today we got to the school about 5 minutes before the teachers started leading the children down to the classrooms. Spiff wanted to just be dropped off. EB wanted me to walk in with him. As it turned out, traffic was so busy that I dropped them both off. Spiff didn't wait for his little brother, but I comforted myself in knowing that there was less than 5 minutes before EB's teacher would come and fetch the kids. He didn't really have much time to get lost or confused. He'll be ok. We talked in the car about his brain needing to get used to the noise in the gym while waiting for the teacher. It will be hard, but eventually he will get used to it--just like his big brother has to work on learning names and actually remembering them. Spiff inherited my inability to remember names and dates. Poor kid.