The boys started new schools today, and we had been preparing them mentally the past couple of days.  This morning after Logan woke up, he discovered that he could not play games and he was slightly grumpy about it.  Then when he and I were sitting together, he told me that he was nervous to go to the new place and that he might cry.  I tried to be positive and had him focus on the fun aspect of camps.  Both Stuart and I were a bit worried about how their drop off would go, but fortunately it went quite well.

   Connor and I accompanied Logan to the school where the summer camp was held.  We asked for a quick tour and a camp leader showed Logan and us around.  Logan looked expressionless but he was following instruction well about where to put his backpack and where to go.  When it was time to go inside, Logan did not say bye to us and just followed the crowd to walk in.  I could tell that he was nervous as he was picking his nails, but at least he did not cry or show any hesitation.  When Connor and I arrived at his new school, he was happy as he recognized the place from the open house few months ago.  He was telling me how there were similar structures at his old school.  While we were walking in, he did tell me how he missed his teachers and the one teacher who used to chase him around in the mornings.  Once we were inside the classroom, Connor was holding on to me tighter.  We walked around the room to familiar him to different things, especially the bathroom and the sink area.  Connor showed me how he could wash his hands there.  Afterward we said hi to the second teacher who just came in.  Miss Julie talked to Connor about Duplo and he agreed to stay to play with her.  I then said goodbye to him and left.

    Stuart and I went together to pick up the boys at the end of the day.  We arrived at Logan’s school first; by the time we spotted him in the extended care room, he was just walking around so we did not see what he was doing prior to that.  He was happy to see us and he told us that he had fun.  We tried to get some information about how the day went, but we got nothing.  He kept changing his answer so many times that we did not even find out how many classmates in his team.  He did tell us that he saw a couple of schoolmates he knew from the previous school and he shared a couple things he learned about the “Human Body” as it was the theme for this week camp.  One more thing he did say was that he did not have to use his pencils even once today.  As soon as we walked in to Connor’s class, I saw the teacher sitting down talking to the kids and there were a few kids standing around her.  Connor was one of them; he was raising his hand and saying something to the teacher.  Once Connor saw us, he smiled but froze there for a little bit before he finally ran over to us for a hug.  He also told us that he had a good day and the school had a fire drill.  But after that, he told us few other things that he just made up for us.  We might have to install a hidden camera in order to find out what these boys are doing during the day.