Oh what a day! Besides the obvious niceties (running errands, happy stories, a trip to the blueberry patch) Lex surprised me by joining us for dinner tonight! Alan said he joined them for dinner last night, but I wasn’t around so it doesn’t count! :) Tonight he ate about three full carrots and half a cucumber (cumbercue, he calls them, just to make me laugh) and he sat with us the whole time. He even smelled the rest of the dinner and asked what was in it. Oh happy day!

Then… to top off the evening, he got his tooth out!! All by himself! For the past few days he’s been letting Alan and I wiggle it and gently pull on it. Tonight he said it was really loose and while we read stories he worked on it. He figured out that he could push it in such a way that it seemed to get looser, so he did. While we were laying down (lights out, all settled) he said, “I think it’s out!” Lights back on, lots of cheering and jumping about. Yay! He has been so brave lately. I really admire him and I’m so proud of how rational he can be, when given the chance. We are working on big (for him) changes around here and he’s holding up really well. I think I need to go squeeze him now! :)

Lex had his kindergarten orientation today. It was rather uneventful. He was “excited and just a little bit nervous” as we got to school. I told him there would be four kids in his group so he got a little bit more nervous when he saw a parking lot full of cars. I guess I had forgotten to tell him it was a school day and there would be four in his group, but a whole school full of kids as well. He did fine. They brought my into a room to do paperwork and he went away happily with the principal. Afterwards he told me he built a block tower with someone and did some other things, but he couldn’t remember what. His favorite part was that he got an extra snack today! They had graham crackers and apple juice. He told me he said no thank you to the apple juice and they let him get a drink of water from the fountain instead. He was a little sad that they wouldn’t give him another graham cracker (probably didn’t have enough time), but I bought him some at the store today and he was thrilled :) Sometimes it’s the easy things that are the best. Anyway, a non-eventful event, I suppose. He seems to be no more or less excited about kindergarten in the fall. I think he still wants to stay at pre-k. :)