Today was Augie's first day of preschool.  Not surprisingly, when I dropped him off in his classroom and gave him a kiss goodbye he could not have cared less that I was leaving him and was very excited to play with all of the new-to-him-toys.  When I picked him up this afternoon I had to fill out an incident report because he had a boo boo near his lip from tripping over a toy on the floor and poking himself with whatever it was he was holding in his hand at the time.  It wasn't until we were brushing his teeth tonight that Andrew and I realized he had a pretty bad boo boo on the inside of his lip too :(  School also wore the boy out.  Even Mrs. Hogan, Beata's teacher, noted that he looked exhausted when I arrived to pick him up.  He looked like he was in a fog and didn't even show much interest in playing at the water table they had out which he normally would have been all over.  When we got in the car I asked he and Beata to tell me three things that they did at school and Augie was able to come up with these:

" Play with alligator."
"Got boo boo."
"Eat."

Tonight as I was putting him to bed I said, "Augie today was your first day of school with Miss Laurie, did you have fun?"

"Yes! Go back!," he said :)

Elek had his pretest for kindergarten this morning.  After testing him the teacher came out of the room and said, "OK, wow."  She apologized for taking so long but said that she had to move on to the first grade sight words.  Elek said that he got stuck on the word "oil" and another that he couldn't remember. While alone with her (Andrew was outside with Elek), I let her know that I was concerned about his ability to make friends.  She said, "well I can tell that he is very mature.  He is the first one that I have tested who has sat still during the whole test and hasn't tried to get up and walk around the room."  Andrew and I were so proud of him and I wish I could have captured the look of pride on Elek's face when he got in the car.  He was beaming.  Andrew and I had worked the test up like it was a big deal and told him that he was taking his OWLs, a test given to the wizards and witches in HP so I think he was a little nervous beforehand and then both relieved and excited to have breezed through it.  After we said goodbye to Andrew I took Elek out to get an Italian ice from a little smoothie/icy shop down the street.  He LOVED it and kept saying, "this is a really nice date, isn't it?"  I realized that it had been forever since I had done something fun with just him and it made me wish that I had been better about doing it far more often.  Never too late to make changes though so I plan to make dates with my boys just as frequent as the girlie dates I go on with my B. After our dessert date we went home and he asked if we could play Taboo.  I thought the game was too advanced for him but agreed to teach him how to play.  Boy was I wrong, the kid got it right away and enjoyed both guessing words given my clues and providing clues himself, carefully avoiding the words that were off limits.  Later in the afternoon we taught Beata how to play and she got the hang of it right away too.  Tonight we played with Andrew briefly.  It is so exciting that they are reading well enough to play word-based board games with just a little bit of assistance!!

On Sunday, Chris and Christena had us over for bbq and swimming so tonight I made chicken pot pie and they came over to our house.  The kids got along great, wielding makeshift weapons at tree trunks and a flipped over row boat that has been sitting in our backyard.  I'm hoping that their friendship can develop into the kind that I treasured with my neighborhood buds, Nicky and Marcus.