A Bonding Moment

We attended a new student orientation at Angie's school tonight. We met her teacher and saw the classroom--complete with a blue bin with Angie's name on it. The kids were allowed to explore the room and play with things until the ice cream social started.

I'm thrilled because there are ten students in Angie's class: seven boys and three girls.

A cute little boy named Aiden came in with his mom and baby brother. Aiden has long white-blond curls which are clearly too beautiful to cut. He ran straight to the Legos and began building a city. Angie found her way over there and supplemented his construction with tall towers made from wooden building blocks. She informed everyone that they were building the state of Ohio. They were busy, busy, busy.

Suddenly, Angie cried out, "Can we build it?!!" Aiden paused, then shouted, "Yes we can!"

Angie looked thoroughly pleased.

They ran around the big kids playground together with Evan, another child in their class looking for bad guys. I heard Aiden call them to action, "Come on Superheroes! Let's go find the bad guys!" And they were off.

Chas turned to me early in the evening and said, "I have to watch him, don't I?