End of Summer and off to School

David started at St. James, a Montessori school near our house, last week. Consistent with his personality and our past experience with new caregiver situations,the transition has not been a smooth one. One of his teacher's commented today that the only time he calms down and stops crying is when he is getting one-on-one attention (shocker, right?). 

I got a picture of us heading off to school for his "first" day last week. The picture is kind of a fraud because, as some of you know, this picture was taken on Monday when we got all dressed and headed out to school to find no one there. Turns out that his actual first day was Tuesday. After going through the "off to school" routine again on Tuesday, I forgot the camera.

Matt has been and will continue to be through this week in trial, so David and I have had lots of bonding time. Here are some of the fun things we have been doing....

At the waterfall park with Paytin, who came up to visit us last weekend:

Waiting on the valet after dinner with Aunt Hayley and Mommy at Central 214 (it was restaurant week in Dallas):

At lunch with Aunt Hayley and Mommy at Rise this past weekend. This is our solution to us being able to going out to dinner...the ipad!

 At the Children's Museum this past Sunday. We had to find something to do inside because it is so freaking hot here in Dallas.

  

When David and I got home today, he really wanted to play outside. I was in the kitchen making dinner, so I could see him out of the back window and let him go. He played by himself for 20 minutes. This is quite amazing since it is the first time he has ever done anything for more than a minute by himself.  As refreshing as this new independent behavior might be, David did manage to get completely soaked trying to fill up his pool and get paint all over his face.