First day of Kindergarten

This was Buster's first day of Kindergarten. He only had a short day of orientation, and Ben and I rode the bus with him. The bus driver is the same man who drove all through my years at Gananda, too. Peter and Nathan waved, wanting to get on and go to school with us. Buster does very well at school. He adjusted immediately to being at school for a full day, and he never complains about going. Every afternoon he bursts off the school bus, happy and excited. He is really such a good kid.

I've been having bad luck getting my photos to post right side up on Blogger. There are tons more that I want to publish but they all upload sideways. This one of Buster's first day of Kindergarten is the only one that uploads correctly. Sorry for the long delay in updating our blog. If I can figure out how to rotate the photos, I will post the rest of them so you can see what we've been doing since July.

Snakes

The boys had a lot of fun playing outside this summer. Here, Nate is enjoying the simplest of pleasures, and my filming him is interrupted by Pete's discovery of another snake. To our surprise - and Ben's disgust - Peter turned out to be a master snake hunter. On one warm afternoon in September, he caught over 30 snakes from the side yard of my mom's house and heaped them into his tote for viewing, feeding, and likely breeding. At one point, he thought they were getting hot in the sun so he poured a little water in the tote. When he saw a snake dive under the water and then resurface, he exclaimed, "Look! The snake knows how to baptize himself!"

After Buster got home from school that afternoon, he wanted in on all the slimy fun so Peter divided up the snakes. Here he is choosing a "wild" one for Buster.