Bye-bye, bumblebees

We spent a lovely weekend with Satya Chacha (Yogesh's Uncle), at his hotel (photo from the pool/courtyard area) in Yuba City, California; where he is on a summer research assignment (he's a professor of Anthropology @ the University of Saskatchewan in Canada).

The summer here in San Francisco has been particularly cold & foggy this year, and we'd never been to Yuba City, so we were so happy to have the 2 days of unadulterated bright-blue skies, a pool and hot-tub (latter treated as a kiddie-pool of course) and warm balmy evenings.

The weekend also marks a milestone - last Friday Deven 'graduated' from his first classroom ever, and is no longer a Bumblebee at Holy Family Day Home. Tomorrow he starts as a Kangaroo - and instead of having 13 other "young 2s" as classmates (most, but not all, potty-trained) & 3 teachers, he'll have 23 other fully-potty-trained 3-year old classmates & still just 3 teachers. Frankly, the idea of 24 screaming 3-year olds in a 8:1 ratio sends a shiver down my spine - I have no idea how his teachers Megan, Tahoe, and Jenny (who he knew before briefly in Bumblebees) are going to do it. This is 1 example of why he's already in preschool and I'm not a stay-at-home Mom. :)

Yogesh said that both he and teacher Victoria in the Bumblebees classroom got a little verklempt on Friday when we realized it was Deven's last day in that classroom. Deven, of course, has been prepared for the transition, with visits to the classroom and lots of discussions and meetings with the new teachers - so I have no fear of his transition - I'm more worried that I'll pop into the Bumblebees classroom and start hanging his sweater on his old hook, before stares from the new kids make me laugh and go to the classroom. Besides, in Bumblebees, Deven had been hanging out with another classmate, who will go into the other classroom for 3-year olds; this isn't altogether bad, as I blame him for Deven's rascally statements of late... *grin*.

Rohan is doing well - has been saying "NO!" with gusto (along with many other words in his growing vocabulary) for a few months now, and is as cute and charming and difficult as any 19-month old little brother can be.

It seems like just yesterday, we were leaving Deven at HFDH in tears every morning...and now he leaves us happily, and comes home chattering about school every night. Tomorrow, we have a short-day for the first day in the new classroom - I suspect as much for the teachers to get their bearings with the new kids, as for the kids. We will see how the first day of Year 2 goes!