First Parent-Teacher Conference

I just got back from my very first Parent-Teacher conference at Magnus' school. Max was concerned that this was a bad sign that his teacher, Miss Cindy, was requesting to meet up with one of us but I knew that it was just to keep the lines of communication open. I left work early so I can attend and met Cindy & the class at their playground. Magnus was so happy to see me and was actually willing to go home but I had to fib and tell him that I was going to the potty and that I'd be right back because he wanted to head back inside with Cindy and I.

Magnus is in a new classroom but with his same teacher that was in his Toddler classroom. He is now in the Prepper classroom and it is much bigger with all new toys and furniture. For the first few weeks, the walls were bare and just begging for artwork from the kids. When we went inside, I noticed that Cindy had taken a lot of pictures of the kids and had them all over the walls. She also had all of their artwork plastered everywhere!

As I was viewing all of the pictures of Magnus playing with his peers, I started to get all emotional. There's this one picture of him sitting at the head of this rectangular table with all of his friends, and one little boy is talking and everyone is looking at him. Apparently whatever he was saying was hilarious to Magnus because he has this GINORMOUS smile on his face and his face is just lit up! Meanwhile all of the other kids faces are serious. Then there's this other picture where Magnus is smiling is so hard, I swear you can count every tooth in his mouth! One of the things Cindy said was that he is THE most animated kid she's ever met! And she has five children and five grandchildren so that's saying a lot!

She also told me that Magnus is the perfect child; very well-behaved, obedient, plays well with everyone, likes to help clean up, like to share, just an overall happy kid. He never gets disciplined like the other kids for doing bad things. Apparently the other children throw things, hit other kids (as well as the teachers!), or just won't listen. Magnus does none of these things. I could not be prouder. Cindy said if all the kids in her class were like Magnus, she'd have the easiest job ever! :)

He also loves to draw and color and is very interested in dinosaurs and other animals. Max took him to the zoo this past Sunday and they witnessed the elephants getting a bath. I guess during their bath, the water stimulated their bowels because the elephants' tails went straight up, and out came a BIG plop of poop to which Magnus asked Max "what was that???" with wide eyes of course! It is now Wednesday and Magnus is still telling Miss Cindy and his classmates of the "biiiig elephant poop". He also uses his hands to describe just how big the elephant poop really was!

He also loves music and is known to turn on Miss Cindy's iPod and request a specific song from the Sesame Street CD be played. He'll also just dance around even when nobody else is dancing. I love how free he feels where he knows he can dance like nobody is watching. I wish we all had that spirit in us...without looking like a lunatic of course!

Overall, we are very fortunate to have such a great kid. Whatever we're doing, we're doing it right and I couldn't be happier.

Until next time...