Kian at School

Kian's first piece of artwork, painted at school in November.

Kian has been at La Escuelita Bilingual School for about a month and a half, and we are so happy with it. After a couple weeks, the crying during drop-offs stopped. Now, as we walk toward the building he smiles at his little friends, who are looking out from the window with beaming faces. The other day, one kid walked over and gave Kian a little orange and blue basketball, probably knowing that it's one of Kian's favorite things to play with at school. A few kids are 4-5 months older than Kian and are even saying his name when they see him.

Here's a photo of Kian clamoring up to greet me in the afternoon. It's a bit of an odd angle because I didn't want to get other children's faces in the shot and have to deal with parent signature release forms for posting their images on the web. :)



Kian's fleece "Panda Book" is his form of a security blanket. We have several of them between school, home, and grandparents' house. The original was given to him by Uncle Rob, Aunt Marti, and their daughters, Clare and Rachel. Kian sleeps with it, and it helped during the transition period morning drop offs, when he'd clutch it tightly.

Here's a series of photos of Kian putting it back into his storage drawer at school.