Last Full Day of First Grade

DuckyBoy is doing great handling the transition from first to second grade. Last year at this time he was a basket case, aggressive and sad and scared.

This year, he's been a little "off" but overall no big slip like we saw last spring.

And, he has a new friend to ease the transition: We're the summer home for Supergirl, the mommy Chinese dwarf hamster from his classroom. We got her yesterday afternoon. He wanted to have her sleep in his room last night, but since the critters are nocturla, she kept running in her wheel so he reluctantly asked me to move her back to the playroom.

When he got up this morning, he immediately moved her habitat from the cabinet to the small table in front of the couch where he sits to watch TV.

And a bit later he said, "A live hamster is more fun to watch than the TV."

And for him, that's saying something!

We --mostly he, with minor assitance from me -- changed her water and had to be stopped from cleaning and misting her habitat! (I had to explain that the mister is for cleaning, not misting her daily like we had to do for the Madagascar hissing cockroaches.)