[Nicolas] Cooker Baby

nicolas had a great halloween school day yesterday. he went to his new school first where they had this thing called Trunk or Treat - volunteers park their cars in the school yard and decorate their candy-filled trunks, and the kids go around to each car: Then they had a pizza party and a haunted house, where nicolas encountered a werewolf and skeleton: Then mary took him over to his old school to see his old friends and say hi and have some cupcakes:

muscle man! , originally uploaded by nolafilm . they're celebrating halloween today at nicolas' school, so he's going as muscle man. he's just making sure he has his mask ready to go before leaving. and he's off:

first day of school , originally uploaded by nolafilm . nicolas started at a new school this week. here he is posing in his new uniform. the week prior he scoped out the new class: . it's a gifted pre-k program at a public school here. mary got him tested a while back and he did really well, so they recommended placement in this program. the class is a lot smaller. there are 6 kids total, including two adorable 4-yr old Japanese twin girls who seem to really like him. He played some music with one of them, Joy, on his initial scoping-out session last week: he'll get a lot more teacher attention and interaction and hopefully have a lot of fun learning at an accelerated pace. overall he seems to have transitioned just fine from his old school (a lot better than we thought he would, and probably better than we did). when we mentioned it to him on Tuesday he said, "yeah, i don't go to that school anymore". though we may go back there for just a bit tomorrow for their

Nicolas has been doing great. I was gone for the first 12 days of October, but he and Mary were totally fine without me. He took a test for potential placement in a gifted program and did really well. And he's been so well behaved and so much fun lately. he stopped by my office earlier this week and enjoyed listening to some music on our cd player there: