A few days of firsts...

There have been 2 firsts for Caleb over the past few days.

1. Super Caleb and Treat'in Marghita Style! I have to be honest. Caleb was so cute in his thought up and made in 30 minutes costume that I could have cried that whole day. I love my son...
And, the best part was, he was so excited about his costume. He was telling me what his special super powers were and he had moves to go along with it. Absolutely hilarious and awesome!



2. His first day of Gradinita...Romanian kindergarten! I won't go into the details at the moment but I was forced to enroll him. He will go every Tuesday and Thursday (thankfully I had a choice about whether or not I wanted to send him full time which, I did not). This week though, it being his first week, I sent him Monday as well. When I picked him up on Monday his big story of the morning was that he wasn't the child "beat" by the teacher. A.K.A. One of the girls wasn't listening so the teacher rolled up a magazine and gave her a hard whack on the head. Unfortunately I kind of knew already that this is pretty normal here in the kindergartens. (One of the reasons why I didn't want to send him.) And then this morning Caleb tells me this : "Mom, it's okay if another kid hits me because the teacher will just come and hit them back." The teacher also uses words that I would never use as a parent, nor as a worker with the Casa Alba children. Although I have noticed over the years that harshness is much more tolerated. Before we left the apartment this morning I really had to explain to him that just because she tells the children to "shut up" during class doesn't make it a good choice. That under no circumstances is he allowed to start using that phrase. I cannot believe what my 4 1/2 year old is learning after just 1 day there. I have been praying so much that God would protect his little heart while he is there. And we have been praying yesterday and today for his teacher to have more patience and that the kids would know Jesus' love. I think it helps me as well to pray that and not stress out so much about him being there!

You may be wondering what the pictures just above are. The one is of Caleb standing outside the kindergarten doors, holding the box of chocolates for his teacher that we bought, on his first morning! The second is JUST ONE of the MANY bulletin boards lining the main hallway of the school. : )