The birthday boy

Ben had his "birthday walk" at school today.  In Montessori schools, they have the birthday child hold a globe and walk around  a representation of the sun one time for each year.  While doing that, the teacher talks about what the child was doing in that year (parents supply that info).  It's cute and the other kids looove to hoot about things a classmate did as a baby.  I was a little afraid Ben would see it as teasing, but he did fine.

Here he is after his birthday walk:

He's decided not to cut his hair anymore, hence the 'fro.

In all of these pics, watch the back ground kids.  Kindergarteners are just so boneless and goofy.  They cracked me up  At one point in Ben's timeline, I'd written that he jabbered all the time, but we couldn't understand him.  We thought he spoke Polish.   Keenen pipes up, "He could talk to Polar bears!"  Ben took off the flannel shirt he'd been wearing, prompting another kid to unzip his fleece, prompting Emma to unbutton her dress.  "NO!" screams Noah, "you can't take off your shirt!"  "I can too, I do it all the time!  I'm hot!"  "No!  Girls have breastes and we'll see them!!"

Here's Ben and his Posse. Only Loagan is missing from the shot:


Love the random stuff going on in that shot.  And Heidi, the one in pink, couldn't be any more Classic Kindergartener in that shot.

Ben showing Loagan his timeline:


Heidi's kind of oooozing to the ground.  His teacher, Miss Penelope wasn't in today, so just the aid, Miss Leslie was there.  How she gets through the day without pharmeceutical help is beyond me.