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Today Henry had his pre-school orientation. He wasn't thrilled after I got him strapped in the car and told him where we were going, but then on the drive he said that school is where all the numbers and letters are and he seemed to be vaguely interested in at least checking it out after that. It's a nature-oriented school so he spent most of his time outside, filling up a sandbox one bucket at a time, helping to clean carrots and apples that eventually got cut up for snacks. He also got to sand and oil wooden blocks that will be used inside the classroom. Basically everything he did was the coolest thing ever. One of the teachers took us inside with another little girl about Henry's age so he could get used to the classroom. He was very interested in two tasks. One of them was using little tongs to pick up little balls which he then placed in little holes. Doesn't sound like much, but he was seriously into it. The other was putting sesame seeds into a little pitcher and then pouring them into another little pitcher, and back and forth, etc, etc, a task he did just long enough for him to never want to stop doing it ever.

After orientation was over I told him I was taking him out to lunch to his favorite restaurant and he said "Okay, go have lunch, then go back to school!" His first day is Monday. Hopefully he'll remember the warm gooey feeling he had about it when he left today.