We had a welcome back party at school tonight. DS5 saw his teacher and went and gave her a big hug! Yay, he really is happy with school so far. Later, she found me alone and told me that he's a perfectionist and is doing things "he shouldn't be doing yet." Plus, she said he's really empathetic and he's not a show-off about what he knows, which she really likes. And she told DH separately that he drew an amazingly detailed fish with lots of colors, etc. I told her that I know he's doing more at this stage than his brother did and am really curious to see where she assesses him at. She thought that totally reasonable. First round of assessments will be done in August.

Plus, ran into another parent who's son had her as a teacher last year who told me lots of great things about her ... and this woman's son is also a couple of years ahead in reading.

It's really looking good!