It has been decided that it was time for Squirt to start going to school the first thing on a Monday morning right after we got off the plane from Europe just only a few days prior. Jet-lagged or not.

Unlike Spud, Squirt is slightly a little bit clingier than her sister has ever been, is always a little bit more cautious of new environment and would prefer that we stay close to him. Perhaps, because of that, we had thought that Squirt would likely be crying his eyes out when we leave him with a bunch of strangers in a strange place.

But he surprised us – there was no crying or whining of any sort whatsoever. In fact, Squirt merrily said goodbye to us even before we had the intention to leave and quickly joined the other kids whom he hasn’t met before in his life! He literally started bouncing up and down with smiles strewn all over the place, and not once did I detect a look of confusion on his face. He actually did not care at all that we were leaving. For a first day at school full of new, strange faces, Squirt was one hell of a happy kid. Not too bad at all!

Already on his first day, he came home with a note written on his book by his teacher stating that he got a bad cut on his finger. (I checked it when he was sleeping and thought that the wound looked pretty nasty as the skin on his thumb was completely stripped off. Yuck.)

As I found out the next day, the reason he managed to hurt himself  was because he got busy playing with the sliding door and then got  his fingers stuck somewhere in between the door. (of course!) The teacher did seem quite apologetic, but honestly, it was hardly a surprising fact to me. Considering his crazy obsession with  doors and being compelled to either open or close them every 2 seconds, I believe getting his fingers stuck is something that is just bound to happen one of these days! Hopefully, the little Squirt learnt his lesson of not playing with doors. Ever.

All in all, though – a great start to the first few days in school for Squirt!