One week down...

Lucas's first week of school is almost in the books, and thus far, it's gone well. After his first day, we asked him how it went, and his one word reply was "awesome." He likes his new teacher, and he also has a different French teacher, which is good since he didn't have the greatest relationship with the one last year. Completely understandable since the French ARE pretty insufferable.

Also, he won the lottery when it came to his classmates. The night before school started, I asked him if he could have one kid in class with him, who would it be? His answer was Hayden, his best friend from first grade. Sure enough, Hayden's in his class this year along with Liam, a friend of his who lives just around the corner. Probably just as important is the fact that there are no kids in his class who he didn't get along with in past years. So on paper, it looks like it'll be a good year.

I'm going to try and keep the rest of this post short with just a couple of random pictures from earlier in the year. You can definitely tell this first one came from a while ago, given the length of Lucas's hair. It hasn't looked like that since January. This was taken at a 67s game, the minor league hockey team here in Ottawa. They were playing in the Senators' arena for the last year or two while their arena downtown was refurbished so we went to several games. However, now that their arena is finished, we probably won't see them much. It's a lot easier going to a game that is 10 minutes away versus a half hour drive followed by godawful parking.

For those of you that haven't been around kids lately, here are a couple of pictures to let you know what you aren't missing.

And a couple more pictures for good measure.

In case I don't post again before the weekend, Saturday morning are Lucas's sort-outs for Novice hockey. For those of you not familiar with the hockey system here (like me this time last year), it's a multi-day affair where they gauge the skill levels of all the kids and assign them to teams with kids that have similar skill levels.

I suppose it can be a stressful situation if you're the kind of parent who thinks your kid is going to be in the NHL (haha, he's not, you moron). However, we're just there to have fun so wherever he ends up, we're cool with it. Having said that, based on his past play last season and his recent hockey camp, I would expect him to end up somewhere in the middle. Whatever the case, we'll know after next weekend. Yes, it takes 2 weekends. Hockey is really quite full of itself up here in Canada. :)