The Youngest Bain EVER!

Oliver gets to school ~7:30 most days, but most of the teachers don’t arrive until 8. There’s one big room that all the early arrivals play in together until 8 (regardless of age), and as a result Oliver’s made a bunch of older friends.

A funny side-effect of this is that they keep in touch throughout the day. Oliver likes to be seated by a floor-length window while his buddies play in the yard (his teacher says he’ll sit quietly for 30 minutes while they’re out there), and they come by to visit him when they get a chance. It’s a running gag at school about how all the “big kids” (and the faculty) know him.

We feel guilty sometimes about how much time the O-Zone spends at school, but it’s nice to know that he’s developing impressive social skills (he, apparently, already surpasses his old man in that regard) and making friends of all ages.