Liam's First Day of School

Liam had his first day of preschool full day 2.0.  He missed half of the school year (7 weeks because he broke his leg and could not walk on crutches, went back for 2 weeks and he missed another 12 weeks because of covid.).  After meeting with his teachers and the principal we collectively decided to hold Liam back a year and decided to repeat preschool.  I thought it would be easy to explain this to Liam, but it has defiiltey been hard to explain why he has to repeat preschool.  I told him Grayson did preschool twice, but he is still not understanding how it all works.   He wants to count down the days until he is in kindergarten to see his old friends (he doesn't want to make new friends because he really likes his old friends), but he doesn't realize that when he moves into kindergarten, his old friends will move to the next grade (1st grade) while he moves to kindergarten.  It's been a little hard to explain this to him, but we hope he will eventually figure it out and be happy with his new class.