87/365 View

This is the view as I pull out of the school parking lot from morning drop off.

85/365 Busy Saturday

3/26/2011

School thing





Birthday party



stop at a new park

322/365 Elementary School Thanksgiving Feast

It was fun to go have lunch with each of the boys. The food was less than impressive. They were out of the turkey in gravy when it was lunchtime for #2. I don't feel like he missed much.

301/365 Bear Jamboree

260/365 School

They come in and do this every day, and I have to get them to pick it all up and put it where it goes.



Today they came home with flyers for the book fair that is going on next week. They are very excited about it and right away got busy with picking out what they want.

235/365 First Day of School

Today I am officially the mom of a 1st Grader and a Kindergartener.


Monday - August 23, 2010

148/365 School is wrapping up

138/365 Surprise week

Each week of Pre-K has a theme, and the theme for this week is "Surprise!" Only there isn't much in the way of surprise going on considering every day the surprise is candy. Today my little guy came home with this cute cup man he made (love the eyes that don't line up) with Skittles inside.

112/365 Field Trip, Speech, and Kindergarten Registration

The field trips this year at the pre-k have sucked. Granted L missed a few that wouldn't have been too bad, but this was the second trip to sing at a nursing home and I don't blame L for not liking it. I get the trips are to have the children become accustomed to riding buses and following directions outside of the classroom, and I get the budget has been cut, but the fun factor seems very low to me.

Each day leading up to the even L ask us not to make him go. He wasn't upset, but he kept coming up with fun things to do instead, like go to the zoo, or the beach. And the morning of he didn't ask not to go at all, so I knew he'd be okay.

Three classes attended, with only 8 kids in his class. 3 children weren't there because they were afraid, the rest were out sick. One little boy had spent the last visit there in the teachers arms and that is where he ended up again. Other kids sang their hearts out and danced and seemed to having fun, so it wasn't negative for everyone. Watching one little boy getting down to 'Squirrels in my Pants' was hilarious. He also did the animal sounds to 'Old Macdonald Had A Farm' at the top of his lungs and even some of the residents were laughing. They also seemed to enjoy the little girl who sang 'Tomorrow', and the little boy who did 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.'

After L was loaded back up on the bus I headed home, grabbed his before speech snack and V, and off we headed to the elementary. After he did his thing we got him signed up for 2010/2011 kindergarten. It seems unreal to do that with my baby. I know he's bigger than G, and has been in pre-k, and that we just did this last year with G, but it's different. When we left V said "You're going to be a crying mess the first day of school, aren't you?" I think that's a given.

106/365 Field Day ribbons

Gus had his first field day on the 15th, and was checked out a little too soon to get these so they came home with him today.



April 16, 2010 Friday

99/365 Pizza Friday

Every Friday at school is pizza day, which makes G a very happy boy. Today, at his invitation, we went and had lunch with him. They have the TVs on, something he says isn't the norm, so he was more interested in it than us, but it was still cool share part of his day that normally we don't get to. And this is his week as table wiper so he left us at the parent table to go do his thing as his class filed out.

His lunch.



Things that really stood out

The TVs. I believe him when he says they aren't normally on at lunch, but it blows my old lady mind to think about getting to watch TV while eating at school.

Very few kids chose the salad as a side. Mine went with the half an orange, but they could have chosen juice instead.

Those that did choose the salad had their dressing squirted on by the woman at the register. A couple of kids came back and said they didn't have enough dressing so she drowned their lettuce, making them happy. She gave one boy extra ranch in an empty part of the tray so he could dip his pizza in it.

One of the kindergarten girls had a Twilight lunch box.

"Chocolate Rush" and the graphics on G's milk carton. The white milk had exciting graphics, too, and the cartons each had the URL milkrocks dot com

All the trash generated was mind blowing. Everything was disposable.

28/365 When I was a young'un things were simpler

Gus constantly has things he has to make or do for school, and next year Lucian will join in the fun!

This isn't food, it's the stuff of school projects.

21/365 It's Lucian's Day

It started with a field trip where all the kids sang at a nursing home. Lucian was thrilled to ride the bus again,





and he did not like all those old people starring at him and after singing part of the first song he just stood there the rest of the performance. He wasn't as bad as the the little boy who spent most of the program in the teachers arms, but he definitely wasn't happy. I always looked forward to these with Gus and it always turned out about the same. My boys are not performers!

This evening out riding their bikes Lucian pushed his training wheels around to where they weren't touching the road anymore, then took off. He rides like he's been doing it for years. That is so him! It was that way with walking, and potty training, and well just about everything. I'm so proud of him.

13/365 Another Parenting First

Today, around 12:30 pm, I got my first "Gus is here in the clinic, you need to come get him" call from the school.