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Chillaxin' with Dad.

We don't discriminate

We play with "girls' toys" here. I bought this Lego set because I was excited by the bakery (:

James agreed that we can share the set, but it is mine. I guess I stress that so he doesn't think I bought him a new set.

His review-

 

 

Work

So big news in my school district tonight.

I have a bit of drama/bullying going on at my own school. Hopefully it will be resolved tomorrow.

 

Nemo and Pez

Did I never share James' new pets? His new fish are named Nemo and Pez (Spanish for fish).

 

Each morning he gets up and feeds them solo, if he can get the fish food can open on his own. He also feeds them at night. He's taken good care of them so far!

Our Life

These pictures are from last weekend but they are still true today. James is a creative, demanding boy. He loves to create and play with us. On this weekend day Jim and James play the wii driving game. It was pretty darn funny! James is a terrible driver (:

 

And this is our living room. The Lego City has taken over!

 

 

Snow Day with Mom 3/29

We woke up to a significant amount of snow- not a ton but enough snow and ice for my school district to call a rare Snow Day. It was a good thing because I overslept. My iPad is never too far away so when I reached for it to email my school I was going to be late, I went on autopilot to Facebook where I saw post after post from my colleagues that it was a snow day!

What to do on a snow day but make the kitchen nice and cozy with the smell of peanut butter cookies? They were all done before 9:30am! And my strange little boy wouldn't try one bite! His loss...

James grew tired of Legos by 10am (imagine that!) so I convinced him to go upstairs with me to play. This rocket ship from Grandma Rose was great fun AND it goes with his daycare's monthly theme- outer space!

We also set up the train tracks. James had a great idea of creating a tunnel from his chairs.

AND THEN we went outside!! James raced me to put on his coat and boots first. He won (:

 

Sledding down our hill.

 

We wrestled and laughed in the snow.

Oh dear. No make-up on this Mom...

 

It was a fun day!

 

Another Pretty Cool Set

Our deprived child had to create his own set this week since we don't just buy new toys for the heck of it. (He's learning!)

He created this Krusty Krab "set", an idea from the SpongeBob tv show.

Enjoy!

 

 

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Cuddling with Dad (:

 

 

Kindergarten, here we come!

The kindergarten roundup happened on February 23. We turned in James' registration papers and started the process of registering him for Spanish immersion kindergarten!

There were four stations for families to visit- story time, art activity, registration bad bus ride, and finally a morning meeting.

I didn't capture a picture of the story time because it required heavy concentration for me- you see, it was all in Spanish. It was amazing how naturally the children fell into the routine of listening quietly, repeating the words at a prompt, and how it did seem they understood bits and pieces. The story was maybe a familiar one for everyone- Where the Wild Things Are. I understood quite a bit, but I wondered about Jim's comfort level. I guess for him he had a similar experience to the kids (:

James at the art activity. The directions were given in Spanish with a brief demonstration. Stringing froot loops on to yarn.

Registration and bus ride. The adults were to turn in papers or fill them out (we came with ours completed). The kids were asked to line up and go for a bus ride. I wasn't sure if James would go without us, and we made no move to budge from our seats, but he went willingly with the other kids and teacher. I quickly snapped a picture of his departure but didn't make a big deal of it until he came back. He LOVED the bus!

The last station was the morning meeting, a kindergarten start to a day full of songs, check ins, and calendar/weather chat. This teacher was my favorite, she seemed the most natural with children if this age and also her Spanish didn't seem forced. There was another teacher with good Spanish (a native speaker) but she was from Chile and I found her harder to understand.

Anyway, fun station. She was very animated and fun.

Here's one cute song she led the children through.

 

 

Snow Day!

A snow day for Mom means a snow day for James!

A snow day equals lots of Lego play!

A snow day equals baking cookies! More on that later (:

Eating the Rainbow

We must be doing something right. James ate 85% of this tomato. He asks constantly, "Is this healthy? Is it part of the rainbow?"

He just started chomping on it like an apple!

 

 

Chef James

Lasagna was such a big hit last weekend that we are making more! And James wanted to help. I am sad that he's abandoned his dream of becoming a (cookie) chef but he was a great help in the kitchen. Dad ain't bad either (:

 

 

Karate Kid

James had the same reservations about Karate as he did with Spanish.  He all of a sudden stopped wanting to go.  Well, WE didn't want to let Karate go so Dad (Jim) decided to pay a visit to the class to pump up the jam!

These videos are from a few weeks ago now but they're still pretty funny to watch.  James had Karate class yesterday and told us that he is just one "stripe" away from his Gold Belt!  (I guess they need a certain number of classes under their belt before they advance to the next.)

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He likes it! He likes it! Finally a meal with multiple ingredients that James likes! My lasagna. I won't hold my breath that he'll like ANY lasagna but this one is plain enough and slightly sweet. That equals James friendly. He willingly had yesterday's leftovers for dinner and then asked for more!  And those tomatoes aren't to the side because he didn't like them, but because he LOVED them.  He stole mine and started hoarding :)

You might think I'm silly for carrying on like this but it was nice not forcing something down your child's throat, especially when you're not feeling even 80%.

Swimming like a fish!

I have fallen out of blogging. I need to just sit down and sort through the pictures I want to share.

James' lessons continue to go really, really well. He practices holding his breath, putting his face in the water, and floating in the bathtub.

He really surprised his instructor by holding his face in the water for a rapid count of 13! He does it in the bath now and it scares me seeing him down for so long! He loves it though (:

So the other boys are younger and immature. It was really obvious tonight when the instructor struggled to control the younger boys. James just sat and watched patiently, waiting for his turn.

And you'll see in the first video that she sorta loses control of the two littler boys and then James goes under.  I stop recording, I was concerned and ready to jump in, but he popped up on his own and arranged himself on the little platform that's submerged under him.  

We moved to the other (deeper) side of the pool for jumping in. No fear!