First Kindergarten Homework Assignment

We met Quinn's teacher this morning and picked up his first homework assignment of the year. The assignment was to draw a picture of himself on a bag and put two items in the bag that help describe him.

He choose his goggles and a truck that he hasn't played with in forever.


He choose the goggles because he learned how to swim underwater this summer and can jump in the deep-end and swim to the side by himself.


He choose the truck because, "Really it's like two things in one, so I'll get to bring three things, but it's really just two things, but if you count them there's three things. But really. Just two things. The goggles and the truck. Mom, do you think it's okay if I bring the truck that's two things in one?"

I do think it's okay and I'm wondering what his teacher will learn about his choices tomorrow as he describes them to the class...


*I feel the need to add that he almost put his goggles and a bottle of bug spray in his bag. Because he has a lot of mosquito bites. I kind of sort of wish he put the bug spray in there. THAT would have been funny.

Summer's Ending...

So I've traded in my pool bag for my work bag.

Of course - working only 9 hours a week - my pool bag is still going to see some action for the next few weeks...

How's your end-of-the-summer going?

Ready.

Tonight I asked Quinn if he was ready to do his therapy exercises. His response?

"Yup. I'm ready for just about anything."


***sorry if this is a repeat for my facebook friends - I tend to look back at my blog archive as a sort of scrapbook - then I can remember to add some of this stuff to our actual scrapbooks as I complete them. Anyway, this post is really just for me - but it's a good thing to share too.***

The Library

I took the boys to the library today. Which is really nothing out of the ordinary.

They each finished their summer reading logs - logging in over 15 hours of reading. I'm pretty sure we've read way more than that, but I always forget to give them the stickers to add to the charts and they usually forget to remind me.

Anyway, I took the boys to the library today. Which is really nothing out of the ordinary.

Except. I was looking for a few books for myself - not just browsing - I had a list (Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and something by Philipa McGregory).

Anyway, I was looking for a few books for myself and the boys were actually being pretty well behaved. In each aisle I spent time looking the boys would each find one of the little step stools provided and stand up on the top step and just sort of hang out. Perfect. They weren't bothering anybody, they weren't yelling at or pushing each other - they were just sort of hanging out.

Except my younger one - he doesn't just hang out. Quinn says to me, "hey, mom - watch this," so I look over at him to see him start to climb. "No way, put your foot down." I look past Quinn over at Liam. And Liam's step stool is empty - because he's up on the shelf.

I am not even kidding. He climbed up two shelves. From the step stool.

Thank goodness nobody else saw that - I wouldn't want to be banned from the library.

Oh right, and thank goodness the kid didn't get hurt.