Meet the Teachers Day

Adam got to meet Mrs. Morales and Mrs. Heckathorn and hang out in his classroom for a little bit today.  He did his whole shy act when we got to the doorway of his classroom.  He wanted us to pick him up and when we didn't, he hung onto and tried to hide behind Dave's leg.  The teachers had a little scavenger hunt to get the kids acquainted with the classroom.  Adam finished that pretty quickly and then headed over to the play kitchen to microwave some stuff.  Ha ha!  I think the most interesting part is that despite some of the girls playing in the kitchen and general area, none of the kids really interacted with each other.  Adam didn't do his usual, "Hi!  What's your name? How old are you? Oh, Hi ______!  My name is Adam. I am 3!  Wanna play?"  He just reached around the girls for whatever he wanted.  He actually made one girl cry because he wanted to play with this scale thing that was set up on the science table that she ans another girl were playing with..but then I saw her crying a lot through the half hour we were there...  I didn't see a lot of boys.

When we told Adam we needed to leave, he just ran out of the classroom, out the door, to the car.  He didn't even say goodbye to the teachers.  We asked him if he liked it and he said yes so hopefully Tuesday will be an easy drop-off.  He said that when he first met Mrs. Heckathorn, he thought she was a little creepy.  Ha ha!!  (She's not, by the way.) We said that she was very nice and he said " I KNOW that!"

We talked to Mrs. Morales about the age thing and she said that there are some younger 4's (like Adam) and some that will be turning 5 towards the end of the year.  That's just the age range they accept into the class or something like that but he'll be fine.  And for Dave - no, Adam cannot go to kindergarten next year!


On a completely, non-Adam related note...for those following my gluten free stuff - my doctor ran some gliadin antibody tests (IgG and IgA) when he was running my thyroid labs last week.  Gliadin is a protein found in gluten and the antibodies would come back positive when there is some sort of gluten sensitivity and/or celiac disease.  I thought he was wasting a test since I had been gluten free for 2-3 months but I read  that since it was not longer than 6 months, there would still probably be antibodies.  Anyway, a positive result for both would be higher than 11 and mine came back at <3 and 4 soo.....  I'm eating normal food again!  Hopefully I will gain some weight now that I enjoy what I'm eating! (You don't hear that everyday, do you?)

Parent Orientation

Dave and I went to the parent orientation at Central College preschool yesterday.  It was pretty, well, boring.  It was a group orientation for an hour where they went over the handbook and a couple handouts they like.  Then we went to our kids classrooms to meet the teachers.  Adam's teachers seem very nice.  One is bilingual in Spanish so she will teach them their basic numbers, colors, and random words in Spanish.  The interesting thing was that they had a sheet to sign when we got in that asked if our child was going to be going to kindergarten next year - lots of parents checked "yes" .  Then someone asked if we should put extra clothes in their bags just in case and they said at this age, rarely are there any accidents and there are extra clothes in the office if needed.  They said most of the kids are 4 years old with several turning 5 this year.  What??  Is Adam going to be the youngest in the class??  I will be asking tomorrow when we head back over for him to meet his teachers.  I don't mind because I think he'll keep up academically.  It's just that other kids can make such a big deal out of age.  We'll see...

1st Private Piano Lesson

Today was Adam's first private lesson.  He walked into the Conservatory and saw a couple people standing in the office and said, "TEACHER!!  Ummm, today I am going to have a lesson with just me and the teacher and not with all the other kids!"  Mr. Jones, the office manager, helped out during the Sampler class and scheduled our privates so he understood and asked Adam if he was excited.  Adam said yes and danced around the lobby.  A couple of minutes later, one of the teachers came out and said his name was Mr. Schmidt and that Mr. Naughton who Adam was supposed to have had to go to the other location for the day.  We have never met Mr. Naughton  but Adam knew he was supposed to be his teacher.  Adam got upset and hid behind a chair.  Mr. S. had to go get Ms. Popper who taught the Sampler class and the 2 of us talked Adam into looking at Mr. S's cool room.  Adam tried to sneak out once while Ms. Popper and Mr. Schmidt were trying to have some witty banter.  Then he had to go to the bathroom.  On the way back to the piano room, I told Adam to surprise Mr. S. with much he knew.  He ended up running back to the room and sitting down with Mr. S. and I went back to the lobby.  I tried to listen to Adam from the lobby but there was a mom with her 3 young kids making too much noise.  Half an hour later, he and Mr. S. came out smiling and Mr. S. said he did really well!
Hopefully he won't freak out next week with his "real" teacher.

Last day of camp

Here is a video montage of the last day of camp today.  Sorry it's a little long...but cute!

A little song for my birthday

What a sweet boy!!




**My head isn't cut off in the original but I'm OK with it being cut off here**

Wednesday Water Day

Wednesday at gymnastics camp was "water day".  The kids were told to bring their suits, towel, sunscreen, etc and they have this big blow-up SpongeBob water slide/pool thing the kids got to play in.  I noticed that most of the girls had their suits on when we got there so I asked Mrs. A. if Adam should put his on.  She said there would be time before going out to do it or he could put it on now if he wanted. Adam wanted!  Ha ha!  He started taking off his shirt and running to get his bag that had his suit in it.  I got him to the bathroom and changed then said goodbye.

When I returned for pick-up, Adam and another girl were still out playing in SpongeBob.  They had made a "secret" t-shirt (Adam was very good at not telling us what it was), played inside, then ended the day with the water. After much coaxing and the staff starting to deflate and empty SpongeBob, I finally got Adam out.  We went  inside to pick up his clothes and picture he colored and next thing I know, his bathing suit is down to his knees!! Aaaahhh!!   He wanted to put his dry clothes on but we were in front of all these bleachers and the place is always mobbed with gymnastic girls.  I got his suit pulled back up and ushered him to the bathroom and all was well!  Ha ha!

Gymnastics camp (and piano class, too)!

Today is Day #2 for gymnastics camp at Buckeye Gymnastics and Adam is LOVING it!!  He was ready to go when he woke up this morning.  He sang a little song on the drive there.  "Gymnastics! Bay-buh!!" (as in baby).  He tries to tell me everything they did as we walk out of the building when I pick him up.  One of the other teachers said he was hilarious today and she loved watching him.  There are only 5 kids - 4 girls and him.   I guess I should see about signing him up for classes this Fall.

Yesterday he had gymnastics camp AND piano lessons.  We got stuck in traffic on the way to piano and he was soo worried that he was going to be late and miss something. We got there at 6:02 - not too bad! I thought for sure he would fall asleep on the way home but no such luck.  He's sticking to his 9:30.  Ughh!

Last week at piano, the parents got to go to a meeting with the director of the Conservatory.  I already liked them but some of his points about how they teach sealed it for me.  I asked Adam if he wanted to continue in a Sampler class like he's doing (with about 7 other kids), a smaller class with maybe 2 other kids, or private lessons with just him and a teacher.  He said he wanted just him and the teacher because the other kids get too loud and he can't hear Ms. Popper.  Good choice!!  In order to take lessons, we needed a piano.  On a list of places to get pianos there was someone called Pianoman John.  Sounded interesting so  I checked out his site and was shocked at the prices.  Graves and Henderson were selling used for at least $1500-2000.  Pianoman John  - $295 - $900.  Soooo.....we got a nice used Baldwin Henderson piano today!!   He's going to let it get acclimated and come back next week to tune it.  While John was telling us the best way to clean it, Adam went and got some paper towel and started wiping it all off.   After John left and we had some dinner (and when Adam should have been going to bed) Adam was so excited to have a piano just like class that he got his folder of "music" and went through all his lessons from the past 5 weeks.  So cute!