Thanksgiving Feast

Today was Adam's class Thanksgiving Feast.  They made T-shirts, necklaces, and head bands that they wore and everyone had to bring one item to eat.  Their "feast" consisted of a slice of (deli) turkey, mini muffins, grapes, snack mix, a hershey kiss and pumpkin pie.  A lot of food for preschoolers!  Adam ate the hershey kiss, mini muffins, and grapes.   Dave ate the pumpkin pie and the turkey was brought home for Mona.

 

Here's his class. 

Before the feast, the kids sang a couple of songs.  Adam...well, let's say he's not very quiet or shy.  As you can see in the video, he was the first to start singing.  (He is the 4th from the left). Then, on the second song, he got very upset because he thought they were going to sing some Marching Band song that they had sang in music class.  You can see him making some mad faces and near the end singing "Blah, blah, blah!"  I accidently cut it off but he actually started crying at the end.  I was crying I was laughing so much. 

Adam's teacher, Mrs. H. said Adam keeps them laughing.  She said that in chapel today, the minister was asking questions and was giving out candy corn for correct answers.  Adam answered something (I think he said God made us), got his candy, then whispered to his friend next to him, "God doesn't have any bones".  She thought that was soo funny.  I'm glad they are enjoying him and don't find him too distracting!

Mr. Kirby Dog

January 7, 2001 - November 15, 2011.  Not a bad life at all!

 

April 2001

 

 

 

 

                                               

Crazy Day!

Since Adam turned 4, I was able to move him up and into a new gymnastics class.  There were supposedly 5 openings in it so I assumed it would just be Adam and 1 other kid (which Miss Dawn had told us a couple of weeks ago).  Well, the class had been combined with another class (due to only one girl in the class) so when it started, there was one teacher, 6 girls, Adam, and 1 other boy.  Too many kids! During warm-up, Adam could not pay attention and was rolling all over the floor and just being goofy and not listening very well..  Miss D. showed up to help Miss A. and took 5 girls and left Adam, Zack, and Mia with Miss A.  Whew!! They went over to work on some of the equipment which went fairly well but it's so hard for the kids to remember what they are supposed to do on each thing.  Plus, this teacher has a hard time making sure she pays equal attention to all the kids so Adam kept skipping one of the things, nearly broke his neck trying to do a backwards roll the wrong way, and putting his arms (instead of just holding on with his hands) inside the rings and swinging.  Finally,  she told the kids to freeze and line up behind her.  Adam paused on the bar he was going to do then I saw him hold on to it and then his face/nose just bounce off of it.  I immediately went "Ooh!' and started coming down the bleachers before he even started to cry... and then it hit him.  Miss A.  handed him over to me and then his nose started bleeding!  Yikes! Through his tears he said he wanted to go home and Miss A. said to get an ice pack on the way out.  He calmed down by the time we got the ice pack and said he wanted to watch the rest of the class.  He was climbing all over the bleachers and back to being his crazy self. 

Later...Adam had piano lessons.  This was a horrible week trying to get him to practice so I warned Mr. Schmidt.  I even tried bribing Adam with a chocolate sucker if he was good.  It ended up being a bad lesson as well.  Adam kept running out and banging on the lobby door screaming for me.  Thankfully Mr. Schmidt has a lot of patience and somehow distracted him enough to get him back in the piano room.  When the lesson was over and we were walking to the car, Adam asked where his sucker was. Ha!

I got a break when I took Kirby to the vet for a recheck by myself.  The vet thinks Kirby looks even more jaundiced.  He gained 2 lbs in 2 weeks but not because he actually ate  (I had to force feed him most of the time) but because his abdomen is beginning to fill with fluid due to the liver disease.  We decided to try an appetite stimulant (Remeron) and another liver nutritional supplement on top of the other 2  supplements and every other day injections of some Chinese herbals.  Hopefully they will help stimulate what, if any, liver he has left.  He is off antibiotics to see how he does. We know that he probably doesn't have much time but it is not time for the big E-word just yet. He is not in pain, his eyes are bright, and he still perks up when Dave comes down in the morning or when asked if he wants to go for a walk (despite not being able to walk very well).  If his liver improves, we will be buying a harness to be able to help him stand up and get up/down the deck stairs.  For now...we wait and hope.

Oedipal complex?

Today, we were sitting in the car, eating some lunch and Adam said to Dave, "I want you to go to sleep and never wake up so I can live with just Mommy because I love Mommy." 
Um....what? 
"I want you to go to sleep, not wake up, and live under the stones - you know, the tombstones - because I want it to just be Mommy and me." 
Soo, you want me to die?  You know if I die, you'll never see me again.
"I love you!"
You love me but you want me to die?
"I was just kidding!  I was just being silly!"
Nice.....

4 year check-up

Adam is in the 80th percentile for height (42 inches) and weight (40 lbs).  We had the option of 4 shots today, 4 shots next year, or 2 and 2...we did the 2 today and a flumist.  Despite trying to explain to him that this was the better way to go, he still was rather unhappy.  He threw the Spiderman sticker he was given at the nurse when she was finished.  That'll teach her!  Ha ha!  Next ultrasound is scheduled for the end of the month...so nice to not have to do the blood draws anymore!

7 weeks of piano!

Adam just started his 8th week of piano lessons and he has finished his first 2 piano books! I think he was getting bored last week so he tried to play his lessons with both hands.  I told Mr. S. that we have a boy who wants to play with both hands and he said they may start that next week!  Crazy! I was looking through his new book and he will be learning dotted half notes, 8th notes, and the names of the keys by the time he finishes it...might take longer than 7 weeks but he's smart, so who knows?

Field Trip to the pumpkin patch

Adam's class took their first field trip today to Hidden Creek Farm.  Adam was soo excited! He was a little confused as to why we weren't driving to his school first. We had to try and explain that the parents drove their own kids and we would meet them and his teachers at the farm..  Later in the year they will go on a trip where they all get to ride the bus.

They had a couple of animals, a little straw maze, a big pumpkin slide, a dirt hill, and a little corn room with a smaller slide for the kids to play on while we waited for the hay ride.  We had quite a few people on the trip so we had to cram onto the hay ride but Adam sat on Dave's lap and thought it was fun.  When we asked him what his favorite part was, first he said hayride and then he listed everything else he did so..he liked everything!

Pumpkin Patch 10/12/11