1st Academy birthday party

Adam went to his friend Will's birthday party today.  10am-2pm!  Captain pirate Will had a balloon guy and a face painter, a huge playroom, and (once the rain stopped) a big driveway and nice playground in the back to play on.  Adam REALLY wanted to give Will something (it was a "no gifts please" party) so we brought him a card and Dave drew in and signed a SpongeBob book.  At cake time, Adam really wanted to give Will his card.  I tried to explain that Will would look at the stuff later but Adam found where Will's mom put it and ran to give it to him.  Will made Adam open the envelope for him and then briefly glanced at the card and handed it back - he was busy playing. Adam was a little disappointed but I explained again that this was party time and he seemed OK with it.  A little earlier Will's dad came up to me and said Will had told them that Will had said some not-so-nice-things to Adam the day before.  (Adam had told me that Will said he wasn't invited to the party. When Adam said he got an invitation, Will said it was from a different kid named Will.  I'm assuming this is what his Dad was referring to.)  I told him Adam talks about Will all the time but I lied and said Adam didn't say anything bad happened.  Well, he apologized and said they had a talk with Will about being a good friend, etc, etc and we agreed it was just Kindergartners being Kindergartners.  Later - we were leaving and I told Adam to say goodbye and thank you to Will's mom.  She said you're welcome and then Adam started spewing everything to her - "Will likes to push me and say mean things to me.  I think Will's a bully! ..."   Good for him for having the courage to tell Will's mom when I tried to cover for him with his dad!   She told him she would talk to Will and if he is ever mean again, to tell him his mom said to knock it off.   :)

A little funny

Adam had a cookout with his senior buddies today.  He said he remembered that one was named Zack but couldn't remember the other one.  I said I know it starts with an A...give me a minute.  Then he said - Anerd!!  His name is Anerd!  Ha ha haa!  No, it's Anupe...but close.

A funny from yesterday

Yesterday was swim class day for Adam.  He was very excited because they actually got to go in the water!  I guess they practiced getting in and out of the water and had a chance to jump in the deep end if they wanted (which he didn't). The funny part was, he said "Before all that, we had to go to the locker room to change into our swim suits.  It was SO embarrassing!  Everyone's weinerschnitzels were hanging out!!".  Ha ha haa!!  Get used to it buddy.  You have many more years of awkward locker room time.  :)

I forgot to post about the parent/teacher conference last week.  It went well.  The teachers had already noticed Adam get frustrated a couple of times and were able to step in before a meltdown.  They also noticed issues with his speech and then saw it on the form I had filled out so I should be hearing from the speech teacher soon.  (Adam may have been given something to bring home but he has left his folder in his cubby the past 2 days).  They noticed that he likes music.  Pretty good for only having him in class over a week!  They are able to pay better attention to the kids since there are only 13 in the class.  Mrs. Terwin said Adam is a great eater at lunch.  She said he has to take one of everything (his decision) before he even starts to eat.  I thought that was pretty funny since he'll just look at something I make and says no before even trying it.  That was about it for the conference. {Side note - Today's lunch was chicken fajitas.  Adam said he put everything but chicken on his tortilla today, including the green beans!  Apparently there was tomato in it because there was a big red stain on his pants that he said was from tomato falling out at lunch.  Good for him for trying!  At first I thought it was blood because he said he ran into the fence at bonus recess and got a bloody nose.  Glad it wasn't!} 

I posted on FB yesterday about his awesome bus driver!  Today she got him home at 3:45 (!) AND instead of turning on our street and having him cross in front of the bus like usual, she turned on the next street over so she could pull up in front of our house with the door on our side of the street so he didn't have to worry about crossing!  Love her!

Keb' Mo' - Life is beautiful

Putting this here so I can find it again easily for Adam.  This was the song he was singing at the bus stop last week.

The memory on this kid!

Adam came home from school today and proceeded to tell me about his day again.  I love that I don't have to try to coax it out of him!  He did not do this last year.   He remembers every little detail.  I got to hear about each little segment of the "Be Safe Around Water" safety film he had to watch for swimming class.  He forgot one part but made sure to tell me about it later when he remembered.   It was pretty funny but at least I know he was paying attention. 

Todays book was "The Frog Principal" but he didn't tell me much about it other than it reminded him of the "Princess and the Frog" we watched this weekend. I asked if someone had to kiss the principal and he was all," NO!  Why?" so I guess the only similarity was a frog and a wizard.  They got to go to the library today and he checked-out a book called "Duck Soup".

 I think his favorite thing today was drama class!  (Imagine that! Ha ha!). 

Adam said the kids got asked today what their hopes and dreams are for the school year and he said something like "to read as many books as I can".  I was shocked to hear him say that because he isn't very fond of trying to read a book by himself so I'm not sure if that means he wants to learn to read, just "read"/look at a bunch of books, or have people read a bunch of books to him.  Either way it's kind of funny because one of the questions for our "get to know you" parent/teacher conference form was what are your hopes and dreams for your child this year and I put down "to learn to love to read."  Yeah! 

Can't wait to hear what "E" day brings tomorrow! 

Loving school!

Adam is loving school!  Yesterday he was all proud showing me that he knew how to cross the street in front of the bus when he got home.  Then he spent some time telling me about his day but he wouldn't tell Dave anything.  He made him go back to the basement.  Ha ha!  He read the book "Personal Penguin" that had a song sung by Davy Jones that he really liked so we had to look it up on YouTube.  (Then it was stuck in my head for the rest of the night and when I woke up.)  He had PE.  When I said, "Oh, you had gym class?" He was all,"How did you know PE was gym?"  Ha!  Everyday he comes home with some food on his shirt so yesterday I asked what he ate that was reddish.  Watermelon!  And peas!  And he said he didn't even have to drink with the peas (normally he tries to drink a ton of water with something he doesn't like) because he likes peas now! And some pizza.   I am loving whoever is getting him to eat in the cafeteria - adult, peer pressure, whatever - I'll take it. 

This morning I thought he would sleep in so I did.  The dogs started whining around 9 so I got up and Adam was on the couch playing on the iPad.  I asked if he had just gotten up and he said he got up at 6-something and it was still dark out just like when he gets up for school.  Oops.  I told him to wake me up when he gets up so he's not just watching You Tube videos all morning.

We had a play date at 10:30 that our "host family" set up.  It was some of the boys from last years pre-k class so they could all meet each other if they hadn't already.  As we were driving out of the neighborhood, Adam said it felt weird to be in a car.  He was used to sitting where ever he wanted to and sitting on his knees on the bus.  Then when we pulled into the parking lot of Academy Park he started to get whiny.  He told me he didn't want me to be there.  He was used to me not being around anymore.  I explained that it was also kind of a play date for me to meet the other moms and that I wasn't going to be following him around or anything.  That seemed to calm him down.  He had a lot of fun hanging with the guys. He did not want to leave even after they all left.  He said he didn't get a chance to play on everything (because they were running around, climbing on the slide, and doing the zip-line thing) so we had to do that and then we could leave. 

He turned into a major cranky pants after lunch.  Dave and I wanted to get out of the house but the little tyrant wanted to watch his Mario Bros YouTube videos or play Mario Bros.  When we said no, he locked himself in his room and said he wished he had school everyday!  Yay??

Day 2 - Done!

Adam seemed to have had another good day at school.  Not a lot of details from him today other than having 2 meltdowns (one for someone cutting in line and another for not getting the spot he wanted for rest time (and apparently the floor is more comfortable than the provided mat).  I know he had Spanish class and he read another book ("What would you do if you were a penguin?).  More freeze-tag at recess.  More noodles for lunch but he ate green beans (!!) and honeydew melon (!!).  He got a brownie with m&ms on it at some point.  He said he played mostly with a boy named Will. 

Another boy showed up at the bus top this morning - older kid.  I looked up all the kids in our zip code and found there is a 10th grader just up the street from us.  Must have been him.  LOL!

Adam said he is the first one on the bus and the last one off.  Today he was dropped off at 4:00 (that's about a half an hour early)!  Debbie honked the horn to let us know she was here and wouldn't let Adam off the bus until she saw one of us.  Adam was yelling out the window when I got out.  It was kind of funny!

Ooh - this just in - they made self portraits today!  Can't wait to see it.  I forgot to write about the puzzle he made yesterday that had his hand print on it.

OK - he is off to bed.  YAY!  He was a major crank this evening!