051914 Wrestling

Last parent/teacher conference of the year!

Friday was the last parent/teacher conference for kindergarten.  That's crazy!  Where did the year go?  Well...it was all good news!  He has gone up 6 reading levels since the beginning of the year, his hand writing is much stronger, he's not afraid to make mistakes writing anymore (at the beginning of the year he would constantly erase), he's expanding his social circle, better handling his emotions...just all good things.  The only thing they suggested was to have him count some change as he can't remember what dimes and nickles are worth. 

Beds

The other night, Adam came into my room at 1:30am.  It was stormy and he said he had a bad dream so I let him crawl into bed and go back to sleep.  Dave didn't get to bed until 4:30ish so he let Adam stay the 1.5 hours until we had to get up.  At dinner, Adam said that Dave should go sleep in the guest room so that he could sleep in the big bed with me.  Dave told him no - every time he sleeps in that bed, he hurts his back.  Adam said he (Dave) could sleep in his (Adam's) bed.  Again, Dave said no - that Adam can sleep in his own bed and Dave will sleep with me.  Adam said he doesn't like to sleep by himself and that we are grown-ups so we shouldn't need to sleep with each other.  Kids get scared and need to sleep with the grown-ups so he's going to sleep in our bed since it's big enough for 3!  Ha ha!!

Young Vikes Wrestling picture

Adam has 2 Mondays left of his wrestling class. The last class will be a tournament.  I can't wait to see him wrestle!  (They try to cover all the windows in the wrestling room - probably more so the kids don't get distracted by all of us parents trying to look at them.  Ha ha!) Adam seems to be enjoying it.  There was a week or 2 where he was saying it was boring but now that they know more than one move, it's getting better.   Last week they got their team t-shirts and the coach took a picture.  I have to share it. It is hilarious.  Only my kid!

 

Oh Dear!

Tonight we got a call from a parent of a 1st grader that rides the bus with Adam.  Apparently Adam punched him today!!  Dave took the call.  He said it was the mom and she was just making sure that her kid didn't do something to provoke Adam.  Adam said he was trying to give the kid a piece of paper that he (Adam) had written some words (words he knows we don't like) with a couple of doodles on it and the kid wouldn't take it.  Not sure why that warranted a punch. Adam has been warned! We think he may have gotten the idea from another bus "friend" who he says pinches him or punches him in the butt.  I figured it was just boys being boys but maybe I should call his parents? 

Ocean concert

The Kindergarten class put on a little concert at Assembly today for the rest of the Lower School.  Parents were invited and since Dave couldn't fall asleep this morning, he came too!

Here are a couple of clips I got.  At one point I thought I was recording and wasn't so hopefully the school videotaped it because it was really cute!

I think Adam was searching for us the whole time (as you can see from the beginning of the clip).  He bowed after almost every song but I'm not sure why he started to tickle himself...

After school actvity

For the past 6 weeks on Tuesdays, Adam has been going to "Science, Science, Science!"  after school. He loved it and was sad that Tuesday was the last day.  The newest after-school-activity brochure came out today and guess what Adam wants to do?  Swim? Math? Make cupcakes? Nope! Wrestle!!  Yes, they have a wrestling class for K-6!  Ha ha!  I can't wait to see what he thinks of it. They will even have a little tournament at the end.

As a side note and completely unrelated, Adam had his quarterly ultrasound on Friday.  This is the first time we have gotten any abnormal results but thankfully not liver or kidneys. He had a slightly enlarged spleen.  His doctor is not concerned since everything else was normal.  She said we will just recheck it at his next one in May.