A funny story

Adam's class has been doing a unit on Community.  They are learning about different cultures, what other people do when they lose a tooth, how to not call unfamiliar foods "disgusting" (call them "different" instead), etc.  Adam brought home a paper last week where he wrote, "I would like to try a hot dog made out of pig snouts and hoofs."  Dave and I said, "You probably already have!"  He got SO upset!  He said it had to be something he never tried before and he didn't know!  We told him he might not have - we usually buy turkey or all beef - but he's had hot dogs other places...  He also got very upset with us when we told him he didn't live in Columbus...because his teacher told him they ALL lived in Columbus (even though he knows his address says Westerville).  His teacher was trying to do a very general lesson on how they live in the state of Ohio and in the city of Columbus (except for one kid who lives in Lancaster).  If Mrs. Klug says something, it has to be true!!  She had a good laugh about it at our conference.  She said he hangs on her every word. :)

Adam's first musical

The 1st graders are going to be performing a mini-musical "The Little Red Hen" on Tuesday, October 28th (8:15am  in the theater).  Adam's class is the Pig Chorus (there is a cat chorus, a cow chorus, fox chorus, and chick chorus).  Adam gets to be "Bob the Pig"!!  I think he gets to come out and snort or something.  Ha ha!  His first taste of the spotlight! 

Basketball

Adam has signed up to play on the junior basketball team!  I knew if there was at least one friend signed up,  he'd want to try it!  Practice and games start at the end of the month on Sunday afternoons.  Ought to be interesting.  :)

School love

When Adam got home from school today he said, "School is the best thing in my life!" :)

Ultrasound

Adam had his ultrasound last Friday.  Got the results back today:  no node was noted on the liver (say that 10 times fast).  That went away thank goodness!  Spleen - well, it's still enlarged.  It measured 9.9 cm; a tiny bit up from last time of 9.7 cm.  Doc just said repeat at the usual 3 months.

When our ultrasound tech Kelly was about to image Adam's spleen, I told her how it's been enlarged and how our doc wasn't concerned but I was annoyed because I wanted to know why.  She showed me his spleen in relation to his kidney. She said that they don't usually get worried until the spleen gets soo large it covers the kidney.  His does not even reach his kidney.  So I guess that's good!  She also told me that the internal organs tend to grow before a growth spurt. Well, he hasn't really grown any but maybe his body is gearing up for one.  Let's hope! 

Adam is still loving school! 

Minecraft YouTube-r

Adam loves these British guys called Stampylongnose and Ballistic Squid that have YouTube channels in which they commentate as they play Minecraft and other games.  I don't know what the fascination is in watching other people play (and the one guy has a really annoying laugh) but Adam will sit and watch these videos for hours.  This morning Adam got up and got on the computer. He was talking away playing Minecraft and I thought he was just imitating these guys.  A little while later he was all "Oh, Man!!  It didn't work!".  I found out that he had been recording himself trying to make a video to upload to YouTube but he used PhotoBooth which only records you - not your computer screen.   I had to do a little research and learned that QuickTime will record your screen and audio.  Sooo..Adam now has a video of himself narrating his playing of Minecraft...and a YouTube channel under his Minecraft name (stampy squid man). He wants to post more Minecraft videos (which are incredibly boring but his little voice is soo cute!).  I think that he thinks that if he gets a ton of subscribers like Stampy and Squid, he will get paid like they do.  :)

1st Day of First Grade!!

Adam had a great first day back to school!  After a bit of a rough wake-up (I apparently woke him up in the middle of a dream), he had a breakfast of pancakes and bacon and still had a little time to chill out watching his "Stampy" Minecraft  videos. As I had written on Facebook, he wanted Dave and I to be at the bus stop AND at his school when he got off the bus like last year.  We thought the bus would take forever like last year so we waited about a half hour after it left and ended up missing it. When he got home, I asked if he cared that we weren't there when his bus got to school.  Not really.  He said there were only 4 people on the bus in the morning!  No wonder it got there soo quickly!  He didn't really care when we went to his classroom either.  I felt bad for missing him.  He was just going about his business and being "Mr.Quiet" (because that's who he turns into at school).  He and his friend Jaxon get to so sit next to each other so a snapped a quick picture of them and we headed out.

Adam got home and told me all about his day.  They had a little scavenger hunt to find things in the classroom (name tags to place how you are going home, names to color and cut out, supplies that aren't in his desk cubby, etc). He actually went into detail about where each thing was  - it was pretty cute.  Then there was the big morning assembly where the Seniors get paired up with the Kindergarten buddies.  (He said Emma got a buddy and his friend's little brother got a buddy).  Uncle Stefan got an award/certificate for being a teacher for soo many years.

They had lunch. It was grilled cheese but he said you have to eat a vegetable, a fruit, and a protein before you can get something else?  He got half a blueberry bagel. Thankfully they took away "Fruit Rush" drink (aka colored sugar water) and he had chocolate milk.  (Fruit Rush is just for summer camps he said).

They had a recess or 2.  Played a new game of tag called "doctors".  They went to the library where he got 2 books on dinosaurs that he read on the bus ride home.  They had computer lab with a new teacher. 

I think that's all!