Halloween

Lily's birthday

Lily's Kindergarten Program

If you can see her. This is both K-classes combined. They sang their favorite songs of the year. Next year--first grade!

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Last night at dinner Aaron asked Lily what her favorite thing in the world is.

With hardly a pause to think, she said, "video games."

Circus

We took the kids to the circus yesterday. I haven't been since I was a kid. It was actually quite enjoyable.

The kids liked it too. Well, the first half was very LOUD with lots of singing and pounding music and Lily didn't like it that much. But she loved the second half with the elephants and tigers and trapeze artists. Aaron's favorite was the motorcycle riders. They ended up with 7 guys on bikes riding around in a little sphere cage. I thought they were gonna die. One wrong move and they would've been in a steaming heap of bikes and people at the bottom of the sphere.

One has to wonder, however, how one gets into the business of being in a circus. Do they hold auditions? Do little kids think "I wanna be a clown/ringmaster/animal trainer in the circus one day? Perhaps the one who trains goats to ride ponies.


PS I can't tell you how much I am loving this fall (85 degree high) weather. Stay away cold!

Fun things kids say, part 4

I was listening to NPR on the radio as I drove Aaron home from tennis.

"Who's that talking, mom?"
"That's Barrack Obama....And that's John McCain."
"Oh, that's when they say (deepens voice) 'He wants to do that. That's bad. You should vote for me.'"

Fun things kids say, part 3

We had linguine noodles with dinner last night. Like most kids, Lily likes to suck the noodles in one at a time.

"Mmm!" she declared after she slurped in a noodle. "That's a sucky noodle!"

Pre-school

Lily loved the open house at her school. She had so much fun she cried when it was time to leave. She did okay the first day, but I kinda snuck out. The second day she knew I wasn't staying and cried, hugging my legs "I don't want you to leave!" despite the fact we had talked in the car about how fun school was and she was excited to go.

Finally I gave her one last hug and turned her over to the teachers. When I came back to pick her up she was fine and happy. The teacher told me it had taken about 20 minutes of crying/hugging until she warmed up. Then she had a great time. Hopefully the water-works will stop at drop off. It is just so different from Aaron. He never cried once.

Lily's Birthday Part 2

Happy Birthday Lily!

Lily turned 3 yesterday! She got a lot of fun stuff--games, clothes, RC puppy, books, and a kid-proof fisher price digital camera. Here are some pictures she took. I'll post some I took as soon as I locate my camera. . . These were on the low resolution. I switched it to high after these, so hopefully next time I post some she took they will look slightly better.

Aaron got glasses!

Unsurprisingly (bad genes), when I took Aaron to the eye doctor last week, he had to get glasses. The doctor said he was surprised that Aaron hadn't been complaining about his eyes. I had noticed him squinting a little and he liked to sit close to the TV when he watched. Here's a picture. It's not the best, but he only let me take one.

It's been fun today watching him be amazed at things he can see clearly now. He doesn't seem embarrassed by them, which is good. When I got mine (2nd grade) I was reluctant to wear them, but my teacher talked to me and helped me feel better about it. (Though if you look back at the pictures, no WONDER I was embarrassed!)

When Lily saw me taking a picture of Aaron, she wanted me to take one of her, too.