C is for Cap

Tomorrow is Cap Day in PreK, and Jake is ready. We have a full weekend ahead of us. Cody will be busy with the Member-Guest weekend at the golf course beginning tomorrow night. I have to take a test all day on Saturday as I am getting close to the end of my Masters courses. The kids are spending the night tomorrow with friends since I have to be in Cypress Saturday by 8:30. Maybe we can all rest on Sunday.

Should I Be Worried?

At the supper table tonight, I was asking the kids about their day at school. We started talking about homework. You might not realize that PreK students do have homework. This week they are working on the letter C, and Jake has to cut out a picture of something that starts with a C and glue it on his paper. Josie, Cody and I were naming possibilities...cat, car, couch, costume. Jake piped up and said, "How about s..s..s..pumpkin?" Maybe he was in the bathroom when they talked about C???

Goal Accomplished

Josie has been working on her back walkover in tumbling, and she has it! Next up...front walkover and back handspring!

Still a Little Summer Left

It's still warm enough for swimsuits and sprinkler runs here in our neck of the woods. We've had rainy, cloudy weather the last few days, but the sun has managed to peek through today.

More School Stories

Josie had a paper called "If You Were..." in her folder today. It was one of those getting-to-know-you, beginning-of-school, kind of assignments. Here are a few of her answers (exactly as she had written them):

If you were an animal, what would you be?

a cheeta

If you were a musical instrument, which would you be?

a drum (yeah, I can definitely see this one)

If you were a flower, which kind would you be?

putoonyu

And here's my personal favorite...

If you were a psychiatrist, who would be your first patient?

my mom

School Stories

I was talking to Jake about preK this afternoon on the way home. I wanted to make sure he was being polite and respectful and saying "yes, ma'am" and "no, ma'am." When I asked him about it, he said "Yes, in Ms. Jones's class." He went on to say they have sticker chart and earn stickers for saying "yes, ma'am." Apparently he already has one whole row filled up.

Then I asked him about his afternoon teacher's class. "Do you say 'yes, ma'am' in Ms. Cooper's class too?"

He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "Well she doesn't have a sticker chart."

Our Supper Conversation

Jake: "Mom, I know where eggs come from."

Me: "Really, where?"

Jake: "Chickens."

Me: "Do you know what comes from pigs?"

Jake: "Mud."