John and Gillian go to daycare during the week.  Daddy and I have been really consistent with saying that they are going to school.  We want the kids to get used to going to school and to enjoy it at the same time.  When John wakes up in the morning, he always asks “Mommy, is today a school day or a stay at home day?”  Either way he gets up excited for the day.  He truly loves going to school. 

This morning he woke up and found Daddy playing video games in the basement.  And that’s where I found them this morning.  I woke up Gillian and got everyone upstairs for breakfast.  During breakfast John says, “I know!  Let’s play school.”  We played school last weekend too.  Basically it is just an opportunity for John to boss Gillian and I around.  Plus he always has art and I get to color too.  So of course we played school.  I love to stretch the kids imagination any time possible.

We go into the living room and the art supplies are all over the coffee table.  He is sitting on the love seat and Gillian is standing on the window seat behind him.  I asked him why Gillian was in the window and he says “Cause that’s where I have the little kids stay.”  I got Gillian out of the window seat and we all sat in circle time on the rug.  He starts with “Today we are going to talk about pom-poms.  Pom-poms are really soft.  Feel them.”  And he proceeds to have Gillian and I touch the pom-pom.  He then says “They are soft not sticky like stickers.”  And that concluded the lesson on pom-poms.  He then asked us what we had for show and tell.  I was totally unprepared for show and tell.  Gillian had a baby (no surprise there).  Luckily for me, John supplied me with a blanket that I could use for show and tell.  After show and tell it was art time.  Yay!  I love art time.  We got to work on a new picture. Gillian would steal a couple of markers and just walk around the room.  Mommy is very lucky that Gillian has not figured out how to get the top off of a marker yet.  We got to color for a little bit, while the teacher got to put stickers in his sticker book.  After coloring, John decided it was time for free play and we got to go downstairs to play.  Before going down stairs, both Gillian and I got stickers because we were really good in school today.

Gillian and her sticker

the proud teacher holding up our artwork