I got to pick up the kids from school yesterday. John and I had some interesting conversations in the car. As we drove down Swimming River Road towards Lincroft to pick up Gillian, John said “Did we just past Swimming River?” I said yes. He said “Did you see if there was dirt in the… Continue reading car conversations
I had the following conversation with Gillian today: Me: How was your day? Gillian: I push Julia. Me: Pushing is not nice. Why did you push your friend? Gillian: She had a baby. I want it. Me: That’s not nice. You need to share the toys. Gillian: I push Julia off the seesaw. Me: What?… Continue reading Pushing
I got to pick up the kids from school on Friday. I picked up Gillian first and we went together to pick up John. It was my first time picking him up from MFA, but Gillian has already picked him up three times. One of the teachers saw Gillian and said “Go get John.” John… Continue reading The Nurse
Every day during dinner, we ask John about his day. All week he has been giving his day a double thumbs up. Today, I asked John about his day. He smiled, gave me two thumbs up and said “Booyakasha!” He explained to me, “Booyakasha is better than good. A Booyakasha with two thumbs up is… Continue reading Better than good
Today was John’s first day of First Grade. John woke up early and we told him to get dressed. I had a collared shirt and khaki shorts picked out for John to wear for his first day. John got dressed and I went to help him find socks and he was wearing a completely different… Continue reading First day of First Grade
Today we got to take John to his new school (Mahala F. Atchinson Elementary) to meet his first grade teacher. When we arrived the parking lot was full of kids and parents. In the car, John said “I’m scared.” Daddy said “Me too.” We bravely walked in the main door and found John’s classroom on… Continue reading Meet and Greet
When I got home from work tonight, Gillian walked up to me and said “Hi Mom.” She had a sad face and kept looking down at her feet. She said “I got band-dids.” And there were two band aids on her knees. I asked her what happened. She explained “I was walking silly then I… Continue reading The Band Aid – take two
John has been reading street signs for me on our morning drive to school. He reads the speed limit signs or stop signs. This morning he saw a sign and said “That one says watch out for ones crossing the street.” I didn’t understand him. I responded by asking “Watch out for worms crossing the… Continue reading Street Signs
John is really rough on sneakers and Daddy noticed this weekend that one of the straps on John’s sneakers were broken. We were planning on getting him new sneaker for school, so we decided to get them sooner rather than later. We got him some new Nikes. Since John got new sneakers, Gillian had to… Continue reading New shoes
John and Gillian’s school had a visitor last week. The kids were visited by Insectropolis and they brought all kinds of insects for the kids to see. Gillian was not too excited about the bugs coming to school (even though it was only a few weeks ago when she told me that spiders were her… Continue reading The Spider
John and Gill went up a hill 