What a busy day! Two Walmart visits, lots of work at the lake, and preschool parent orientation filled our to do list for the day. Dennis got lots of time visiting with all his grandparents today! And I sure appreciate Gran and Pop keeping an eye on him while I worked this morning and afternoon and Grandma and GrandBob for watching him while his dad and I went to the orientation.
He is wearing his new Safari Vest, scored for $5 on the Walmart clearance aisle, which makes me especially happy because it was labeled $10 and rang up $5 at the register! It came with a little field guide that listed some exploring rules and guidelines, and I did read these to him. The ones he read to me later in the car were some different but excellent rules. He said "number one: if your house is on fire, get out of your house and don't try to put the fire out because you could get hurt" and "number two: always wash your hands before you eat and after you go to the bathroom so you don't get germs" and "number three: look for cars when you are in a parking lot and on a road so you can make sure they don't run over you" and a couple of others that aren't coming to mind right now. I'm impressed that he's at least learned to recite these rules and hope that dependable obedience will follow.
He is going to have an incredible school year, and I can't wait to go on the field trips to the fire station and two plays and the zoo and Bud's Best Cookies and their own Halloween parade through downtown... And he'll have a Sharing Day every month (modern "show and tell" I presume) and a Cooking Day where they'll prepare their own meal. They asked us to dress our kids in stuff to run and play and get dirty in because they learn some really great things when not having to worry about staying clean. Apparently it's a very hands-on program, and at least half the learning is student-driven. The director described it to me as organized chaos. I can't wait to get started, for my work there and his schooling there! Dennis has his own orientation on Thursday morning, and school starts Tuesday!
Tonight, David read to him for nearly an hour before bed. I LOVE peeking in his room and seeing them both shirtless and wearing pajama bottoms, cuddled together in the reading chair or (as they were tonight) stretched out on the floor on their tummies reading together. As I was tucking him in tonight, we said some special prayers and I asked him if he'd had a good day. He nodded. I asked what he liked best about today and he said "eating boogers" and grinned a wicked little grin. That's our boy!
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