Aidan's first book report

Today was Aidan's first book report presentation. His report was on the book Lions at Lunchtime which is part of the Magic Tree House series. Aidan was very happy with a few points:

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• Googly eyes on the lion
• Clouds hanging instead of being taped to the sky
• The tree house on top of the box

 

 

 

 

His presentation was great!

More first day pics

More pics from the first day of school - August 23 2010! Click the picture below for a link to the Picassa album.

First Day 2010

Aidans writing journal

As the school year wraps up, Aidan's journals from the year have come home. Most of these are from early in the year. Here are my favorites:

Translation:

"When I was young I went in a hole. My mimi planted a big tree in present day."

When we planted the weeping willow in our back yard (dad, jenny and I) we dug out the hole and stuck Aidan in it before we planted the tree. He was six or seven months old at the time. We've told him the story several times and I guess it has made an impression on him.

Translation: "You should see this show. It had robot dinosaurs. People in dinosaur costumes. And a dinosaurs with ropes for it to look like it's flying"

This was after the Walking with Dinosaurs show that Mom and I took the boys to. He summed it up pretty well :)

"One time I went on a roof. With socks. I was like Spiderman."

No idea when this was...I'm guessing at a grandparents house when I wasn't looking. :)

Brandon's Performance - Voices of Texas

V day

Aidan at his valentines day party

Aidan played HEART bingo at school today for his valentines day party.

Open House

Last night was open house at Rutledge. Brandon and Aidan met their new teachers. Brandons' teacher's name is Ms Greenlee and Aidan's is Ms Rahe (pronounced Ray).

Both were very excited to find that they had good friends in class with them. Brandon & Nathan are together again and Aidan has Mason & Samir from his Kinder class. The three boys were ridiculously excited to see each other and had to be tranquilized to get them to leave :)

Aidan asked me four times last night, "How many days till school starts?"

Aidan's book from Mother's Day Event at School

Aidan filled out a book at school about “my mom”; the highlights are:

My mom looks pretty when: she wears a dress [I never wear dresses, I own two…maybe]

For fun, my mom likes to: go to Sea World

My mom likes to shop at: H-E-B

If I had a million dollars, I would buy my mom: a dog

My mom is proud of me when I: listen

My mom cooks the best: cinnamon rolls [he spells Sinnamon Rools]

My mom’s favorite tv show is: the weather [this one cracks me up]

Kindergarten so far...

We are three days into the school year and Aidan got his first "yellow" at school.

His class operates on a behavior scale of green, yellow, red. They are moved to yellow after getting two warnings. He and another little boy were playing & giggling during rest time.

I ran into his teacher while helping stuff Wednesday folders during my lunch hour so I got the first hand account of it. Of course I'm upset that he wasn't listening, but I'm secretly glad that he has a friend at school!

The crew heads to school...

The boys started school this morning - Devlin starts 7th grade @ Henry Middle School, Brandon starts 3rd grade & Aidan starts Kindergarten at Rutledge.

The boys were all up early and ready to go on time this morning - i hope we can keep that going all year. I'd just be happy with all week, actually. Dad, Jenny, Mom, James & I all were all here for the big event.

We dropped Brandon and Aidan at Rutledge first. Brandon wanted to walk to his class by himself. James watched him walk all the way down until he was out of sight. The rest of us took Aidan to class and James met us there. Aidan went straight to his locker to put his things away. He found his seat (with Mimi's help) and sat down. He gave me a quick kiss and a hug and was ready to start.

I made it out the door before I started crying. I can't believe my little boy is starting school!

Devlin wanted to ride the bus. We got back to our street just in time for him to get out at the bus stop and wait for the Middle School bus. We parked and waited until they pulled away.

We are so happy to have the boys here for school. It's going to be a great year.

One more thing from Kinder Camp

I need to write this one down while I remember it!

This morning during Kinder camp, the teacher read the story The Kissing Hand. The story was about a raccoon who is going to school for the first time. During the story the mother kisses the palm of his hand and tells him:

Now, whenever you feel lonely and need a little loving from home, just press your hand to your cheek and think, "Mommy loves you. Mommy loves you." And that very kiss will jump to your face and fill you with toasty warm thoughts.

When they read this line, Aidan looked around the room until he found me and smiled & waved at me. I nearly cried ... again.

Kinder Camp

Today was Kindergarten camp for Aidan. He got to meet his teacher (Mrs Sandobal) and see his classroom. There is another Aidan in his class (Aidan T) so he will forever be known as "Aidan W". By the end of the hour in the class he was already starting to write his name as "Aidan W" :)

The kids did centers while parents filled out paperwork. The kids and parents got to do a craft based on the book The Kissing Hand. The parents painted their hands and made a hand print on the paper, then the kids did the same and put their hand print on top. Aidan refused to paint his hand. So, I painted my hand and Aidan will trace & color his on top of mine in class on Monday.

Several times this morning I fought back tears. When we came in they gave us cards with the teacher's name on it - when Aidan heard his teacher's name he made a funny face and said "That's a funny name." For whatever reason, this made me want to bawl. I can't believe he's got a kindergarten teacher!

For the last half hour the kids played on the playground and the parents were given some information by the principal. The school seems really nice and all the teachers seem very good.

Stay tuned for the total breakdown that is coming on Monday...

Wrapping up the weekend

Aidan asked us today when he will start Kindergarten. Looks like we need a new countdown for the first day of school.

The boys were all very cute with Clara today. Devlin kept dancing the tango with her around the living room - complete with "dips". She loved every minute of it.

The boys went to the lake today - everybody had fun but came home exhausted. My thumbs are sore from all the unpackaging & repeatedly transforming toys from robot to car to watch to phone and back again.

He's had a great birthday weekend and he has enjoyed every minute of it.