The intrepid Adelaide English is not afraid to climb any mountain or go headfirst where her curiosity leads here. Here, in her natural habitat, we caught her trying to figure her way out of this curious situation...
heehee yeah, we helped her...after we got some pictures...
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
the graduate
Ms. Dawn (right) and Ms. Jenni (left) will have my eternal love and devotion for the love, patience and learning they have given Will these past few months. They are the special kind of teachers, the ones you can look back on and always know that they changed you for the better. Thanks to them both.
What a day!
Today was Will's last day of preschool. It was pretty momentous for me, but it seemed like he was just kind of like, "well, okay. Now for kindergarten." I will miss his teachers because they have done a fantastic job with him. We're enrolling Adelaide at the "Mother's Day Out" at Crosspoint next year because it is such an awesome program. I can't imagine anywhere else that a child would come home explaining Picasso's blue period and how "Mr. Vivaldi" wrote music about the seasons (noting that he recognized it from Baby Einstein videos) and still just have fun. It was great and I am so glad we found it.
Will has made great strides in maturity level over the last month. I have noticed it, Ben has noticed it, and his teachers REALLY noticed it. He got a happy face every day at school during May, which was really great for him. As a reward, we took him to a "Build-a-bear" knockoff called Wacky Bear in the Mall of Louisiana. He'd been asking for AGES to do that, so this was his big reward for doing so incredibly well over the last few weeks. I was ready to just feel like I was getting totally ripped off, but it was actually a fun experience. Ben took Adelaide so that I could pay total attention to Will, and we had a good time. He picked out his bear, and then the worker at the store stuffed it--but he let Will help. Will pressed the pedal that activated the stuffing mechanism, then he let will put the blinking "heart" inside the bear (The worker placed it so it was in the right place.) We got to name him (as creative as Will is, you'd think he'd have been more inventive than "Wacky"...but whatever...) and make a "birth certificate." Then Will picked out clothes for the bear. We got out of there for under $30, so I felt pretty good about the experience.
After that, Will was very serious about doting on Wacky. He carried him around like we carry Adelaide (do you think I'll need to make a "bear sling" for Wacky?) and was very contientious about where he put him. In fact, when Ben was taking Will to potty before we left to come home, I offered to hold Wacky while they went to the facilities. Will was actually skeptical -- he was like, "Mommy, take good care of him!" As I'm walking Adelaide in the stroller over to the Aveda store to browse, I answer him with, "Will, I can take care of a baby, I think I can take care of your bear." I then turn back the way I'm headed and promptly walk the stroller directly into a glass wall. Luckily, Will didn't see that or he probably would have done his bathroom business right there, he was being so OCD about the bear. It was cute, though. (Oh, and the baby -- and the glass wall -- are no worse for the wear.) He's sleeping with him now.
What a juxtiposition -- my big boy, maturing, leaving preschool behind, snuggled up with a teddy bear in bed. I love it, though. I am glad that my child is learning to mature, make good decisions, and be a helper, but that he is none to ready to leave childhood behind. I really do cherish these moments. The way God has blessed our family this year is incredible, and when I see my firstborn hold out his arms for me to hug him and tuck him into his Buzz Lightyear sheets, I feel it so acutely -- that love, that happiness, that true contentment that is permeating my life right now. I embrace it.
007 as a preschooler
I'm sure this is what 007 looked like at HIS preschool class parties. Will is, after all, a super spy.
Will Van Gogh1
Will learned about major artists this year in Pre-K, and they did projects in the style of some of the masters' classic works. This is mine and Ben's favorite one of the Van Gogh's. It is so good, and the texture (which you can't tell on the scan) is just great.
Will Picasso face
Will learned about major artists this year in Pre-K, and they did projects in the style of some of the masters' classic works.
Will Van Gogh irises1
Will learned about major artists this year in Pre-K, and they did projects in the style of some of the masters' classic works.
Will Van Gogh starry night1
Will learned about major artists this year in Pre-K, and they did projects in the style of some of the masters' classic works.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Adelaide's cover shot
Here she is...Miss Baton Rouge baaaaby
Haha, well, it isn't the greatest because I had to scan it in. I just ran by tonight to grab a couple. But I had to share!
Haha, well, it isn't the greatest because I had to scan it in. I just ran by tonight to grab a couple. But I had to share!
she hated the hat
I mean hated. fought. like I was strapping a bonnet full of bees on her head. But she forgot about it long enough to laugh at what her brother was doing.
Monday, May 08, 2006
hands at the window
so I'm in the kitchen cutting up zucchini for dinner when I hear banging. Not surprisingly, this doesn't really cause me very much pause. But then I hear Adelaide doing her "crazy belly laugh" thing. I look over and this is what I see! I literally dropped the vegetables on the countertop and RAN for my camera. It was adorable.
my boy in the window
I love this photo of him. He just looks so happy, in a real way, not a wild crazy way.
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