weekend end

Landon celebrated his birthday in school last week. He is an August birthday but in the same spirit as "everybody gets a trophy", no child's birthday is left uncelebrated in school. I made rice krispie treats and brought them in to the school for his birthday. That day I happened to pick them up at school and on the way home he was kindly sharing his RKTreats with the rest of us. They were as hard as a rock. I was thinking out loud, said "these are too hard" and I was wondering what I might have done wrong when making them and the little man, all small and buzz-cut in the back seats says exasperatedly "Oh, Mom, just enjoy them!".

Landon was selected to go to the preschool class and talk to them about what to expect in kindergarten. He would not share any details of how his talk went, what he said or anything. One of the teachers is a friend of mine and she told me that he told the class that "everyone is your friend in kindergarten."

And another thing I want to remember in a couple of years is when he saw one of the administrative people from the school he said "there's Mrs. Ulinger" and I said "how do you know her?" He looks at me all sheepish and says "well, I get written up a lot". Uh-oh.

In church tonight Landon was reading along with me and asked, "did somebody write these words?" So I told him that somebody did but God told them what to write. He looks up and says "well then technically God wrote them.

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Maura's Girl Scout troop had a sleepover at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island last night. I accompanied her because at the time it was set up, I was a co-leader. Anyway, it was my pleasure to be with my little girl overnight. I know I would have worried about her if I didn't go. It was a very cool event but it did involve sleeping in a sleeping bag on a tile floor with twenty two 9 year old girls. Get the picture?? She was going around taking pictures of everything with her Nintendo DSi- it was so precious. She really loved the bison for some reason, and the baby giraffe. I liked observing the behavioral patterns of my little female human the best.