Lillian says

Aug 27, 2016: After getting dressed up with jewelry and a new dress: Lillian says look at my new dress-ipie!

August 2016: While swimming in the swimming pool told Michael. "Would you let go? I can do it on my own." Note: Lillian can not swim. Wisely, Michael did not let go.

September 17, 2016: Breakfast time, Lillian asked for sausage. Joe gives her half. She asks for more. Like a good uncle, he saw a teaching moment. As he served her the second sausage half this went down...
Joe: Lillian, what do two halves make?
Lillian: A CAKE!

September 23, 2016
L: It's so dark!

Dad: Where did the sun go?

L: Over the moon! 

Simon's First Robot

Simon is in a Robotics after school class and he brought home his first robot. A drumming robot that he put together himself. He's quite proud of himself and I'm really proud of him too!

Kindergarten Field Trips

Simon's Kindergarten class is shooting to go on a field trip a month. They went to the Children's Museum in September and yesterday they went to the Apple Store and learned to use the iMovies app. Here is Simon's movie with his friend Caden.

Quiet Saturday

Having a quiet Saturday at home because our adventure plans for the day were rained out. We made cookies and crowns and read books and watched a movie and now Lillian is playing Mario with Alan while I read my book. Simon is playing a baseball video game and cheering for himself every time he wins and Lillian yells from the other room 'good job,Simon! Love that my kids encourage each other like that!

Simon's 2016 Walkathon!

Hi All!

It is Walkathon time!! Last year Simon was so proud to get a medal for being one of the top 25 fundraisers in the entire school and we want to do even better this year! 

Hamilton Elementary is raising money for a soccer pitch and a makers lab (where kids can build and explore). Please take a look at his fundraising page and consider contributing.

http://hamilton.dojiggy.com/ng/index.cfm/12632/regPages/pledge/simon

CCC: Pictures of Lillian

Lillian is officially in the Pre-K room all the time now. She's learning letters, numbers, pre-reading skills, charts and graphs.

Love the 80s fashion sense in this first picture: 

Lump on Simon's head

Simon comes home from school during his 3rd week of Kindergarten and he has a solid lump on his head. It's pretty noticeable and I'm surprised the teacher didn't call me to tell me about it (it was big).

I ask him what happened. He gets a dodgy look on his face and says he fell. I prompt him, he says he fell in the bathroom. I push more, "Did the teacher talk to you about it?" He said yes, that he told her he fell and that he was ok. Which is true, he seems totally fine... But I'm still curious - what was he doing in the bathroom that made him fall? He evaded, I pushed. 

HE WAS TRYING TO SPY ON THE STALL AND FACE PLANTED ON TO THE FLOOR. 

I laugh out loud every time I think of it now but somehow managed not to laugh when he told me. Instead I said that he knew he wasn't supposed to look under those doors.  I'm a model of restraint. Though now I know why he didn't want to tell me or the teacher what happened!


Picture is from 2 days later... Lump under the cowlick is pretty noticeable still.