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Friday, May 21, 2010

Preschool screening day!

Today was Jacks preschool screening....I have to admit, I was soooooo nervous about this.  Jack is a very quiet, shy kid when he's around other people, especially people he doesn't know.  All I could picture was him clinging to my leg and not talking at all to the teachers.      BOY DID HE PROVE ME WRONG!!  :)

He sat right next to one of the teachers, and she started asking him some basic questions.  He answered them all, without any prodding from me!  He did pretty good on the 'stacking the blocks the same way as the teacher' test.  It didn't turn out quite like the teachers, but very close.  He looked at his when he was done and said, "Mine doesn't look exactly like yours, but it's pretty close!"   I thought that was pretty funny!


Next test was finding all of the blue little plastic teddy bears out of about 30 multi-colored bears and putting them in a basket.  PERFECT!  At one point, he questioned weather a purple one was blue, asking the teacher, "is this one blue?  or is it purple....hmmm....I think it's purple, so it doesn't belong in the basket."  Nice job Jack!  I even questioned it...it was very close to the blue color!

Then the teacher read "The Very Hungry Catapillar" to Jack....he sat there listening to every word, asking questions along the way.  She got to the page when the caterpillar turned to a butterfly and Jack said "That sure is a very beautiful butterfly!  It was wings just like a ladybug!  Those are so they can fly!  Butterflies and ladybugs both fly!"   I thought that was pretty good!!

The last thing Jack had to do is color a picture of anything he wanted....when the teacher asked what it was, he said, "A monster!".  She asked where he lived, and he answered, "Africa!".  That's my boy!  (He is at least enjoying learning about other countries through our postcrossing project!)

I think he did a great job and definitely showed his personality!!  I wish more people could see that part of him...usually he's too shy!





Afterwards, we grabbed some food for lunch and had a picnic at the playground to celebrate! 


















 Jack had a great time on the playscape and even found a little friend there.  Jack asked him if he wanted to go down the slide together....another surprise today!!  Jack doesn't usually just start talking to other kids, it usually takes him a while, but he had so much fun with this boy.















Our last bit of fun for the day??  Uncle Chris took Jack, Hannah, and Luke out on the ATV for a ride through the woods on a trail and through the blueberry fields!  Jack had a blast!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Spring has sprung!

This week has been beautiful!!  The weather has been in the 60's and it's been sunny for days!!

On Wednesday, which was also St. Patricks day, we had our library program in the morning where the kids got to make a pot of gold with gold coins in it!!  Jack loved making that!!

Afterwards, we headed down to Fort Shantok to meet up with Auntie Scoot and Riley!!  We played on the playground, had a picnic lunch and walked the trail around the pond! 
Here are a few pictures from our park visit!

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Yesterday, Jack and I headed out to find a new geocache that was hidden only 4 miles from our house!!  The best part?  The park where is was located had a playscape!!

When we got there, I was eager to be the 'first to find', since no one had yet discovered it, so I convinced Jack that we would play on the playscape 'soon'!!  We headed into the woods, but my iPhone's GPS isn't as accurate as our Garmin GPS and we ended up walking in circles...until I tried to carry Jack over a little muddy area and ended up about a foot deep in MUD!
Well, that sounded like a good time to go play on the playscape and have the picnic lunch I brought. 
Jack really liked this 'cave', which was really the back side of the rock wall...it had a really cool dinosaur fossil!  We decided to give the geocache another shot, and headed towards the woods again...then another geocacher pulled up, hopped out of his car and walked directly to it!  We ended up talking for a few minutes, and walked away as the 'second to find'. 





On the way back to the car, Jack spotted a snake!  I'm not really a big fan of snakes, but Jack didn't seem to be bothered by him.  I always try to look 'cool' and say things like "Wow, isn't that an awesome snake, he's really cute" and "we should really have a closer look!"  Thankfully, he was a little one!  I had to convince Jack that we shouldn't touch snakes unless Daddy helps...so Jack studied him for a few minutes and we headed out on our next adventure.

We headed to another geocache that was at a monument in Norwich for Miantonomo.  He was was a chief of the Narragansett tribe of New England Indians.  Jack made the find on this one!  He found it quickly, we signed the log and headed out to our last treat of the day......
Our last stop was Hanks Dairy Bar in Plainfield!  It was opening day and we could really go for some ice cream!!  Mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!  This is someplace where I have a feeling we will end up often!