New School

Look who wanted to take pictures of his first day!

And here is the best shot of the three of us I could get, ah toddlers!

After just a couple of weeks I can see a change in Adam, he’s more patient and observant and wants to know why about everything! When we’re reading a book and there’s a lot going on a page he asks us to ‘Talk about it’.  He wants to know how every animal walks and talks, since they do alot of that at school.  He shows me the yoga and handstands that he learned at school.

In honor of his first day of school, here are my current top five that I love about Adam.

1) Every night we have to sing Happy Birthday before Adam goes to sleep, tonight we sang Happy Birthday to his and Teo’s dinosaurs, yesterday it was to Gregory’s fish and rabbit.  You always know what’s popular in Adam’s word because they’ll get a shout out during Happy Birthday.

2) The past couple night after a couple Happy Birthdays and a couple verses of Wheels on the Bus, Adam cut us off with a ‘Niiiiight’.  After years of trying to convince Adam that it’s time for bed he seems to have finally had enough of my off tune singing.  Randy and I walked out laughing, maybe our days of singing ‘Happy Birthday to the firetruck’ with us elbowing each other at the ridiculousness of what we were doing, are coming to an end.

3) Adam’s now entered the ‘Why’ stage.  He asks Why after everything.  He asked if we were in an elevator the other day and then asked why it was an elevator….very existential of you Adam, but I have no clue!

4) He loves moving his chair over to watch what we’re cooking and he now cooks us pretend cookies.  Then he presents them to us and tells us they’re hot and that we can’t have any until after dinner.

5) He LOVES horses.  Every time we let him pick a little toy at the toy store he chooses a horse, we now have 6…and just this weekend he decided that the bench in our room is his horse gate.  When I asked him what his horse’s name is, he replied ‘Al Capone’.  I should just leave it at that, but I’ll explain, when we went horse back riding back in Baguio (before Greece!) his horse’s name was Al Capone, it must have really made an impression because he remembered it all this time later!

He sits in there and has feed him carrots and hay.  It’s pretty much the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.  I have no idea where he got the idea but he will sit there and eat the imaginary hay out of your hair so gently it makes me want to scoop him up and give him a million kisses.