Kindergarten Round-up

Each year Y's school holds a night for the incoming kindergartens and their parents to come in, ask questions, pick up materials, etc. it's called Kindergarten Round-up and we first found out about it when we went in to register her for Kindergarten.

It was absolutely fabulous!  Y was able to go off with the other incoming students and the teachers; they did some color and played a game while the parents were able to have a Q&A session with the principal.  I can honestly say that this night at the school, seeing what it will be like, interacting with the teachers has helped to change her mind about attending school in the fall.  Over the past month she had warmed up a bit more to the idea but this actually excited and energized her.  It even made me excited for her because I now know that she will be attending an excellent school, in an excellent district with awesome faculty and staff.

At the close of the night we were all able to board a couple buses and let the kids take a ride on the school bus and I'm fairly certain that was Y's absolute favorite part (and Q's too)!

Tobogganing

Y & Q were watching an episode of Caillou while I was in the kitchen making dinner and talking with B.  In the episode Caillou's preschool class was going to go tobogganing (sledding) but he couldn't find his toboggan.  He was sad (blah, blah, blah) until his teacher gives him the idea of creating a toboggan out of a cardboard box which he then decorated and of course all the other kids wanted to use his toboggan to because it was just so GREAT!

Well after it ended Y comes to me and says, "mommy, I can't find a box big enough."  After more questioning I figured out that she wanted to decorate a box and pretend to go sledding.  Well we didn't have a big box (or any box) available so I told her to just use the laundry basket and pretend.

A few minutes later I hear, "watch out Q, I'm going tobogganing."  Q had been playing on the stairs so after a quick moment I began to wonder if Y was actually going to try to go tobogganing down the stairs.  I dropped everything and moved as fast as I could to discover Y near the edge of the steps ready to push herself down.  Fortunately we were able to stop her before she pushed off but we had to explain that it's just pretend, that she can't actually go sledding in the house OR down any set of stairs.

She was sad but did allow us to snap a quick picture and have a good laugh.

Coincidence? I Sure Hope So...

This guy (above) is Redfoo from the group LMFAO.  Though I've seen him before I had to use Google to find out what his "name" is.  I am also 100% sure that my 4½ year old would have no clue who this guy was if she was shown a photo of him yet, in the collage below it sure seems to me as if she is channeling him with her crazy hair and weird outfit.

One thing is for sure though...we have a performer on our hands!