Dragon's First Day at Kindy

Today was Dragon’s first day of kindy (daycare).  So much for not making it into a big event so it wouldn’t freak him out... he made it a big event!  He was soooo excited!  I was only going to post one first day photo but in spite of our camera making every photo out of focus and too dark or some other issue (I hate it when cameras wreck special photos!) I felt that you needed to see ALL the photos we took this morning.  Don’t worry, there’s only 8 of them, but they just show Dragon’s personality and his excitement so well!

The drop off went smoothly.  He put his sheets away, we put his lunch box in the fridge together so he could find it later, we put his bag on the racks and we headed to the playground... and he was off!  I wished I had already said goodbye but I hadn’t so I signed him in and tracked him down for a kiss... that was the point that he got cold feet.  “Just stay for a little bit, please”.

I stayed for a bit and then they said his class was about to go inside so I said once they were all gathered to go inside I would leave. “please wait with me until we are inside”.

I went inside and we looked around to see who else was in his class and I gave him another kiss and cuddle and said I was leaving.  “just wait a bit more, please”.

I settled him down at the craft table found him a glue pot and some pom-poms to glue and gave him another kiss and cuddle and I was finally allowed to leave.

I think I liked it this way.  Lion made me feel almost unloved on his first day, I like to be needed but not with tears, just for a bit of reassurance and to help him settle in.

His teachers are wonderful.  As well as Miss C, who we knew he would have, there is one of Lion’s teachers from last year, Miss S, and another two ladies who seem really sweet and gentle.  I don’t really know the other two but if I could have handpicked his teachers I would have given him Miss C and Miss S so we know that it will be a WONDERFUL year.

What is he telling us he did today... “I did some stuff, mum”.  He has let bits and pieces slip though... he was singing a new song that he learnt, he must have heard ‘Little Miss Muffet’ at some point because he knew that one and I don’t think he did before, he turned the cubby house (it’s HUGE) into his house and took Miss C up to show her around and he informed Miss C in a very serious voice that “this was Lion’s kindy but it’s not now... It’s myyyyy kindy”.  He has a way of saying things like that that is so darn cute!  A big smile on his face and excitement in his voice but so serious at the same time that you wouldn’t dare disagree with him.

Well, he can’t wait to go back next week so I think we are on a winner here.

PS.  I survived too.  I picked had a coffee with a friend, picked up a few things I needed to get for Lion for school, took Lion on a promised trip to purchase a Lego set he has been working and saving for, got together a meal for a friend with a new baby and sat down for 5 or 10 minutes in there somewhere.

Sunday Snapshot

It's been one of those weeks that just flew by...

Monday we spent a big chunk of the day with Grannysaurus picking new taps etc for our bathroom.

Tuesday Wolf had the day off so we could take the kids to see an exhibit at the Museum of Tropical Queensland (MTQ).  They had a special exhibit “Creepy Crawlies Alive” and indeed they were, creepy, crawly and alive, that is.  They had Giant Burrowing Cockroaches, Giant Stick Insects, Bird Eating Spiders, Millipedes, Large Brown Scorpions (seriously,  that’s its common name), Giant Snails... are you getting the picture, a LOT of these creatures had ‘large’ or ‘giant’ in their names... it was icky.  I didn't take many photos.  Actually I only took one photo and it was outside.  It was of a Golden Orb Weaver spider that had built a web across the road.

This is not the only spider like this that we have around here, there is a Redback spinning a web in a tree at a park near us who is similar in size to this big fella.

Wednesday was a run of the mill day, staying at home, trying to get stuff done, all of my plans being thwarted by one or another of my progeny.

Thursday is usually a day for staying at home in the morning and when daddy knocks of early we all go and get the groceries done.  This week Wolf had other things he needed to do in the afternoon, like attack this...

Since it has rained almost every day since Christmas our yard that was a dust bowl on Christmas day has since turned jungle-like (that grass was about half way up my shins) and needed to be brought under control.  So since we still needed groceries the kids and I bribed Grannysaurus to help us with groceries in the morning so Wolf could get mowing in the afternoon.

Friday was featured in yesterdays post about my Beach Baby!

Saturday our only trip out was to buy Lion's school uniforms but the place we went to only stocked the sports shirts and nothing else so we still need to buy shorts and a formal shirt for him but we are a bit closer to having everything we need to start school.

Today we made it to church.  We get there every week but some weeks feel like more of an achievement than others depending on how chaotic our morning was.  I made cupcakes that did not turn out well at all but still taste yummy so I will have to just eat them all myself.

So there is a snapshot of our week.  It was a big week with lots to keep us busy.  I tried to involve the kids in cooking and preparing the food a bit more than I usually do and I remembered why I don't do it as much as I would like... Every time I told them "okay this is hot so don't touch it" Dragon had to check to see if I was telling the truth... a hot baking tray, the oven door, a hot frypan, a measuring cup of hot water... it all just gets too much for my poor old heart.  Thankfully the tray had cooled just enough to give him a fright and not burn him, the oven had not reached temperature yet, he touched a handle of the frypan and our hot water is set to a temperature that wont burn little ones.  I swear if I told the kid to keep his hands away from a bull-ant nest he'd just as likely dive on in!  He does it with everything... "that glue isn't dry so don't touch that yet" *touch* "your dinner is still hot don't take a bite yet" *bite* "don't touch that" *touch* "Eeewww, that was Monkey boogers I wiped on his bib"... he just doesn't learn.

Tomorrow Dragon starts kindy... I'm sad... he's excited... we'll see how we are feeling when I go to leave him there.  Tonight we went through everything that he already knows goes on at kindy.  I got him to tell me what happens when we get there in the morning, where his lunch goes, where his sheets go, who his teacher will be, what toys he might get to play with, just letting him realise that it's not a big deal, he already knows so much about kindy.  Tomorrow we will have the talk about how he might see some kids crying because they don't want their mummy or daddy to leave them but he can be a friend to those kids and ask them if they want to play with him and help them feel better and show them how fun kindy can be... hopefully then he wont think that it's something he can try on.  Pray for us!

Super Heroes In Training

Just another day at the office for the Super Heroes In Training.

(don't make that one into an acronym... I almost did and realised just in time)

Thanks for the shirts Nano!

Lion found a brand new school bag under the Christmas tree, he was excited but it quickly got pushed to the side for all the Lego and other toys until today.

Lion came into my room today while I was trying (for the zillionth time, thanks to the big boys) to get Monkey to sleep. I silently did my block at him and signalled in no uncertain terms that he was to remove himself from the room post-haste... it didn't work... "I just came in to see how I look wearing my new school bag" he says as he turns to the mirror and does a little back-and-forth to look at himself properly, "I look pretty good". What a sweet little thing he is, "yes you do, Lion. You do look pretty good."

I am going school supply shopping tomorrow. We are getting so close to it now, I have realised that one day a week I will have only Monkey at home. It makes me so happy that I will get to spend that time with him and he will get a break from his brothers (because lets face it, he really needs a break from all their loving) but it makes me sad that my crazy noisy house will be so much quieter on Mondays with just me and the baby. I need to pick up a few things for Dragon to start kindy too but I'm not making too much of a big deal out of that, I think his personality needs it to just be made out to be an "everyday" type thing, just going off to play with Miss C at kindy... have I told you his kindy teacher will be Miss C, Lion's first kindy teacher and a friend of ours since before we had kids? I am so happy about that... I don't think he would have been in on the idea of kindy if it wasn't for going to play with Miss C. God has this all under control... I just need to keep reminding myself of that. God will look after Lion no matter what school he goes to, I can stop worrying about picking the "right" school. God is preparing friends for both boys at Kindy and School and preparing them to be friends to others so I can stop worrying about that. God is preparing their teachers (oh boy, do they need preparation for Lion!) so I can stop worrying about the "right" teacher. Lion's compassion will be a positive and not a vulnerability, his heart-on-his-sleeve will encourage others and not make him a target for bullies, he's stronger than I give him credit for.

Anyway, I love shopping for stationery and stuff. I'm quite looking forward to that aspect of it. My teacher friends have given me advice on where it's okay to cut corners on brands and where it's not. Which cheap brand is good and which brand name brand is rubbish. Which items get stolen and how to name them so the teacher knows for sure who they belong to. What lunch box foods teachers hate in their class and which ones are winners. I've got the best friends!

It is going to be a year full of learning for all of us... I can't wait!

Our day - in small managable bites.

Did the world start to end at your place at about 5:30 this afternoon? Yeah, sorry, that was my fault, I went to the toilet. The boys went psycho as soon as I sat down. Screaming, yelling, hitting, punching, I have no idea what else, because after a few seconds I tuned out figuring there was nothing I could do since I have no voice today and was otherwise indisposed. The little one did present himself in front of me to dob on his brother for something or other but in the process of dobbing he disclosed some of his own behavioural misadventures and once I called him on those he went back to take care of things himself... more screaming, yelling, hitting, punching... eventually I finished and went to sort them out but I wonder if I had stayed in there longer if it really would have brought about the end of the world? Things were going down hill fast around here that's for sure!

My voice came back tonight during the bed time dramatics. Much to the disappointment of my offspring. I think they thought they had a free pass tonight to go completely feral. As my voice deteriorated throughout the day so did their behaviour. I won't tell you what I coughed up tonight that got my voice back but it was wonderful to leave the bedroom in a coughing fit barely able to breathe and not able to talk and then walk back in with my stern voice in full form and lay down the law. The looks of shock on their faces was priceless. They probably think I was faking it all day but oh well.

Doing groceries this afternoon and Dragon decided to swap body parts with me. Somehow it came up that I had a very sore throat so my sweet little boy swapped necks with me so it wouldn't hurt anymore... Awwww.

I got some weird looks this afternoon at Coles when I started my shopping with one trolley and it kept wanting to go to the left and when I already have trouble steering because I have to stand further back than normal because of my belly I decided it would be easier to swap than endure the frustration now and the back ache later. I parked the trolley I had with the boys in it, ducked out, grabbed a new trolley with no visible damage, brought it in, swapped kids, handbag and a few grocery items over and put the dodgy one back. Is this really as strange as what those around me seemed to think? I have swapped trolleys before, do other people do that or is it just me? Shopping with kids is hard enough, no need to give myself a back ache with a wayward trolley too!

Lion has Kindy tomorrow. I am really hoping that his teacher is back from her course because I didn't like the relief teacher he had last Friday. I know he struggles when there is a relief teacher, he is just a bit unsure what is going on and although he has an outgoing personality he gets thrown by big things like a teacher change and then when the teacher appears to be singling him out (although I think she just didn't know his name and didn't want to admit it in front of me but it really upset me to be watching and there are better ways she could have handled it) he really doesn't take it well. Thankfully his two other regular helpers were there though and he likes them a lot. I don't know why one of them couldn't be the teacher for the day as this relief chick is usually a helper in one of the other classrooms then they could have pulled in someone else in a helper role so the kids had a more familiar face up-front.

I also need to talk to his kindy teacher tomorrow because children's church is getting up and running again and his group is the first group to "lead" one. Over-eager parents who were concerned about the lost opportunity of outreach to the non-christian families in the kindy have been roped in volunteered to help and I am rostered on to lead with his teacher! YAY! 1st Monday in July we are starting Children's Church again!

My 4 year old is better on my iPod than me and my new book couldn't help me. He set it to repeat so one song would just play over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... well you get the picture. He couldn't tell me how to fix it though. His suggestion was that I need to go the the Y-R place and ask them "how to stop that song from J is for Jesus to not stop playing" I asked him what the Y-R place was and he gave me a detailed description of the building "it's a big building and it's not like a skyscraper but it's got a point on the top like a skyscraper" but that didn't help me so I asked how he knew they could "fix" my iPod... "well, your iPod has a spot for a plug doesn't it?"... okay so the Y-R place is just Lion's weird pronunciation of wire. I am assuming he means Dick Smith where we bought the iPod. I eventually gave up and just looked it up online and fixed it myself. I now no longer have to listen to a 3 line children's song repeating itself until I go insane if I want some tunes.

I made 6 litres of pea and ham soup today... YUM! The kids don't like it so they had the super nutritious option of spag-a-saurus and bread roll for dinner. It was their first foray into tinned spaghetti as far as I can remember and they think I'm a super fine chef and should make that for them again :(

I can't make pea and ham soup without thinking about shark attacks though... Uni prac will forever remain with me for that one thing... every winter as I make my soup I will remember prac.

The cuteness continues...

At Lion's kindy there is a ramp up to the gate on one side of the office or steps on the other side of the office, Lion likes the ramp, Dragon likes the steps, boy that can be frustrating. Then at the top there is a second gate and one section has a little ramp for wheelchair access and the other just a single very small step. Every time we go to get Lion, Dragon has to go and stand at the top of the little ramp and say "look me, doin' my exercises" as he does this little heel lift thing while holding on to the bars of the gate. Today he said "look me, doin' my magic trick" and stood at the top of the ramp and "balanced" without holding on sticking his arms though the bars. Mummy does the dutiful response "ooooooo, look, no hands, wow". Dragon gets a worried/panicky look on his face and looks at his hands... "No, there are 'ands on my arms!"

This is an old one but I have been remembering it lately because we have been listening to the CD again. "Great Big God" put out by Vineyard Music has been a favourite for a while but went out of rotation for a bit. The last week or so, Lion has been asking for it again and I have realised that he has grown up a bit since we last listened to it. The main thing I noticed is that in the song "God, You're Good to Me" he no longer sings "Bob, you're good to me..." I have no idea what Bob ever did for him but Lion is thankful. Trouble is now I can't help but sing "Bob" when I sing along. "Bob, you're good to me, opened my eyes and let me see, you heard me knock and opened up the door..."

*wanders off singing to Bob*

My big boy...

Lion goes back to kindy this week. We asked for a place for two days preferably Thursday-Friday but they weren't able to do that. He got a Friday same as last year but we had to take a Wednesday instead so it's a bit frustrating that we have a day in between but it was our second preference and better than one at the start of the week and one at the end. I was disappointed that he would be missing playgroup on Wednesdays but playgroup changed to a Tuesday so it will make things frantic to get to bible study which is now on a Wednesday but I decided to step back from being a leader this year so I think we'll be alright. (confused yet? I am)

I "lost" the offer letter so I had to ring kindy today to double check. I thought I had thrown out Wolf's jury duty letter off the fridge but it's still there so I am assuming I threw out the kindy offer letter accidentally instead.

I thought we would go out this morning to get him one new shirt (his shirts from last year are still fine, stained but fine) and maybe some new boardies since Dragon now fits his too so we need a few more. But he doesn't want any new ones, I told him I would at least soak his old ones to try and make them look a little less trashed. He doesn't do any craft at kindy but somehow comes home covered in paint and glue.

I am thinking that tomorrow I will just go buy him a new shirt so that he can look flash for his first day photo. He needs a new hat too, his head has grown so much in the last year, and it's never been small... you can be glad I wasn't blogging when I had him, there's a birth story no first time mum needs to hear... You put the skinny little fella in swimmers so you can see how scrawny he is and he could be mistaken for a (very very cute) bobble-head.

I'd better do groceries tomorrow so I have lunch to send with him too.

Can you believe I never posted his first day of Kindy photo last year? I just went looking for it and I got the post partly done but never finished it. So 12 months late here is my Lion on his first day of Kindy EVER!

The next step is to start deciding where we want to send him to school next year. We definitely don't want him going to our zoned school (it's a bit derro) so we need to get his name down somewhere (anywhere) else so that he can get a place.

Sweet Innocence

Lion came home from 'Kindy' the other day with his newest creation. He was so proud of it Mummy McT had to swing by work so he could come in and show it to me. It was an amazing piece of work. It brought on a fit of giggles for Mummy McT and Aunty J, who works with me. They acted like a bunch of schoolgirls. I, however, was quite proud of his construction.

Lion had made a Rocketship! Yes a Rocketship just like Mr Squiggles. He happily showed it off to everyone present and then zoomed it around the shop, through the card section where old ladies were browsing for the most flowerly card in the shop, blissfully unaware they were about to have a 'Rocketship' zoom past them. Through the music section where young punks with death metal t-shirts 'high-fived' him as he flew the 'rocketship' past them, stopping only when he came to a pile of green tinsel which he turned into a grassy knol, 'Look Daddy! Rocket has landed on the grass!'


Such an imagination, such an innocent young thing. I just wonder what his kindy teachers thought when they were helping him build it. I asked him if it was his idea and if anyone helped him, 'No I made it up all by myself... oh and but Miss C (his Kindy teacher) held it for me and helped me tape on the booster rockets and the nose cone.

THE kindy cake...

This is the Kindy cake...

I was happy to get away from the character cake thing with the mountains of coloured sugary icing! I strongly suggested that he would like a construction site cake for his birthday and then we could do the same thing at kindy. He thought that was a great idea and so off we went, I made enough chocolate crackle "rocks" to feed the kindy class and gave the duplo digger a bath and we were ready to roll. I piled up the rocks and placed one in the scoop of the digger and spread around the other duplo construction paraphernalia and piled up the back of the digger with little duplo shovels and an oil can. I did make extra rocks for our own little gathering next sunday to celebrate surviving another year with two boys but we are slowly eating them so I guess I'll be going out to buy another packet of rice bubbles.

I got the idea from this post by Crystal at Little Bit Funky. I had been dreading the sugar-fest that would be with two birthdays four days apart and the thought of two cakes at a combined "party" so her cake really appealed to me and all kids love chocolate crackles! I just have to come up with something for Dragon's birthday. He did see a cake here (that Dawn of Because I Said So made) while I was looking for inspiration and he set his little heart on it but all that red and sugar and uugh, no thanks. So, another dragon inspired cake with maybe chocolate crackles for the burnt up remains of a knight in shining armor? or perhaps some fruit in the shape of a number 2? or... or... or... okay, so not such great ideas, I'll think of something by the party. Speaking of that I had better whip up an invite to get out to people... I'll leave you with a shot of the birthday boy enjoying his "cake"

PS. We saw 'Emily Loves To Bounce' at the theatre, it was a little disappointing, didn't hold at all to the book it was based on and was a bit modern-theatre-ish so the kids didnt really follow what was going on. Lion kept asking when Emily was coming out and I was trying to explain that it's not actually the story in the book, in this show Emily is a ball... Oh, confusing... But the bus trip was fantastic and I am sure next time he wont be at all concerned about going on a bus. He did wake up on the morning of the trip and told me that he had a dream about going on the bus... "was it a good dream or a yucky dream?" I asked him, "it was a good dream mummy because you were with me" YAY!!!

So, you want to take a cake to kindy? The self-help guide for first-time kindy mums.

Actually this is nothing of the sort. I am just fretting about the ideas that my darling Lion seems to have for the cake that we are taking to kindy tomorrow for his brithday (on sunday). Seemed simple enough to me when I had the idea... it's a construction site with most parts made out of duplo and I'll make the rocks. I know he will be thrilled with whatever I make but I can see a little competative streak in him for his mum to out-do all the other mums that have brought in cakes. I hope I don't disapoint.


I am helping out by being the "grown-up presence" at an excursion to the theatre tomorrow and then I'll stay for some cake after that. I got a special spot on the excursion because Lion was having nighmares about going on the bus (yes my nearly 4 year old has never been on a bus, public transport here is not so great). He has had a lot of people praying for him lately and it is making a difference, we were having a nightmare a night (not just about bus trips) and after we mentioned it while we were away this weekend one lovely man from our church was very concerned and when he lead the devotion/prayers before bed time that night he prayed for no nightmares and each morning he asked Lion if he had any nightmares and there were NONE! then we got home and this has continued, no nightmares, every night he stays in his own bed ALL NIGHT!


Here's Lion's previous birthday cakes... (minus his first birthday, I cant seem to get the CD drive to work, it was a Lion face)

Bob the Builder 2nd birthday

Roley 3rd birthday

I hope he's gone to sleep now so I can start it...

My Child is a Creative Genius... could also be called My Child Cant Be Bothered to Take more Than Two Minutes To Create Anything For Me At Kindy

Lion is creative, VERY creative, just not in your stereotypical loves to paint and draw and glue type creative way... He can create an alter-ego and stay in character for days on end, never faltering. He can see birds and animals and machinery where to anyone else there is NOTHING THERE. He creates his own games that have highly complex rules (at least as soon as I think I have them figured out there is a whole new facet to them). He turns a toast cooling rack (becasuse we all love cold toast???) into a grapple or a digger or a harvester. He is creative. I am believing however that his kindy teachers pin him down every few weeks and force him to put some sort of marks on paper so that they can feel justified in putting my fees towards craft equipment. Here is the latest installment that came home last week...

I used the old "so tell me all about this lovely picture" trick. "it's a skog mummy" "oh, silly me, I was holding it upside down, now I see it. Yes it does look like a skog" "No it doesnt because I left it's legs off" "oh" (well what else could I say????)

And here's another one in a different medium...

mmmmm, yellow... yep, he's quite the artist. See the star hiding behind that yellow paper??? That is the artist (aka Lion) screaming through his art that he is feeling like he is hiding in the background trying to get out, he can peek around the edges but just cant get past the main players. No, no, actually it's saying he feels like a star stuck in a world of um, yellow triangles... okay, I've lost my art interpretation skills since uni.

We got a little more with this one, I was so excited with this one I actually asked the teacher if it was really his and if he had help and "really, is it his?" and yes, it's his, he did it, he used all those colours and different strokes and the whole piece of paper...

And finally, he does seem to feel more confident expressing himself with collage, particularly buttons and christmas decorations...

And all of these have been hung on the wall. So whose kids bring home beautiful art works every week and wonder what to do with them all? Send them to me! this is it for a year of kindy! one day a week sinc the end of January, this is the craft I have to show. Actually I also have a massive box creation that is a working model of an excavator, moving parts and all. I gush over them all equally, I love that he gets so excited that I am excited about his art.

Note: Lion's kindy is brilliant, they are worth every cent we pay them (when we remember to pay) and they put up with him and I dont care if he does craft or not. It's more like I am dropping him off with friends. I just wish he would cry when I leave, just once. And perhaps NOT cry when I come to pick him up, just once.

It's all in the Delivery

Why did the Light pole walk?.......I dont know, why did the light pole walk?....... It cant because it doesnt have any feet and it has to stay in the same place!

Okay, I guess it was the way he told it that had me laughing. What about this one...

Why did the toad cross the road?...... I dont know, why did the toad cross the road?....... Because it wanted to chop down a tree to stop all the cars!

So perhaps that one was all in the delivery as well... and perhaps a little disturbing too... um, lets try one more...

Why did the cow climb up the tree?....... I dont know, why did the cow climb up the tree?...... Because it wanted to visit the cockroaches up in the tree!

Well, okay, I'll admit, you have to be a special person to think Lion is actually funny but his delivery had me cracking up! Hope you got a laugh on this lovely Sunday!

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And for all those who think their kids are the only ones that do hideously inappropriate things in public Lion came into Blockbuster with us yesterday afternoon and at one point pulled down his pants to show his backside, wiggled it about and said "mum, look at my butt" Boy did he feel the sting of Mummy McTavish's hand on his very bare backside. I informed him that no one wanted to see his butt in the video shop and he had better keep it in his pants unless he wants another smack "But mum, I was only showing it to YOU" "well I dont want to see your butt either". We always ask where he got his little gems like this from and this time he pre-empted the question "I just thought of that all by myself mummy". He is such an intelligent child! I mean it!!!! It takes a special boy to think "hmm, we are in a crowded video store on a saturday afternoon, I bet mum wants me to whip out my backside and shake it for her". Still, at least it was over straight away. Not like the friday morning Wolf taught him to say "shake it, dont break it, it took your mother 9 months to make it". Oh the anxiety... Friday is kindy day. 8 hours mummy-less with Lion having a new phrase in his head. I was panicing about picking him up that afternoon!!!! The conversation would start, "um, mummy McT, Lion was a good boy today, he did this and he did that but... um... when we were all sitting quietly for a story he stood up started wiggling his bottom saying..." at this point mummy is franticly looking for the nearest way out, leaving her child behind (because if I dont take him people might think that he isnt actually mine) and running screaming for the hills. I have always told Wolf, "before you teach Lion anything imagine him saying it at the top of his lungs in the middle of coles. if that would be appropriate then go ahead, if that has the potential to embarrass me then best not teach him." Thankfully the "dont break it" never got a mention at kindy (just at a friends house a few days later!!!) and I think wolf got in enough trouble that he has never mentioned it again. His kindy teacher is a friend so we know she would take it well (and probably not believe him if he said daddy taught him, why do people assume all the bad stuff comes from me????).

So anyway, take heart, my child can embarass his parents with the best of them. My current panic is the elders retreat coming up. Wolf has recently become an elder and apparently they want families to come to the elders retreat!!! That means my boys with a captive audience for a whole weekend. Can you imagine what might happen?????? Oh, it doesnt bear thinking about...

I last posted about all the questions Lion asks, then the next day i trundled off the the kindy parent teacher interview and found out they have had to call in Pastor M to deal with one of his questions!!!!! Last week at kindy they were discussing that God made the world, and all the trees and plants, he made the animals and the people and then Miss C asked if any of the kids had a question... Of course Lion has a question!!!!!

Who made God?

Miss C said she did her best but told them that she would see if Pastor M could come in and talk to them a bit more about all those tricky questions. Not bad for a 3 year old.

The rest of the meeting went really well, Miss C was very positive about everything, although even when Miss C says something that is a negative you could be excused if you miss it mistaking it for a positive, she's just one of those teachers. Lion loves to make sure as many people as possible are involved in games or building or craft he is doing, he is compassionate and caring and kind and loving and co-operative and exuberant. He needs to work on his volume (yeah, we've noticed that one!!!) and concentration for some things. He loves movement and music and also loves to ask questions...

First rule of 'Skippy-roo'

Driving home from work today I asked Lion how his day at kindy was. Here's a verbatim of what was said:

Wolf: Lion, did you have an exciting day at kindy?
Lion: Yep
Wolf: What did you do?
Lion: Played with the trucks.
(this is the standard answer I get every time I ask him the question - he is there for nearly 8 hours, surely they must do something else.)
Wolf: Did you sing any songs?
Lion: Yep.
Wolf: Can you sing one to me.
Lion: No, I'm a bit tired.
W: Did you make anything in craft?
L: No, I played with the trucks.
Mummy McT: You played a fun game didn't you? What was it called?
L: Yeah I did! It was called Skippy-roo.
W: How do you play that?
L: I don't want to talk about it.
W: Come on Lion, tell me the rules, how do you play?
L: Daddy, we do not talk about Skippy-roo.
W: (hiding a laugh) So the first rule of Skippy-roo is 'We don't talk about Skippy-roo?'
L: I can't talk about it, Daddy.

hmm... I wonder if Brad Pitt plays Skippy-roo? Then again he wouldn't be able to tell me if he did.
-Wolf McT

Breakfast Time

Lion was sitting talking to himself at breakfast this morning "it's a SOULment mixer, You gotta, gotta, gotta have soul" I could make out that Lion is super spiritual and draw some deep conclusions from this but I think the truth would be more like this... Lion watches too much TV and has a well developed sense of humor for his age.

Dragon, well, draw what conclusions you want from this... We dropped wolf of at work and I turned around to find that Dragon had opened up Lions kindy lunch bag and was trying to open his lunch box to get the sangas out. I got them off him and put everything back in the bag but couldn't find the yoghurt. Wolf search all over the place, so did I. we came to the conclusion that i must have forgotten to put it in the bag. I could remember breaking one off the pack but couldnt actually remember putting it in. Since Lion was a little light on the lunch without it I remembered Grandma went soft the other day when we did some shopping and agreed to buy some Bob the Builder yoghurt for him to have at her house (mummy is mean and only buys the ones with the mark down sticker on). Off we trundle to Grandmas to snaffle one of her yoghurts, Mummy runs inside, explains to grandma the situation, grabs a yoghurt and goes back out to the car. "Dragon found the o-gut Mummy" and so he had. He must have felt "his" yoghurt was safe now mummy had another one for Lion and pulled it out of wherever it was hiding. we tried to give one back to grandma but as we were pulling out Dragon looked so sad and wouldnt wave, "yow, yow, yow" so we stopped and got his "yow" back from grandma and took off for kindy. we were late, not surprisingly. As we were leaving kindy I put Dragon in his seat and started to drive off and I hear a delighted little voice in the back "Yow, Yow, Yow" I think he had spotted it in the front and was already anticipating his yummy morning tea that he had single handedly saved from the clutches of Kindy and of grandma.