Today's the Day!

Today was Spencer's very first day of PRE-SCHOOL!!!!

Yup.. Todd and I signed him up about a month ago for the month of April to go to the Creche Pre-School program offered for 3-5 year olds at the Community Center (GOD I love that thing!).

He's going for 2 hours, twice a week.

This is him walking up the sidewalk to the front doors....

With his "pac pac" on!

Cute butt huh?

He ran all the way to the front doors and called back to tell me I was a slow poke! LOL!


So we waiting in the main foyer of the community center and then the classroom doors opened and in we went.


We went in, took off his "pac pac", unzipped his coat, kicked off his "Binoo's" (boots) and I asked him for a kiss before I went. He went to Darlene (we know her as one of our library time teachers), one of his teachers in the coat room, gave her a kiss and then turned around and gave me one! Too funny! He turned around and off he went... no fussing.. no tantrum.... no nothing.... WHEW!! But then again, I didn't really expect him to either! I guess I was right! I know he's going to have loads of fun today. There was talk of GREEN playdough today!

It's SO quiet! Awwww.... the quiet! I'm already lovin' this pre-school thing!!! YIPPEE for everyone!

On an interesting note.... we ate buffalo for dinner this past week when Todd had his days off and it was not half bad! We had it BBQed and then I threw the rest of the uneaten roast in the crock pot with my beef stew the next day and that was pretty good too!

A Busy Week and it's only Tuesday!

So far this week has been event filled. Spencer is in a week long swimming lessons session again. He received his Salamander report card last Friday at the end of his session. He received a few more check marks on it towards his Salamander badge. He seems to be progressing and that's all we're interested in right now. He has a ways to go yet to move to the next section.

We decided to try out the introductory session of gymnastics for the 3 and 4 year olds that they were offering this week too. It's only 4 days long, a half an hour per day but for $10.... who could resist!

So yesterday was our first session. There are 18 kids in his class and the room was loud! Lots of activity going on. All the kids were divided into groups of 6 and they rotated through each area of the "gym". The large room above the arena was converted to the "gym".

Our first section was the balance beam. Here he is... all by himself! On the high balance beam...

He loved doing somersaults on the tumbling mats too! He loved doing somersaults so much that he did so many of them to only stand up in front of me at the end of the mats and tried to walk forward only to find out that the room was spinning and he ended up walking in a semi-circle and falling on his butt!


The only thing I wasn't impressed with is that I had to participate. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I didn't want to but I was expecting instructors there to supervise. I want Spencer to be able to take instruction from other people and get consquences for any inapropriate actions if he misbehaves. I want to understand that he has to listen and not just "do his own thing".

So we're off in about an hour to his class again. It's good to see that he wasn't the only little boy either. It was almost 50/50 split for boys versus girls.

Todd's off on his 4 days off starting tomorrow. Thank goodness! I'm tired and I need a rest! He's been working extra time the past week or so though. He was scheduled to have 6 days off in a row and ended up working 2 of them in OT. He stayed for OT last night too to get a job done that needed to be done for the next shift. It'll be good to have him home!

Until our next post..... take care!

For My Mom

This link is especially for my Mom: click here!

Thanks Mom! You must have defiantly rubbed off on me! Hehehehe!

This Past Week & Some Family Notes

This past week has been a busy one! It just seems that one thing after another has come up.

Spencer enjoyed the rest of his mini St. Patrick's Day cupcakes.....

We've been swimming all this week in the mornings. The kids are on March break here and still have another week! Yup... BC kids get 2 weeks for Spring break!

Here's a picture of him in class on Thursday. The kids were swimming in the deep end.

Since he did SO well in his swimming class this week, we decided to put him in next week's classes too! He's improved a lot and his report card from this week was great! He picked up 4 more check marks on his "Salamander" badge.

Next week is going to be crazy too! Not only is he taking swimming lessons every morning, but he's also taking gymnastics in the afternoons. The community center is offering 4 sessions for kids. He'll be in a class of 3 & 4 year olds. I KNOW he's going to love this class! He can already walk the balance beam by himself and do a somersault all by himself too! Lots of driving to and from town next week!!

Notes for family & Friends:

The 6 days we are visiting in April:
Wed. Apr. 15th: - arriving in Hamilton at 12:38pm. To stay with my parents.
Thurs. Apr. 16th: -
Fri. Apr. 16th: - attending ScrapFest in Kitchener to assist Kerry from Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine.
Sat. Apr. 17th: - attending ScrapFest in Kitchener to assist Kerry from Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine.
Sun. Apr. 18th: - breakfast with Dianne & Amanda (email me girls!!!)
- dinner with the Israels family???? (Heidi & Penny: can we plan for a dinner gathering in London on this day? Talk to Judy & Dick for me too! Let me know!)
Mon. Apr. 19th: -
Tues. Apr. 20th: -
Tues. Apr. 21st: - leaving Hamilton airport at 7:25am.