How can my offspring (Maddox) not appreciate the library! It's near blasphemy. I think he actually was hoping we were going to Chick-Fil-A too (like we did last time), so the library alone was just not as cool. And he didn't get to slide any books back into the book drop-off today, so that was another downer. He is fascinated by the book drop-off. "Where do the books go? How to the people inside get them? Can I put my head in there real quick?"
He played the computer there while I picked out a new stack of books. We got Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Where the Wild Things Are, Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday, and a few books about the moon (our next unit).
Today was Andrew's second day back to work post-surgery and the boys cried so hard I had to bring out the "Let's go get a Sonic milkshake" card. It worked. They actually got a blue coconut slush and a grape slush, and of course tots. We came home and checked the mail. Jude was being extra sweet. He let Maddox open the mailbox (even though I mentioned it was his turn because his birthday cards were probably in there) and then he even offered Maddox half of his birthday money! Maddox gladly accepted, but I convinced Jude to give him half of his stickers instead.
Thank you Mimi and Poppy! He loved the dancing robot.
And tomorrow, I'm sure more cards will be waiting on him. As Maddox said, "I wish we had birthdays all the time!"
Today in school we made a sundial with a pencil, a piece of cardboard and a ball of Play-doh. Maddox just can't fathom a time before clocks. We checked on our grapes and they are looking more and more like raisins. Yay!
(The boys on their cardboard ship...with our sundial in the background)
He wanted to know why the guard at the gate had a funny voice. I told him it was called an accent and then he had a million questions about that. The conversation went from accents to different languages. Since he is so interested, I told Andrew to print off some Spanish worksheets at work and we will dabble with some Spanish words/culture. I loved it back in college, so maybe the boys will find it exciting too.
And one day, maybe Maddox will appreciate the library. Or else!
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