Wy's First Sports Class

After a few minutes of initial apprehension, Wy was attentive and fun during his first sports class. It's designed for little ones, an intro to the five major team sports: soccer, baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Luckily, class started off with soccer since Finn too is doing soccer this fall and Wylie pays close attention to what his brother is doing.

Coach Alex, who has taught many of Finn's sports classes - indeed this same one when he was two - called the kids over and from there Wy dutifully followed all instructions and showed some decent skill. He also made one of the coaches laugh a lot, which is so typical for our little man with his outsized personality.

Taking direction . . .

Stretching . . .

Trapping . . .

Hey, no hands! . . .

Celebrating . . .

Tid bits from Kindergarten

Finn takes a "need to know" approach to what he will tell me about his day in the new world of elementary school.  The fact that I am dying to know more and ask endless questions only works against me, I am sure.  So I will revel in the tid bits he does share.  And, I cannot help but marvel over the boy-ness of the aspects of school he talks about--lunch, recess, gym.

Wednesday, 9/28--It is the third day of school and Finn has figured out that he has options at lunch.  He came home today and said, "I want hot lunch tomorrow."  Apparently there is a sign-in-type board in his classroom where the kids have to indicate their lunch plans for the day--brought a lunch, hot lunch, or the alternative school lunches, a salad or sandwich.  It is possible that he wants to take the hot lunch because of some sort of status it earns him on the board.

Thursday, 8/29--An older boy, possibly the only other Concordia-bound-kid, told Finn that there are bullies...on the bus to Concordia or at Concordia.  Somewhere, there are bullies.  So now, Finn has remarked a few times that he didn't see any bullies today.  Breaks my heart that he knows about bullies already.

Wednesday, 9/4--"Today was an exciting day," Finn said during dinner.  Mr. Wise (or Wiza?), the new PE teacher, has hit Finn's sweet spot--games that involve running and chasing.  So far PE class appears to be all about variations of Tag.  Finn is in heaven.  He has now explained to me the rules for "Everyone is It Tag" (I think that's what it is called.) three times.  Today he went to extensive detail about "Line Tag."  Oh and, "Today," Finn said in awe, "we got to play in the big gym."

Wylie in the morning

A joy of my renewed morning commute to Concordia--Wylie time!  Unlike Finn, he opening shares his thoughts and feelings and observations and experiences, often with exuberance. 

Here are some Wylie snippets from our morning drive:

"We are at Concordia!  Hee, hee, hee!"
"I found another dump truck!"
"There is my classroom.  Hurray!"

9/5--"Let's look for dinosaurs!"  Wylie decided when I asked what animal we should look for on the way to school. We even saw a school bus-dinosaur. 

9/11--When I asked him what he was going to do at school today, Wylie enthusiastically replied, "Sing!"  Apparently the song goes, "the cows in the kitchen go moo, moo, moo!"  Makes me smile. 

A walk in the rain with Wylie

Overjoyed to use the umbrella, but with no intention of using it to stay dry!