Volunteering

Today I volunteered at Max's school for an hour and a half. Let me tell you that this was way out of my comfort zone. I was definitely a fish out of water when it comes to volunteering in a preschool class. I would rather do a budget presentation to owners of a company because preschoolers (not mine though) terrify me.

I do believe that it's good to venture out of your comfort zone every once in a while because that is how you can grow as a person. It's not good to always be comfortable. So, I am glad I volunteered and I survived an hour and a half with 12 four and five year olds.

They started the day off with a prayer, the pledge of allegiance and then calendar time. They talked about today, yesterday and tomorrow. They also counted together out loud to 22. I watched and observed during the carpet time. When that was over, the kids moved onto center time.

I was responsible for one of the "centers" during center time. They were learning about cones today so during my center the kids made giant ice cream cones and they represented their favorite flavor of ice cream by gluing on colored tissue paper. They decorated the cone using paint and a fork.

I didn't know if taking pictures was allowed so I snuck a couple of Max working on his ice cream cone.




There were tears when I had to leave. Max did not want me to go. He really enjoyed having me in the room. Even though I was definitely out of my element in the classroom I really enjoyed being in their to watch Max. I also got to see how one adult can get 12 four and five year old children to listen. That was interesting and Ms. Lisa did an excellent job of that.

Weekend Update

We didn't do much this past weekend, but we did have some people over on Saturday for dinner and swimming. Max had a great time with Uncle Tom and Tim since Sprecher was in town. We swam, played and just hung out.

Rain and Pool Party

On Saturday morning it was raining and Max was super excited. He went and got his rain boots on and we headed outside in his jam jams to play. He is definitely an Arizona baby because it wasn't raining hard at all and he thought the little bit of rain was so cool. Of course I took pictures.






In the afternoon we went to our friend's house for a pool party. All the kids played together while us friends got to catch up.

I've said it before, and I will say it again "It's pretty awesome to watch your kid play with your friends kids."

Go Cubs Go

This weekend was filled with Cubs games. On Friday night Ms. Diana came to the house so we could get out of the house for a double date night with our friends to the Cubs game. This is the first time in forever that we were able to stay the whole game since Max wasn't with us. We had great seats and even better company.


Max had said that he wanted to go to a Cubs game sometime so we got tickets for Sunday and took Max too. Max did say that he wanted to go to the game in the shade and not sit in the hot sun. We believe he was referencing the spring training games. We informed him that we are going to the big stadium downtown that is inside and he was excited for that. Plus, we decided to go for brunch with our friends...and the best part...we were going to ride the public transportation train all the way to downtown Tempe for brunch.


After a very yummy brunch, we then got back on the train and headed to the game in downtown Phoenix. We were packed in like sardines for the second train ride because apparently riding public transportation to the game downtown is the thing to do. Max had a blast on the train though, but he had even more fun at the game. We had pretty good seats behind home plate in the first row on the upper deck. It made for great viewing.

We left the game a little early because Max was tired and I was honestly not interested in being packed like a sardine for a 50 minute train ride all the way back to our car. Basically, I was one of those parents who was trying to beat the crowd out of the stadium. I wouldn't have minded so much if we had our own car down there. It was just the sardine part that I was not a fan of and would have preferred not to ride that way all the way back. Max passed out on me within 10 minutes of being on the train. He was exhausted from the day's activities. I was pretty much holding him like a baby most of the time even though he is too big for that and it was super uncomfortable.

The Cubs made for an exciting weekend and I now can say I rode the train. It was worth it for Max's excitement. I can check riding public transportation in Phoenix off my bucket list.

Lots of Questions

This is the first weekend in a very long time that we had no plans and so we decided to keep it that way. It was pretty low key. Andy painted most of the weekend while I entertained Max. On Saturday Max asked me so many questions all day long. This is very normal. He always asks a lot of questions and that's good. He's learning, but it is exhausting answering all those questions. I seriously felt like I answered over a hundred questions on Saturday. Andy and I were laughing about this, so I decided to take notes on Sunday of all of his questions. I was able to jot down a total of 44 questions. I know this is only half the questions because sometimes he was firing them off so fast that I would miss some. Other times I just plain forgot and Andy would remind me that I just missed four questions in a row. I also was not able to jot down the questions he asked while we swam in the pool and that was a good 2.5 hours of missed question recording.

I did this out of pure entertainment, so here are some of the questions Max asked us on Sunday. Enjoy!

1. Why mommy didn't open her box?

2. Where did you find it?

3. Mommy, how are we going to get it?

4. Why you didn't? (he asked this three times in a row)

5. Why does the helicopter power not work?

6. Where is daddy's screw driver?

7. What does this do in the back mommy?

8. Mommy, what time did u get up this morning?

8. What time did daddy get up?

9. What time did I get up?

10. Why did you take the blanket off the bed?

11. Daddy, want to play hot lava?

12. Why?

13. Why do you have to paint?

14. Who did that?

15. Why did daddy say later?

16. What's that in your hand?

17. Why did they do that?

18. Why did the people like this house?

19. Why did the other people like this house?

20. Why did you put that there daddy?

21. Why don't you want to paint the wood?

22. Why are you picking that up?

23. What you said?

24. Daddy, why did you move all that stuff?

25. Why?

26. What are u having for lunch?

27. What's that?

28. Why you want it?

29. What are you doing in the fridge?

30. Why is that out?

31. What are you doing?

32. Which one do you like? (he asked this three times)

33. Daddy, what's this one?

34. What is this mommy?

35. What box is that?

36. What's that?

37. What's a twig mommy?

38. What guy's face?

39. What is country music?

40. What kind of music do you like?

41. What's that doggy trying to do?

42. Where did you buy the strawberries?

43. What?

44. Why?

That is the life of living with a curious four year old. And, that is only a sample of a full days questions.

Pool Time With Friends

Last weekend we had our Oregon friends over at the house for some pool time. Max and Bianna had a blast together swimming and playing. After they left Max kept talking about Bianna. He had a hard time saying her name since it's so unique so he kept asking about "that girl," but I knew what he meant. I worked with him on her name and he soon started calling her by her name. He said the next time he plays with Bianna and Annicka they will play with water balloons.

It is so much fun to hang out with friends and watch your kids be friends too. It was the highlight of my weekend.