Last night as we were getting Davey to sleep, he told us more about his first day of preschool.

At snack time, they had a paper cup of cheerios and a carton of milk.  Apparently Davey added the milk to the cheerios.  That would make sense if he had ever eaten cereal with milk, but he hasn’t and will not.  He said that he saw the “kindergarteners” doing it when he had visited the prior week.

He loved talking about the playground.

They played chase.  The person chasing them was a vampire.  “But it was not scary Mommy.  It was more of an exercise game.”

Then they chased a little boy.  (I am assuming (hoping) that this was a fun chase for the boy being chased.) He explained it in this way. “He runded and we runded, and he runded and we runded…it was a little awkward.”  Then he paused and grinned.

He broke his “stick”.  This is part of a flag system that they use to move from activity to activity.  He proceeded to flex his arms and show me how hard he’d “squeezed” it.  He said he didn’t know it would break that easily, but that they were going to make him a new one.  “Mommy, I saw a big bin of them on the shelf.”

He liked the area where they read books.  “There is a little sofa for kids.  We can sit by each other on the sofa and read books.”

He also explained that there were “red chairs and blue chairs.  The blue chairs were little for the kids.  The red chairs were big for the grown ups.  Even though red is not for girls, they still sat in them.”

I love getting his perspective.

Today was Davey’s first day of preschool.

He loved it.

The preschool called midmorning to say that he was having a “fantastic first day”.  Apparently he jumped right in there and wanted to participate in all the activities.

We received a daily activity report which told us all the things Davey and his class did today:

They read and talked about “The Little Red Hen”.  They also put on a puppet show.

They sorted pasta according to its size and shape.

They glued pasta to create an art project.

They moved their bodies like wiggly spaghetti while they danced (I guess you can guess the theme of the day.  They are talking about The Food Pyramid this week.  Today was Pasta day.)

They had a sensory table filled with cooked spaghetti.

They followed musical directions to the “Let’s Make a Pizza Song” (I’m not familiar with this tune).

They sorted foods into their proper spots on a computer game called “My Pyramid Blast off”.

Q is the letter of the week.

Davey ate lunch with them before he came home at 1pm.  He ate all of his cheese, most of his goldfish and some of his almond butter and jelly sandwich.  He wanted to save his gummy bears.  He drank some water and most of his juice.

Memorable Moment as written by his teacher:  “Davey had a great 1st day.  He made some new friends and had fun gluing noodles to his art!  He was so excited when a friend showed him his cool new ant farm.”

He can’t wait to go back.  Some of the kids stay all day and they were getting ready for naptime.  Davey was disappointed that he could not stay longer and have naptime with them.  Davey – seeking a nap.  That was a first for me.  “I’m tired Mommy!”

So glad I can blog and record his very first day of school!

Wee Tot.

Davey got a Lego set on New Year’s Day, and he and David had a great time putting it together.  Davey needed assistance building it,  but he did really well following the instructions with David.  And now he loves playing with it.

I see a lot of Legos in our future.  David loved them as a kid too so I think he likes building with them again as much as Davey does.  I like to build with them too.

On this day however, I was not part of the Lego building process.  That was ok.  I sat in the beanbag near them, and I knitted.

Yesterday, we painted.  Well, I helped pick out paint.  David did the painting with just a little help from Davey.

We had  two chocolate brown walls that we were not crazy about.

Davey wanted to help.  He kept a very close eye on Daddy to see just exactly how he was doing it.

Davey thought this was pretty neat.

There was some type of gravitational force which drew Davey and Koko toward the wet walls.  Koko had to go outside for awhile.  Davey ended up with a paint coated elbow.  He tried hard to stay away from the wall, but he had troubles judging distance.  It was also irresistible to him.  He wanted to “check to see if the paint was dry”!

Wall painting was a success, and we are happy with the colors we chose!

Christmas Eve was a great day spent at home.

I started cooking when I got up,  and I cooked and baked all day long.  While I really enjoyed it, I didn’t anticipate that it would take me the entire day.  My Christmas Eve dinner menu was a little ambitious I guess.  We could have easily have fed 10 people.  But I wanted lots of leftovers for the next few days of relaxing and playing (and knitting!).

It started with the cranberries.  (I just love pictures of cranberries.)

I also made my first ever cake roll.  It was a sponge cake with toffee cream filling.  I have this awesome High altitude cookbook, and it had the greatest instructions on how to accomplish this at 5,000 feet.  Sponge cake is not easy for me at sea level, but it turned out great.  I have a food shot, although it’s not too pretty. A memorable moment for me though so I must include it.

Davey helped me on and off throughout the day.

Here he was a little upset with David.  David had suggested that we trap Santa.  Davey didn’t like this and became worried that David might have immediately gone to the “naughty list”.

We made spritz cookies.

Davey helped decorate.  He loves eating sprinkles, but don’t worry these cookies stayed within our family.  Oh – well except for Santa.

Davey played in the snow.

And Davey and David built a snowman.

Davey wanted to go the carrot nose route, but David got inspired to do some snow sculpting.

Finally it was time for dinner.  Here’s the food shot.

I have to highly recommend the brussels sprouts recipe.  I don’t know if it is possible to not like brussels sprouts when made with this recipe from Pioneer Woman.  (I also made her sweet potato casserole (without the vanilla) and her cranberry sauce.  I enjoy  her recipes!)

I told David and Davey that there was a living Nativity scene at a Presbyterian Church near our house.  Turns out I was wrong.  I don’t know what I was looking at, but we arrived just in time for the candlelight Christmas Eve service.  The church was almost full except for the very front row.  So we were encouraged to sit there.  Turns out this was a great thing because Davey had lots to look at during the service which was very nice.  He sat there so quietly.  He also sang along and made up words as needed.  He loved the candles too.

Then it was time for bed.

Cookies for Santa –  and Davey insisted that Santa drink from his favorite blue cup.

And then Santa’s helpers wrapped.

Merry Christmas!