Volunteer

I have had a great year volunteering at Mason's school. Rob decided to go with me on my last scheduled day, I love it so much that I didn't let him go by himself. The dates were so hard to get because of all the giving moms that I wasn't able to get as many as I would have liked so giving them to Rob just wasn't an option!

All in the Same Size

Oh my, we did it again! Warm sunny days call for shorts. Put something new in Mason's drawer and he will find it. A "new" pair of shorts showed up in his drawer and guess what size they are.......18 months! How he squeezed himself into these is beyond me and why he kept squeezing into them is a mystery. He was disappointed when I told him he had to go change and he didn't have a new pair os shorts to wear for the day!

School Carnival

We went to our first Spring Ridge school carnival. I was the treasurer for the event, which was a very easy gig. I was recruited for spreadsheet help and I do love a spreadsheet, so all went well. The numbers were good for the event! Everyone had a good time, unfortunately Rob wasn't able to join us for the night because he had to work. A fun packed evening. Ellery wasn't old enough to do the monkey motion, but Mason was very excited to do it! We did end the night doing the cake walk, sure we had to play until both Mason and Ellery won, so it was all about winning! Guess that is a lesson we still need to work on.

Mohawk

Oh, the things we let go and allow our kids to do. Mason buzzed his hair to a "1" last time and when my friend Anne saw him she told me she could do it. I joked telling her she could have told me sooner and saved me $10. Well, I decided to take her up on her offer and saved us $10. She cut Mason's hair and went the extra mile for his request. Not my favorite hair cut, but he was thrilled. We call him WTM aka White Trash Mason. We originally left it a mohawk from top to bottom. The original deal was that it was all going to get shaved off the next day, so it didn't matter how it looked, but he loved it so much that we just shaved off the back of the mohawk and left it on top. 

Mason 4th Quarter-Mid quarter report

Mason came home with his mid quarter report for the 4th quarter.
Thematic Units included the following: eggs and chicks; spring; trees; plants and seeds; weather; caring for the earth; reduce, reuse, recycle.
Concepts are language arts and mathematics. Mason is satisfactory in both categories. He is reading, writing, and doing math. He is also satisfactory in personal and social growth.
Mrs. Farley wrote the following in the comments section:Mason continues to do well in all areas. He can work on the following:
-staying focused during work time (especially writing so that he produces his best work)
-neat handwriting-this has improved

Overall we can't complain!

Mason School Music Program

Mason debuted in his first school music program. They sang Friday Nights, Under the Sea, and You've Got a Friend in Me. They had actions they did with the songs and a speaking part he had to memorize. The video of him singing is too big to upload, but you really aren't missing anything. Rob captured the smile in the and it shows his excitement. We were surprised that he actually participated and sang. When they sing at church he doesn't sing and he may or amy not do the actions! As the night went on the actions were smaller and smaller as Mason lost interest or was just too tired to carry on!

Reduce-Reuse-Recycle

Mason is talking about recycling in school and they asked for him to take a picture of himself making an impact on recycling. He is more than happy to help take out the recycle bin at this point in time. Funny how I mentioned him helping prior to this movement at school and he had no interest! The power school holds while I hold none! Hmmmm something is wrong!

Another loose tooth

We have another really lose tooth. Warning: this video contains wiggling in inappropriate ways!

Eagle Report

Mason's school has an Eagle Report every morning. It is produced in the library and the reports are staffed from the 5th grades. The  5th grade anchors do invite in reports from the field aka younger classes. They do the kindergartners towards the end of the year and invite the parents to sit in the library or known these days as the "media center". I think if you asked Mason if his school had a library he would say you mean the media center. Regardless of the somatics these days we sat in the room full of books and watched Mason on the TV. He had to do a report on tools to prepare himself for the big event and I don't think we have to worry about him being camera shy!

Tonsils

I couldn't take it anymore. I finally took Mason into an ENT for his big tonsil.  We were 99% sure it was fine, but I couldn't take that 1% any longer so into a specialist we went. Rob works with Dr. Deb Goebel, and she is super sweet and nice. She talked me through everything and eased my concerns. Mason will just have to grow into his big tonsil because ideally it should stop growing at this point in time as he grows. If anyone can pull off a big tonsil, I am sure Mason can!

Lost the FIRST tooth

Mason went to school today with his tooth still in his mouth. He came home without the tooth in his mouth! I guess he was playing with it at free choice centers and played with it so much it fell out!
He wanted to write the tooth fairy a note before he went to bed, and the tooth fairy wrote him a note back and signed it in red glitter. She also left a little glitter on the window seal, Ellery didn't like another person coming into the house at night. We had to reassure her that the tooth fairy wouldn't use her window or come into her room! Mason was very excited and was hoping the tooth fairy would bring him $10 so he could buy something ikspisiv aka expensive! His tooth fairy only brought him $1, but it never hurts to ask!

Dear Mason,

Thank you for the nice note. I really enjoyed it! I hope you save your money so you can buy something expensive. I will keep your tooth safe in a jar.

Love,
The Tooth Fairy

Mason 3rd Quarter Report

Per Mrs. Farley: Mason had a great 3rd quarter! His strengths include: letter recognition, sound knowledge, number recognition, counting sight word knowledge, rhyming and sequencing pictures and events. He is very capable of writing his name, numbers, and letters neatly and ""the school way" if he slows down and focuses on the task. I believe Mason could be doing much better in the area of math-but in most cases he's not listening to the direct tins, he's not paying attention to the details of the task and hurries to get done first. I will continue to remind Mason that we only want his BEST work. I hope Mason has enjoyed reading all kinds of book sot his family. He is rockin' and rollin' with his reading.

We have a wiggly one

We have a wiggly one, a really really wiggly one!
We have our first lose tooth! Mason can't stop playing with it. I can tolerate a lot of things, but wiggly teeth--not so much!

No School

We didn't have any school today so a group from school decided to meet at The Playdazium at Skatedaze! Sure we just went, but the kids were super excited to go back again so soon! Mason's best friend Sam went with us and Mason and Sam happened to dress alike for the day! These boys just warm my heart!

Shoe Tie

Mason can tie his shoes! Finally! We bought a pair of tie shoes a month ago and set the rule that he could wear them if he learned how to tie them. The skill took more work than what Mason anticipated so he chose not to wear them. On went life and a few weeks later we decided to try again. Mason likes the Cars 2 matchbox cars so we decided to use them as incentive. Yeah, it worked. If he tied his shoes 7 times he would get the yellow car. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 I get a car-Yellow!

Parent Teacher Conference

We had Mason's parent teacher conference. He did get a great report. He is able to do all the work and grasps concepts, but he is loosing focus at school. Instead of doing his best work he rushes through his work or gets distracted by the other kids and doesn't do it the school way. Take his writing in the attached picture. The teacher read the book The Paper Bag Princess before she read the end of the book to them she asked them to write what they thought she should do. Mason has thoughts and visions, we just need to work on keeping him focused!

Mason Thoghts

Mason isn't as funny as Ellery, but he gets a few in.

Today he had a statement for me and he had given this one a lot of thought.

Mason: Mom, did you know even if your kids get taller than their parents, they are still the kids parents?

Poor Mason, he is tall for his age and it is hard for him and his friends to figure out that he is younger than they are but yet he is taller. Someone told him that taller=older and we have had to do some convincing him otherwise.

The other thing we are working on is that shoes don't make you faster. For some reason his green tie shoes make him run faster than his other shoes. 1. due to the shoes and 2. they are lighter than his other shoes making them able to run faster. No matter how I try to explain this one to him, he isn't catching on. We can't wear tie shoes on PE days because they make him run so fast that he can't stop himself before running into the wall?

Mrs. Farley

I have been a bit disappointed in school this year with having 24 kids in a kindergarten class, but I haven't been disappointed in his teacher Mrs. Farley. All the things you wish for your kid in school=Mrs. Farley. I still enjoy going to the school every week and volunteering in his class. I am in charge of teaching 6 kids for 45 minutes in a station. Talk about pressure, but I really do enjoy it. This week I was early and I got to watch Mason talk about what he would buy if he had $100 in front of the class. His response shocked me, but appropriate. We don't have any Mario games, but his friend next door does. So if Mason had $100. He would buy Mario Cart so he could drive FAST! He is also reading like a champ. So fun to watch him sound out words he doesn't know and also read his phonetic spelling! I can't believe how much he has grown up over the year!

Hip Action

We are really into dancing in our underwear in this house. Oh, sorry bad visual I say we, but really mean the kids. Rob and I stay clothed and Rob usually just watches these dance parties. I found out that my kids watch me closer than I thought. I love to shake my hips and so do my kids. They especially love to shake them to the Rio song. It doesn't matter what moves Mason is doing when the samba master comes on he stops everything and moves his hips at a slower pace and very exaggerated. Ellery does it as well, and it makes me grin from ear to ear!
Publish Post

No Ellery

I need to draw with Mason more, but I really don't enjoy it so I seem to put it off. He doesn't give a lot of detail and I think it is the fact that he doesn't ever see us draw to pick up on those details because if you say add some feet or clothes he will do it, but he doesn't get into the details without prompting. I found this family portrait hysterical. He didn't want to confuse me for Ellery so he specified that this picture had NO ELLERY! I couldn't get the reason out of him, but it gave me a good chuckle!