Car Pancakes

This morning Evan asked me to make him a "car pancake" for breakfast.  When I gave it to him he replied: "Thanks, Mom.  You're a good kid."  (This is his "eating the pancake" face.)

Evan is enrolled in swimming lessons and gymnastics at the local YMCA.  I accidentally signed him up for the first-grade class instead of the pre-school class, but it actually seems to work out better.  He listens better when he is surrounded by older kids.  Here he is on the vault (arms up - "Ta-da!")

Normally, Jeremy picks Evan up from school each day.  Jeremy has had to work the past few Fridays, so I have been the one to pick Evan up and drop him off at my Mom's house.  He was so excited to see me last week!  Here he is running to me as the kids all come back from playing down by the creek.



And, of course, here are some Evan-Isms:

Feb 24, 2011

Evan: "Mom! Daddy let me have a cookie...but they were only for girls."

Me: "Only for girls? What do you mean? What kind of cookies were they?"
Evan: "They were made out of girls... when a girls shouts."
Me: "Oh! Girl Scout cookies! Honey, that's okay, boys can eat them, too. And they aren't made out of little girls, I promise."
 
Feb 18, 2011
Evan: "Mom! Look! A black kitty with white paws is outside!...I wish I could have a kitty like that."
Me: (sigh) "You're just like your Daddy, I tell ya'."
Evan: "Yeah, Mom! You TELL us! Tell us we can have a kitty like that!"

Feb 7, 2011
Evan: "Hey, mom, can I eat my booger?"
Me: "Eww, no. Want me to get you a Kleenex?"

Evan: "No thanks, I'll just put it back in my nose."

Red Cottage Montessori School

Here are some photos from Evan's first month in school that his teacher passed on to me.  Each day the kids spend an hour outside hiking the trails looking for deer beds, animal footprints, and enjoying nature on the bike trail and bluff behind the school. 

Down by the Hay Creek, accross the street from the school.

For those familiar with the Montessori method of education, you know that the school focuses on practical life skills as part of the curriculum.  Each child is allowed to choose their own work - and on this particular instance Evan decided he wanted to choose cleaning the windows!  He keeps asking to do this at home - I think I need to buy him a squeegee. 

Evan is LOVING school!  He loves his new friends and his teacher, Kai.  Every day when I get home from work I get an earful of all of the fantastic and fun things they did that day - what kind of animal tracks they found in the woods, what Hanna's favorite colors is, what work Evan chose that day, and all of the fabulous stories that a three-year-old's imagination can come up with.