Fun on The Farm

It was field trip time a couple of weeks ago. I'm hoping next year we will go someplace different. Not that I don't like One Fun Farm, I actually really like it a lot, but we went there for his field trip last year in preschool too. At least this year they got to do a few new things that they missed out on last year.

One of those was jumping on this HUGE trampoline...

(Jayke is the fourth kid from the left...it's hard to tell because all the kindergarteners wear orange shirts when on field trips.)



It was funny to watch all those kids bouncing but then one brave dad joined them along with Mr. Logan, the cadet teacher, and the two kindergarten teachers. The kids all immediately went into attack mode and had the two guys down on the tramp. There were so many kids on top of them you couldn't even see the poor guys. I was shocked no one got hurt. There wasn't any crying at all which amazed me.

Since I passed my criminal background check...snicker...I was permitted to supervise Jaykeb and his friend Ben while on the farm. I think in the future I may request to NOT be in charge of my own kid. They all have told me how well behaved he is but as soon as I show up he looses his mind! I was about to ask that the teacher have him pull a behavior card. Ben, on the other hand, was extremely well behaved. I'm sure if his mother had been there it would have been a different story for him too. Mothers seem to bring out the worst in their kids.



I tried to get a picture of the whole class but trying to get all those kids to hold still is difficult. Not to mention that I got out there and discovered that my battery on my Nikon was dead. I had to rely on the cell phone camera again. Jayke is sitting up on the straw bales next to Mr. Logan, their cadet teacher from Delta High School.




We got to eat lunch there and before leaving all the kids got to go into the pumpkin patch and select a pumpkin to bring home. Jayke brought his straight home and colored it black. We had perfect weather for our trip and I think aside from Jayke's grouchiness at times, we all had a good time.

This week is Red Ribbon Week. They are wearing bracelets everyday, Wednesday is Red day, Thursday is Jersey day, and Friday is crazy tie day. Oma made Jayke a lovely little tie to wear. They also have a skating party Thursday and fall party on Friday. I hope I can keep track of all this!

Meet Jack

We carved our pumpkin last night. I decided to just do a face this year instead of some intricate design that takes forever. Jayke picked the face out of a book of patterns.



As you can see, we had plenty of help. Luna was right in there eating the pumpkin guts as we pulled them out and put them in a bow.







Jayke got to go to a Halloween party at the YMCA tonight with Opa too. They had a magician there and now he is interested in magic. They bounced in a huge bounce house, played bowling, and got a small pumpkin and treat bag. He is counting down the days until Halloween. Mike is going trick or treating with us and Jaykeb is very excited about that.






We went on our field trip the other day. I have a coupld pictures that I will put up tomorrow. Jayke also got his school pictures back, finished up another season of soccer, and got his first report card. His report card was very good. Pluses in everything. She says he is the quietest most well behaved kid in the class. He is an excellant role model for the other boys who all like him. He does all his work and is right where he should be. They all want to take him home every night. Nothing shocking about that!

Meow

Oh suuuuure she looks sweet here but in reality she is a flying ball of fur and teeny tiny claws! It has been a long time since I have had a kitten and I had forgotten what they are like when they are really little and before they can get their claws removed. I have tiny claw marks covering my arms, hands, legs, and feet. The worst part though was when I woke up the other night and Luna was standing on my face. I reached to move her and it must have scared her because she tried to run, digging her claws into my face. I hesitantly got up to look at the damage in the mirror and was shocked! I looked like a vampire! Blood all over my hands and face. She is lucky she lived through that night.

I am not the only one being abused by little Lunatic...the dogs are being tormented on a regular basis. They walk through the house with a kitty hanging from their tail. My accessories are being rearranged and my floor lamp with the paper shade took a hit the other night. It sits next to the couch and apparently caught her eye for the first time because she all of a sudden leaped from the couch to the lamp, landing almost at the very top. She hung there motionless as the lamp slowly began to fall over. I could read her mind by the way her eyes were bulging from her head and her ears were laying straight back. She was thinking, "Oh sh*t! What have I done?!" I caught both cat and lamp as they made their way to the ground saving them both because Luna would have been in big trouble had she ruined my lamp. I had to carefully extract her tiny claws from the paper shade. She sat there afterwards looking at me as if I had ruined all her fun.

Jaykeb is particularly careful with the little terror. He hasn't managed to avoid her completely though. She barely caught him on the thumb with her tiny claw the other day and the drama that insued was oscar worthy. First there was a lot of screaming for a bandaid. From the racket I thought she had bitten his thumb clear off and was surely sitting in the corner munching on it. Upon inspection, I found a very small hint of blood on his thumb but proceeded to bandage it as if it were the traumatic injury he thought it was. After we tended to his wound he turned his attention back to Luna. "I HATE LUNA!!!! I WISH SHE HAD NEVER COME HERE!!!" This went on for probably 45 minutes. I finally threatened to give her back to Holly and this slowed him down a little but not completely. My child is the king of drama and isn't afraid to show it.

Only 4 more months until we can get her claws removed...please pray for her that she makes it!

Friends and Enemies

I think Jayke had his first fight with a friend at school yesterday. Not a physical fight...just a disagreement. He has had two best friends at school since he started, Ian and Ben. Yesterday he came home and told me he IS NOT going to be friends with Ben anymore! Apparently Ben got out of line while coming back from the library and when Jayke moved up and took his spot Ben tried to say that Jayke cut in line! Jaykeb then proceeded to go and tell on Ben for accusing him of this. I don't exactly know where things went from there but Jayke came home determined to NOT be friends with evil Ben anymore!

I think Alex has now taken Ben's spot on the friend's list. Jayke has his friend on the bus, Jonathan AND his "Arch enemy", Parker as well. Parker is not in his class but is always on the playground where he throws rocks and torments everyone. Alex and Jonathan also both play soccer but not on our team. Ian just lives down the road to the east of our neighborhood and Jonathan lives in the neighborhood directly to the west of ours. Jayke clearly doesn't know in which house though because he took me on a wild goose chase the other night looking for it. I'm happy that there are a couple of kids close by who he is friends with. Maybe eventually they will play together at home.

So did you follow all that? If so could you explain it to me 'cause I'm starting to think I may need a score card. All this will clearly wear a person out!