Monday, November 21, 2011

I Was Just Thinking Mom...Dad...

Zachary is in a stage where he thinks really hard about the facts and has some great ideas as a result!

Scott is transferring to another division at Southwest Research. I'm thrilled that he won't have random days/nights where he has to go in at strange hours so they can work round the clock to get testing done. He's also excited about the new projects he will get to work on. It likely will involve space!! I know he's excited. Upon hearing this information Zachary had a thought. There is a series on Netflix about space.  Zachary and Scott enjoy watching it together sometimes and in fact Zachary chooses it for his 30 minute morning show sometimes. So when Scott was telling Zachary about the things he might get to work on Zachary said, "Daddy you should watch more of the space show.  You might need to know that stuff".  Scott thought about it and in all honesty said, "You are probably right. I may very well need to know some of the information on those shows".

Zachary has also been very interested in sports lately.  He really wants to try baseball and then soccer. We were watching Sunday football on FOX this past Sunday.  We are excited when a soccer game comes on and Zachary is interested in seeing the game.  He asks a lot of questions.  He does mention that he is a little afraid to play because he might get hit by other players or collide with them.  We explain about the rules and talk about the gear they wear to protect themselves. And then I say, "yeah I really like soccer. I wish I could play on a team right now but there isn't one convenient at this time".  Zachary says, "that's ok. You can be on my baseball team".

The last of the clever words I have to share happened today. The kids and I were going into HEB. I was holding Zachary's hand to cross the street of course. I let go on the sidewalk so he could see if there were any "car carts". As soon as I dropped his hand he said, "My hand fell because of gravity. It was just pulling it down".

Love to see and listen to the things kids learn :)

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Daily Laughs

Zachary's daily experiences and happenings have given me a couple of stories to post about today.  Thinking about them remind me of how much he is learning each day.

A couple of weeks ago I was serving lunch one weekday.  We have learning place mats; one with the ASL alphabet, one with the periodic table, one with musical instruments, and another with the presidents.  Zachary was studying the one in front of him which happened to be the presidents. Zachary knows very well that we live in San Antonio.  He also knows that one of his very good friends moved to the place called Washington.  Zachary looked up and asked me, "Where is San Antonio on here?".  I looked at his place mat and then said, "Well, that place mat has the presidents on there.  It doesn't have the cities or states".  He said, I know but where is San Antonio on here?"  I repeated myself again and finally he said, "Washington is on here, so where is San Antonio?".  I got it. "Oh I see I said.  That is George Washington.  That's his name and the place Meredith lives was named after him.  We didn't have a president named San Antonio.  :)

A couple of nights ago Scott and I were admiring a coloring page that was on Zachary's wall. I hadn't put it up and neither had Scott.  "Zachary did you put this up?" Scott asked.  He answered yes.  I remembered that he had asked me for tape earlier that day and said so.  We both were admiring that he had figured out how to put it up.  Somehow Zachary ended up telling us that the tape didn't work so well.  "So what did you use?" we asked.  "I used a gluestick".  ohhhh. I remembered that he had been trying to put glue on it that day too. I had not seen him actually glue the paper to anything so that was where it had ended up.  "You glued this??" "yes". I tried to pull it off a bit. It was stuck stuck stuck.  Oh wow.  Needless to say, we were both proud of him for using great problem solving skills.  We did though, explain to him that there are other ways to hang things on the wall and that glue doesn't end up working out so well in the end. :)