Every week W’s school hosts show and tell on thursdays and fridays. Since W attends preschool daily he gets to participate twice a week. Show and tell has become one of his most favorite things. Usually the prompt for the show is alphabet themed. Last week the letter of the week was P and this week, naturally, the letter of the week is Q.
Last week W delighted in running around the house looking for “p things”. He would discover some toy or doo dad and hoist it up into the air and proclaim, “BLOCK! B – B – B- BLOCK! BLOCK STARTS WITH P!” I would sound out the letter b until he realized it was NOT p and then he would move on to the next item, “PAPER BAG! MAMA!! It’s a PEEEEEEE!!!!!”
I seriously love watching the doors of his mind open and open and open.
Before I was ever pregnant with W I remember lamenting on the blog that I may never get to know what motherhood is. Someone, in what I am sure was an attempt to soothe, commented that I was getting to know motherhood by being Millie’s caregiver.
Sure the overlaps for an infant’s needs and a person with Alzheimer’s needs can be noticeable. But the greatest joy of parenthood is the blooming. With Millie the bloom was fading daily. With W the bloom not only grows but new buds form and bloom. Daily.
I have heard that kids W’s age are like a sponge soaking up the world around them. That doesn’t feel right to me. A sponge absorbs, but then you just wring it out and start over. The garden visual is a lot more pleasing.
Yesterday I was certain that, because the letter of the week was Q, kids were to bring in objects beginning with the letter Q for show and tell. Q is an HARD word! We finally settled on a quarter (after a couple hilarious moments of W saying things like, “LUNCHBOX! LL L L L L L L ! LUNCHBOX STARTS WITH Q!”)
We got to school and I saw that I was wrong, while the letter of the week is Q the WORD for show and tell is pink. Oh boy did W give me the side eye over that. His most favorite color for show and tell and all he had was a lame quarter in a white paper bag?
This morning W spent twenty minutes trying to find a PERFECT PINK THING. Finally he selected one of his favorite toys. I looked at him grinning in the back of the car this morning and laughed. His love of pink married with his love of all things vehicle.
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I’d really love for W and Gio and Jacob to meet..let’s make that happen, hmmm?
Plus I adore his choice, go W. That is one HOT PINK TRUCK.
I would LOVE that!!
I love that lots of things don’t happen at the same time, but with having our kids 5 days apart, lots of things to happen similarly, like how WE HAD THIS SAME CONVERSATION IN OUR HOUSE THIS MORNING.
Roozle’s letter of the week is J and of course we keep forgetting to bring any J things, so yesterday I tried to trick her into thinking that JUMPING in the classroom was bringing a J thing to school. She wasn’t amused. Today, I cut her sandwich into a letter J. She criticized my J and drew one on some paper to show me what a REAL J looks like. Apparently only lowercase J’s are acceptable to Roozle. Note taken. Literally. She wrote me a note.
oooh! Jumping is a GREAT show and tell for J!
Greatest. truck. ever!
My kindergarten did the same thing with show & tell by letters. I remember one kid had “N” in a paper bag, and none of us could get what it was. It was nothing. Two million years later, I am still blown away by this. I hope this kid is now working to cure cancer or feed the hungry or something, because he must be a genius.
no. way.
you have to track down this kid!!
This is an awesome post…yay for the pink monster truck!!! And I like the analogy of a garden blooming…
goes with the seed thing I use with W.
hilarious. love a boy who loves his hot pink truck!
Fantastic truck!
That is totally adorable.
May I also say that your blog is much more enjoyable of late? I love reading all of the updates on W. Keep it up!
That is indeed the perfect pink thing.