Little Teapot

Click here to see the video of Jammy playing and singing "I'm a Little Teapot."

Dynamite

Macho likes this video, because he likes to count the faces each time the screen changes.

The Tumble Gym

Jammy and Macho love The Tumble Gym.
Jammy wanted to do parkour like his biggest brother, the Conman, so Mom signed Jammy up for parkour lessons at The Tumble Gym.
It didn't take long for Macho to decide that he wanted in on this parkour stuff, too.  The trouble was that the parkour class was FULL of a bunch of wild and crazy 6-8 year olds. 
So, Mom signed Macho up for a 4 year old gymnastics class that was being held at the same time as parkour.  The problem with that gymnastics class is that it is FULL of 3-5 year old girls.  Macho could hardly believe it when he finally got to take a lesson and he had to sit with the girls!
Jammy's parkour teacher is very impressive.  He's like "the crazy little kid whisperer." He's agreed to let Macho try the parkour class with the big boys next week.  Mom's fingers are crossed.
Here's some videos of Jammy trying something new and eventually nailing it.
And here's a video where one can see why it is hard to teach Macho anything.  He will do what the teacher asks, when she asks him, if she is watching, but he really doesn't care about improving his gymnastic skills.  What he really wants to do is get across the beam faster than anyone else.
(He did do well at preschool today, though.  Mrs. C.'s plan looks like a good one.)

Remember when . . .

Mom's been looking at a lot of cute videos this weekend.  Here's one from last year's trip to Disney World.

Video: Going to Disney World!

Water Fight!

After a long day of waiting for Mom to finish managing the family video library, everyone went outside to "wash the cars" which was really just an excuse to have a water fight!!!

Video: Water Fight!

Field Day

Mom is afraid of failing to meet expectations, so she hasn't volunteered at school very many times.  Jammy doesn't complain, but he was especially excited that Mom would be the Station Captain for one of the games at his school's Pirate Field Day today. Mom should volunteer more often!

Jammy was the self-appointed VIP of the station: arriving early to set up, showing the other kids how the game would work, choosing which color bucket his class would use, and taking the point position for his team's line.  He was pretty happy that Mom was there.

It was a really hot day! It was already muggy when they arrived at 7:30 AM.  It was 95 degrees by the time it was all over.  There was a lot of bottled water available for the kids to drink, but one of the best things that any parent brought was a regular old spray bottle filled with water.  A dad walked around the field with his kid's class, misting them.  That dad was very popular.

Video: Jammy talks about tug o' war

The nicest thing about kindergartners is that they all play together.  They are all at least on speaking terms with the other members of their class.  They don't roll their eyes and ignore each other.  If one of them finds a cool bug on the ground, none of the others are too cool to come over and check it out.

Jammy's Point of View

Not unlike mom, if you give Jammy a camera, he will be busy taking pictures all day.

When Jammy is taking pictures (and movies), it is important to have a charger for the camera's battery and a way to offload the pictures, because the camera fills up quickly.

Spider!

Jammy found a big spider, crawling with babies, by the creek.

Mom took an interesting video, but be warned, it's a spider doing something kind of icky.