Why can't we breathe underwater?

Wow, I did not realize it has been a month since I last posted.

Zack asked a question today which led to some Internet searching which led to more questions and so on. His original question was "If we drink water why can't we breathe underwater?" Seriously? He is six, where are these types of questions coming from? I, being the not so scientific type HAD to look that up. When trying to explain the info that I found he started asking more questions like why does our bodies need the water?... what happens if we don't get enough water?...will humans evolve into super humans?...I can not wait for school to start back in session so he can ask his teacher these kinds of questions and I don't have to feel so much like an idiot not knowing the answers.

Smartie Pants

Yesterday I told Zack to get ready we were going out. In typical Zack fashion he questioned me a hundred times to find out where we were going. Each time I told him I would not answer him, just to get ready, buckle up and sit back. As we got closer to Kris' job Zack said "I know we are going to pick up dad and go to lunch." Me being the smart butt that I have been known to be responded with "Nope, I am dropping you off at Dads job so you can work for him. Then him and I are going to go to lunch without you." Zack took all of 2 seconds to come back with "Mom, I can not do Dad's job, I have no idea if X = 2,342."
All I can say is aww crap I have created a kid who can come back with the smart butt comments quicker than I can!

Storms and conversations

We had a storm tonight. Storm nights usually require a lot of conversation to bring down the level of anxiety from my little man. There was so much lightning that I made Zack turn the television off. Then the  power went on and off a few times so he sat and listened to his Tag Reader for a while. When he started getting anxious I quickly started thinking up different subjects of conversation to keep his mind off the storm. At one point we were talking about the trees getting enough water, then the conversation turned to the tree in our front yard having to many branches and it needs to be trimmed. Then out of no where he says " Mom if someone ever invents a pencil that never needs sharpening we are all going to be in trouble." I wasn't following in what he was saying so I had to ask what he meant by that. He responded with "well Mom if someone invents a pencil that never needs to be sharpened then all over would be forests because no one would be cutting down the trees to make pencils." I didn't have the heart to tell him that those kind of pencils had already been invented and his theory was wasted. Maybe one day soon I will get him a mechanical pencil and see if he catches on.

Zacks funny for the day.

Weeks ago I warned Zack that just because it was summer time it did not mean he wasn't going to be learning. I bought a couple different work books for him to do a few pages in each day. Today was the day we started using those books. He chose to do some pages from the spelling book. But...while he was making his choice of subject to work on, he took a close look at the covers of the work books, he pointed to the circle at bottom of the cover that says 64 fun pages. He looked up at me and said "Ha that's a lie, there is nothing fun about these books." Then he grabbed the spelling book and walked out of the room.

I just had to laugh because as smart as this kid is he sure does not like anything that forces him to learn.

Summer time.

It is official

We now have a rising first grader in our house. I can not believe my baby has finished kindergarten. Why is he growing up so fast?

Yesterday was the last day of school, the final day of kindergarten. My baby was excited. He was as happy as a clam. He was thrilled that only a few more hours of school time before he gets to "goof off" for the summer.

He was awake when I went into his room to get him up for school. He finished his breakfast in record time. He brushed his teeth, washed and combed his hair in a matter of seconds (yes I made him brush his teeth again the proper amount of time). He dressed quickly even after fussing over wanting a different shirt. The shoes and socks were put on more quickly than I had ever seen it happen before.

Why was he getting things done so quickly? I will tell you why. The last day of kindergarten in my sons school means all kindergartners get to walk over to the local park with their class after the awards ceremony and spend the day playing on the playground and eating pizza for lunch! Yeah buddy what better way to end the school year.

He was all smiles when he came home. Telling me all about playing with his friends from last years pre-k class, playing with his friends from other kindergarten classrooms. He proceeded to tell me all about how many pieces of pizza he had (he should be grateful I did not show up because there is no way I would have let him eat that many). He told me about the cookies they had, the watermelon and all the drinks.

I have to say he is going to be disappointed next year on the last day of school because all the other grades get the privilege of staying in the classroom with the teachers and taking down all the artwork and decorations from the walls, making sure everything is counted and inventoried and boxed up for the summer.

Of course the celebration had to continue at home too. Once school was out the video games came out (playing video games in our house on a day other than the weekend is unheard of). We took him out to eat and ended dinner with dessert (yet another thing that is something we rarely do). Once we were home from dinner I gave him a year end gift (books of course) and to top it all off, like a cherry on top of an ice cream cone, he was able to stay up an hour later than his normal bed time.

Now just because it is summer does not mean the learning stops, one of those books I gave him was a gross science experiments book, that should be fun. His school does a thing where they ask parents to clean off their bookshelves, donate some books so all the kids get to come in and choose some books to take home for continued summer reading. They also started a program this year where the kids keep track of their reading over the summer and earn prizes when school starts in August.

All this reading is a good thing. My rising first grader is reading at a 2-3 grade level. We will be working on the writing all summer long too because he now has his very first pen pal (how awesome is that). Plus his teacher requested that he write in a journal all summer because (as she says) as smart as he is, he should be writing his own books by now.

Here's to a happy exciting mind expanding summer!