Energy

Aaron came back from his trip with a bunch of PwC stuff. One of which was a pedometer. Aaron tracks his steps everyday with his watch and we ask him a lot how many steps he has, so when he brought home one that they could use, they were excited to try and get their 10,000 steps for the day. They ran around in circles trying to get their steps.


And would periodically look at the pedometer to see how many steps they had.


But of course they still had more energy and it was a nice weekend, so we went on a walk and Blake wanted to ride the tricycle. He had fun going down the hill by the pond by our house.

One of Blake's homework assignments was to make a box for his valentine's day party for all the cards.  Moms spent hours on these boxes although some of them I will admit were very creative and cute, but way more work then I would every put into. I am all about easy. We try to participate in all the Home depot projects and this one we weren't going to miss because we were going to make a box for Valentine's day. It was perfect. We went and made the box and Blake loved his box. It ended up being a little too small for all his goodies, but still fun.  After the project, Blake and Dylan wrote out their Valentines for their parties. Then we ate lunch and went over to our friends' house to play. They have a big dog...didn't even smell us or lick us, but Blake freaked out. Dylan on the other hand wanted to pet the dog. Aside from the dog, we all had fun. Speaking with playing with friends, I wanted to note Blake's recess progress. In the beginning of the year he was kind of freaked out with kindergarten and with recess. He would just sit on the playground. I talked to all his friends and told them to go try to get Blake to play with them and they did. Soon Blake would play for a couple minutes, then he would go sit back down. He progressed and played with his BFF Cohen everyday. Then he would play with is buddy from his class Carson. Cohen moved away and now Blake plays with everyone. I don't know if he doesn't want to play with just one person because he was just playing with Cohen and he moved so I don't know if that left an impact. He now goes up to kids who aren't playing with anyone and asks if they want to play with them. He switches constantly with kids and as we saw at his class party, he is good friends with all his classmates. They love Blake. It is fun to see him growing up. I will say it was interesting when he told me that he played with all the girls in his class (there are 5 girls in his class...the rest are boys). I asked if he was the only boy and he said..um, yeah!