Welcome "Pookie" the turtle

Owen has be coveting this turtle at Build-A-Bear for at least a year.  Santa brought him a gift card and we went to pick him out today.  He got a Rangers uniform and some skates for him, which also made it exciting for me!

Letter to Santa

Skating

This is the first time he actually took some strides on his own.  He should be zipping around the ice by Christmas!

Snowboarding

We bought Owen a cheap snowboard last winter.  He couldn't even stand up on it then, but this morning he pulled it out and rode down the whole hill.  Couldn't believe it...

This is on Sunday, after it melted so it's much slower...

News Flash...

Owen says that he, "is the strongest man in Sporty Sprouts."

Library

Whit was the parent helper in Owen's class on Tuesday.  Tuesday is library day at Good Start, which is actually why she selected that day.

All the kids line up and file down the hall to the library where they select their books.  Apparently all the kids had chosen their books and checked them out, and Owen was still browsing.  Whit tried to prod him along, but the other kids had to wait for 10 minutes while he chose just the right ones...

Feather Duster at the ready...

Having some refreshment while helping 

Mummy clean. Tools on hand and ready to go!

More Spelling

He wrote "dog" for me when I got home tonight.  He'll be reading any day now...

Writing

Whit and Owen were doing some drawing and writing this afternoon and he decided to write the word "cat".  No prompting, he spelled it and wrote it himself!

Dancing

What did you learn at school today?

"I learned that bears eat deer."

Really?  I always pictured them eating things like salmon and blueberries.

"Well, now you can picture them eating deer."

True story

State Quarters

Thanks everyone for a very successful quarter hunt.  Owen just had to put the quarters in his book the moment we got home on Saturday.  It seems I missed a state in my original post, so now we're looking for Wisconsin, Hawaii and Nebraska.

Christmas Boy

Owen seems to have crossed a boundary into Christmas crazy this year.  We decorated the house and put up the tree yesterday, and he was absolutely bananas all day long.  Same thing this morning when he woke up.  As Whit said, kids are the ones who have it right -- as adults we seem to forget just how special this season is.  He hasn't talked about presents one time, it's just the decorations and the whole spirit of the holiday.  In past years I'm not sure he quite grasped the whole thing, but he definitely has it this year.  Merry Christmas!