A Little Adventure

Today was Milo’s first day of school. It went well. The only problem was that Holly woke up before 6:00 am and woke up Milo. He was a little tired as a result. He wanted to go into the school by himself. I thought that was fine. I’m sure in a few days, I’ll be able to drop him off in the car line. We shall see.

This is the picture I took of Milo and Holly before school.

After school, Milo said everything went well. He now comes out of the back of the school when they come home, so it took us a little longer and then we had to drive around, so I’m thinking we’ll do it differently tomorrow.

Milo is super excited about his teacher. He got a male teacher. Milo told us last week, he wanted the male teacher and his wish came true.

Holly did miss Milo quite a bit today. We did go to school to put together the weekly folders that go home to parents. Holly got to see Milo and was really excited about that. She didn’t want to leave the classroom.

It should be a great year!

I realized that since school was starting in a month, I better get going on some posts. Milo had his end of year assembly the week before school ended. It was fun because Aunt Jill was able to come to it as well. Milo’s teacher was on maternity leave, but she felt it was important to come in to hand out the awards. Milo’s award was for trustworthiness. We aren’t really sure what that is suppose to mean. We did enjoy the assembly. I can’t believe how much he is growing up.

In an effort to encourage Milo to read books this summer, I got the idea to have the family read books along with him to encourage him. As of today, he has finished 2 books. He is in the middle of a couple of books.

The other encouraging thing that happened was our neighbors had some books they were giving away. They had quite a few in the Magic Treehouse Series, so we got half and our other neighbor’s got the other half of the series. Milo is super excited about those and so maybe we can get some of those read.

He is still enjoying the My Weird School Daze Books by Dan Gutman.

The pictures below are of Milo reading. He is also very proud of his new books.

Wow, Milo’s birthday was more than a month ago. He was super excited for his birthday. It was the last day of school, which made it even all the more fun.

Milo enjoyed his birthday because his Aunt Jill was here for it. We planned for his birthday all week. Milo woke up in the morning to a little balloon hunt that his aunt did for him. Milo requested Round Rock Donuts for his birthday treat at school. As always, they gave us about a million donut holes. The kids loved them.

After school, Milo had his birthday party. He invited a few neighbor friends and a friend from school. It was a games party. We had them shoot darts at Star Wars characters to see how many points they could get. We had a box that had a ball inside. The object of the game was to bounce around to see how fast they could get the ball out of the box. We also had them throw balls from upstairs into boxes below to see how many balls they could get in the boxes. We also played wii for a little bit.

The best part of the party was the Darth Vader pinata we were able to find. The kids all got one shot at it and it had broken open. That was exciting!

To end the party, we had pizza, chocolate cake and ice cream. Milo got a lot of great gifts. He got some legos, and computer games and a few clothes. He had a great day!!

Holly enjoyed helping us put the candy into the pinata.

All the boys looking downstairs to see how the ball thrower was doing.

The view of the boxes downstairs.

Milo with his birthday cake!

Here’s Milo after he completed all of his birthday legos.

A few weeks ago, I got an invite for a poetry tea in Milo’s class. When we arrived today, we were greeted by Milo and were lead to sit at his desk. After the other parents arrived, each child read two poems. At the end the kids recited a poem as a class. After we had refreshments and drinks. Milo was suppose to get our drink first, then he could serve himself. It was nice experience. Holly even behaved herself. I have a little video of Milo’s second poem. I have attached a picture of it so you can see it too. It has a lot of extra noise and you can’t hear him well, but I hope you get the idea.

Milo’s aunt sent his some knuckle struts to build a motorcycle. He was very excited. After we got it built, he played with it a lot and drove it around. This is a fun little video of him showing off how the motorcycle goes.

A few weeks ago, Milo had to research and present on a desert animal. Milo’s animal was a desert iguana. We did some research, but realized that we needed to do a bit of it online. We were struggling to find information on the desert iguana, but we managed to find out most the stuff we needed. He made a poster to go with his presentation. Here’s a picture of his poster and then a video of him giving his presentation that morning before school. The video is cut off right before he finished because of an alarm on my phone….sorry! I hope you enjoy them.

This is the photo Milo’s teacher took of him and his poster.

A photo of Milo’s poster.

It says: Description 16 inches long, gray body with tan stripes, 4 feet, scales. It runs very fast with its feet. It eats plants. It likes flowers and especially creosote bushes. It is active day and night. It gets water from food and rain. Extra Facts: (1) It runs fastest on its back legs. (2) It’s predators are snakes and birds. (3) It lives in a burrow. The door is covered with sand when it is home. (4) It hibernates in the winter. (5) Fox and badgers eat its eggs.

Milo lost his first tooth on Thursday night. It had been loose for a few weeks. He had started pushing on it with his tongue and it had a bunch of canker sores on it. We felt that we needed to get the tooth out. Scott got it out without any problem. Milo was afraid that it would bleed a lot. It did some, but it was ok. All is well now.

The last day of school before Christmas break was Milo’s holiday party (as well as their Polar Express Day, hence why he is wearing pajamas). I had decided to help with the party. I arrived early to set up. It was a good thing I did as there weren’t many parents who could help. They were able to decorate cookies, have a snack, play bingo, and make a craft. I helped with the sugar cookie table. It was fun. After the party Milo and I walked home. It was a good day! Here are some pictures of Milo at his party.

At the beginning of October, Milo’s friend learned how to ride his bike. It took Milo a bit longer to overcome his fear. About a month ago, Milo was outside playing one Friday night and said to me “Mom, I want to ride my bike.” I had been talking to my neighbor about it earlier that day, and so we got his bike set up and he started riding. It didn’t take him long to get the hang of it. He loves riding his bike now and wants to do it all the time. Here’s a nice little video of Milo riding his bike on the first night.

Milo riding his bike!