ABBA

David and I went to see Mamma Mia a couple weeks ago at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. It was a LOT of fun and I came home and bought an ABBA greatest hits CD right away. We've been listening to it a lot in the car and Thomas loves it. His favorite song is Mamma Mia and he also loves Take A Chance On Me. I just love hearing him sing, "Honey, I'm still free. Take a chance on me." and "Mamma Mia, here I go again. My, my, how can I resist ya?" I know I can't. :-)

Mr. Phonics

I've tried over the years to use phonics to teach Thomas. That never interested him. But now he's Mr. Phonics. Between school and a new Leapfrog Word Factory DVD that he loves, he's now crazy about phonics. Every word he says is enunciated like this: "C-c-c-c-a-a-a-t-t-t-t, C-A-T spells cat Mommy!" or "P-p-p-p-pizza, Mommy, pizza starts with P!" It's pretty cute.

We LOVE Kindergarten!

Every day when I pick Thomas up from school, I ask, "How was your day sweetie?" And every day he answers the same, "Awesome!" That statement combined with his other frequent, enthusiastic comment, "Mommy, Kindergarten is even more fun than I thought it was going to be!" help us know that we made the right decision concerning his school.

First Homework

Thomas got his first homework assignment yesterday. It was a questionnaire titled All About Me. Things like, when is your birthday, who's in your family, what's your favorite TV show, etc. As we sat down yesterday afternoon to do it, Thomas looked at me and said, "Mommy, when am I going to get homework where I do all the work? Big kids have homework like that you know." I told him he could write the answers on his paper if he wanted to and I'd tell him how to spell it all. He decided that was too much writing and that I could do it this time. I'm glad he's excited about homework and am definitely NOT going to burst his bubble about how much homework he's going to have in his lifetime and that it may not all be fun.