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Monday, March 30, 2009

A Screening, Sheep and Rockets

Friday was my older son's kindergarten screening. When did I get old enough to have a kindergartner? At this rate, my nursing home screening is right around the corner.

The Big Giraffe took OS to his appointment where he was give an explanation sheet of the screening that once again stressed that was not an intelligence test. There must be a lot of confusion over this because that's about the millioneth time we had heard it. Apparently they do the screening to make sure there are not an undiagnosed disabilities. If your child has a problem they contact you for further screening. OS was in a happy mood and proudly introduced himself to the woman giving the screening. Then off he went. He must have confused it with a screening for the CIA because all I got out of him was that "birds fly: fish swim".

I did the reasonable thing and emailed a friend of mine whose daughter is in the class. As long as I asked OS specifically about the tasks that I knew he did from his friend, he answered my questions. It was definitely on a need to know basis though. Let's help that this attitude gets better before his teenage years or at the very least doesn't get worse!

Saturday we went to this awesome one day event called Woolapolooza. I got to witness a sheep being sheared for the first time. I've been amazed at the number of people who seem to think that Chicago is filled with farms. Really and truly, this is the first time I ever saw a sheep being sheared. No, I did not grow up on a farm. We got to watch a sheep herding demo with border collies and we got to see how the wool gets turned into yarn. It was a lot of fun. The best part was definitely though seeing a lamb born. We just happened to be there when it happened. The boys were a lot more interested in the beach towels that were used to dry off the lamb.

On Sunday we went to a one day space exhibit at the New England Air Museum. Normally the Giraffe family does not have intentionally jammed packed weekends like this but again these were one day only events. OS is very into space these days so he really wanted to go and...well no suprise here...Woolapolooza was for me. The boys got to try on real NASA space suits. They also got to hold a meteorite as well as a moon rock. OS got to do a "lab" on identifiying moon rocks which he enjoyed. By far both of their favorite parts was the plane simulator that they got to ride. I was actually pleased when they told me that since we waited an hour in line. I think possibly the longest hour of my life I might add! At first OS told me that his favorite part was the gift shop but then he quickly changed his mind. Perhaps it was the look on my face.

How can I forget the most important part? I saw Twilight on Thursday night and then both the Big Giraffe and I watched it on Sunday. It was truly terrible and I thought it was fantastic!

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 2:19 PM   2 comments
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  • At 3/30/2009 7:46 PM, Blogger lisa said…

    Hey, I can fill ya in on what they do at screening. i preformed probably a hundred of them, so I can tell ya what he was asked to do. :) We will chat on Friday! Hugs!! Lisa

     

  • At 4/01/2009 3:02 AM, Blogger Goofball said…

    Pssst....I gave you an award!

     
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