The elementary school rumor mill

Simon: So, you know what I heard today?
Me: what?
Simon: There's a kid, he's not in my class, but he's in Ms. Gorta's class, and he can count all the way to infinity.

And so it begins...

Simon got his ID number today for the Montgomery County School District of which he is now a full-fledged member. Here he proudly displays his Kindercard on the way out the door of his first day of what will presumably be a 13-year relationship with said public school system.

He had a very good day--let's hope this bodes well!

it's not easy going Green

We're in the car this morning, Jay & Simon are dropping me off at the Metro on the way to dropping Simon off at preschool.

Me: We're only going to do this 3 more times after this! After that it's all walking for me.
Simon: And we'll walk to the bus stop!
Me: Yup. We'll all be walking. That's good for us.
Simon: Yes, it's good exercise.

[extremely long pause.]

Simon [in a slightly worried voice]: But we'll still have the car, right?

couldn't have said it better myself

Yesterday, when I picked Simon up at preschool, his teachers were talking about how much they're going to miss him. When we stepped into the hallway, Simon whispered into my ear conspiratorily:
"Even when I go to kindergarten, I'm still never going to forget this school."

Well, I *am* from Wisconsin...

We read this morning about the cheese carving contest at the Montgomery County Fair. The newspaper says that the entries will be located in the Butter House (on the fairgrounds) for visitors to check out.

Simon: Well, we don't need to go see that, we have plenty of butter and cheese right here at our house!

Duh, I should have guessed

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — We stopped for dessert after dinner on our last night in Delaware, and Simon chose a scoop of "rainbow ice-cream." It was red, yellow, blue and green. (Unfortunately, this meal went undocumented — the above picture is from a different ice-cream outing on the vacation.)

Uncle David: "Ooooh, Rainbow ice-cream. That looks neat. What does it taste like?"
Simon: "Basically, it tastes like rainbows."

olden times

Simon [holding a plastic bag]: Do I throw this away or recycle?
Me: throw it away.
Me [marveling]: Did you know that we never asked that question when we were your age? There was no such thing as recycling.

Simon: was there garbage?
Me: Yes.
Simon: was there newspapers?
Me: Yes.
Simon: Was there school?
Me: Yes.
Simon: Ok. So there was everything in the world except recycling.