The goods

Tonight, we were talking to John about his day. John had Amazing Athletes today. He told us, "We did running today." I asked him if he won any of the races. He said "No. I wasn't one of the goods. The goods kept winning. We didn't win because one of my team was slow. I don't know his name." He was so angry.  I asked him to name all the kids on the other team and then name all the kid on his team. He kept saying "There was one slow kid. I don't know his name. He's in the dinosaur class." Daddy ask him "Were you the slow on one your team?" John whipped his head around to face Daddy and said "What?!?! No!!"

Stretching and ice cream

John had Amazing Athletes today. At dinner tonight, we asked him to tell us about his day. He said "I had Amazing Athletes. First we stretched out!" This is the first time we heard about stretching, so Daddy asked him to tell us what kind of stretches they do. "Well, you know that there's one stretch you do all the time. When I said 'I don't know' (and he shrugged his shoulders) I was actually doing a stretch!" He shrugged his shoulders a couple times. Then he said "See! I'm stretching now! I'm stretching my shoulders!"

After Gillian finished dinner, I told her that she could pick out something for desert. She stood up in her chair and points across the room. She kept saying "I lick!" And pointed. Finally we had her get up and show us what she was pointing at. She got up and ran to the kitchen island and pulled out a box of ice cream cones. "I eat ice cream! I lick!" We didn't give her a cone, but she did have ice cream. She ate two bites and then started crying. She said "My teeth! My teeth hurt." Someone tried to eat her ice cream too quickly!

Amazing athletes take 2

John had Amazing Athletes today. He loves Amazing Athletes. It is the highlight of his week. I have to make sure that he wears sweat pants (or sweaty pants as he likes to call them) and his Amazing Athletes tee shirt. Today he got home and told me all about Amazing Athletes. "I got to teach other kids!" he said proudly. I was impressed and said you must be really good if the coach lets you teach. He replied "No. You just gotta be nice and ask!" I asked him what he taught the other kids. He put his arms out in front of him palms up. He then brought his arms in to his body. Basically pumping his arms up and down. He showed us this move and then asked "Do you know what this exercises? Your bicep! You need your biceps for pulling, picking stuff up and pulling? You use your biceps for a lot of stuff!"

Relay Races

John had Amazing Athletes today. When we asked him what he did today, he said "Running!" Running seemed a little lame compared to previous weeks where they did basketball, baseball and soccer. So Daddy said just running? He said "We did relay races!" I asked him if he had to tag the other people on his team. He said "No. We had to high five!" Later I was tucking him into bed and I asked him about the relay races. I said so you started with the running and then what. He said "First we did running, then we did frog hops. Then..." I asked what did you do next. He said "Come close. I don't want to scare you." I turned my ear to him an he whispered really low "We did bear crawls." I had him explain to me what a that meant. He explained "You put your hands and feet on the ground. Then you go really fast. You have to go fast because it's a relay race!"