building stuff

When I picked Jack up at school, he was happy, and clinging on to his friend Dylan, with whom he wanted to have a playdate. I said sure, but Dylan was being picked up by somebody other than his Mom, so it didn't happen.

Jack ran around the playground a little. At one point I lost sight of him, for several minutes. Then I spotted him: he was hiding, from me, behind the basketball hoop. Yes, he's kind of thin. He stepped out and made a big show of laughing it up. I decided to let him have his fun, this time, not letting on that I had begun to get worried.

I let him help me build a second desk for my office today. It was a fairly standard, Target-sold thing, which required only a couple of screwdrivers and some precision, but he enjoyed it, and we didn't break the thing. I let him turn the big screws, and put in the pieces with a "J" sticker on them, much to his delight.

At night, he colored in the Charlie and Lola coloring book either he or Kate had received for Christmas (Kate I believe). He drew a happy picture of himself, an alien with eight eyes, and an elephant (spelled elefunt, heh). He drew faces of different expressions, doing quite a nice job with "cross," and "embarrassed."

He told Emily with some degree of dismay that he has a lot of work in kindergarten, because he's smarter than other kids. We're looking into that one. It seems a little early to feel overworked.

Gave Kate her bath tonight. She freaked out at a small piece of soap in the water. That was a new one. I knew she didn't like bugs and the like, but pieces of soap? I held it in my hand to show her it wasn't hurting me. She looked at me doubtfully. She'd settled down at bedtime, for Smiley Shark and Swing on a Star. Fortunately.