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Yesterday Porter told me that his friend at preschool says free when she counts. "you know one, two, free" He looked at me all disgusted and said "free, like no money".
Funny he should notice since his TH sound comes out like S. "one, two, sssree". He is working on it though, we have been practicing TH, R, and L. His vocabulary truly has always been ahead of his peers. He often reminds me of UH-HUH from the little rascals. "Actually, I've always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them."

What Were We Waiting For???

After graduation Burk and I told Porter it was his day we could do whatever he wanted.
No hesitation, he wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese. He had been wanting to go for months but neither Burk or I wanted to subject ourselves to what we were sure was CEC Hell. It was a freaking BLAST!!!!! Burk had taken the afternoon off for graduation and we hadn't spent much family time together because Burk has been working his butt off, around a million hours a week. So it may just have been that it was some really needed time but we were super impressed. We ate before we went so we didn't have to buy pizza or anything, but we played and entertained all three of us for 4 hours on $15. They have a super cool bowling game that intrigued both my boys. And I was obsessed with the picture sketch machine, and ID maker. (you kn0w me and pictures). We won 560 tickets. When we went to turn them in I asked the kid how many tickets we needed for this huge baseball and he said it was 1500. He asked if that is what Porter was wanting I told him yes and he said "we have a ton of those, he can have it". Porter was ecstatic. It was the best day we have had in a long, long time. I am not sure if we will go back a lot now and risk tainting it, or if it will just have to go down as one of the greatest memories in the history of our lives. :)

Preschool Graduation

Preschool Graduation or advancement for Porter who is only three (but don't tell him that) was on Friday May 22nd. Porter was so excited. He had been talking about Graduation Day since around October. Preschool started in September. It started with a flag ceremony and the pledge, then they sang a few songs, they each had a little speaking part from a poem, the presentation of the Graduates, and then some refreshments. His teacher, Mrs. Tonja made a little slide show with pictures of things they had done through the year set to music. I bawled. (damn this being hormonal and pregnant). It was a good day.

Porter receiving his certificate of "one year completion" from Mrs. TonjaSinging down on Grandpa's farm.
Porter first had his "fat pink pig" turned the wrong way but some lady on the front row told him to turn it around. Porter ans his cousin Aleksa.
She will be going to kindergarten but I am glad they got one year of preschool together first.
Porter and Caleb after refreshments.
When Porter started daycare at Tonja's, Caleb had a bit of an identity crisis as his last name is Porter. He kept asking Tonja what Porter's first name was. Was it Ryan (his brother) or what? Tonja explained it to him a couple times and finally Caleb said "I guess we'll just call him Jeff". (his dad's name) But soon enough he figured it out and they have been good buddies ever since.

Our new toy

We just got a new tiny kodak flip camcorder. We thought it would be a fun little useful thing. It takes an SD card which will fit in Sammy's camera so he and Porter can send video's back and forth and we thought it would be fun when Rebb comes as well so we can take little videos of him. It is super user friendly and was not to bad on the pocketbook. Anyhow, here is our very first video. ENJOY.

Dandelions

Last week on one of the good weather days, when I got to daycare to pick up Porter all the kids and Tonja were out playing in the yard. As soon as I got out of the car Porter ran over to me and said "mommy I picked all these for you". He stood there with a handful of the most beautiful weeds I have ever seen. I love this kid more than I ever thought possible. :)

Long stem roses are sooooooooooooo overrated.