Levi started piano in February. He rocks. My mom is his teacher, and usually recommends kids start at 6 or 7, but Levi, as I've said many times, is non-self entertaining. I mean, he really truly is non-self entertaining. And when the girls were napping, I would BEG him to play with toys by himself. And he couldn't. He'd yack and yack, and lay on his back and look at the ceiling, and I would get frustrated because I expected nap time to be productive time for me. And it wasn't happening. (In fact, as I write this post, he's doing Legos, and I kid you not he has not left me alone for 2 complete minutes). So I threw in the towel, and found something useful for us to do together - which is practice piano, and I absolutely love it, and he's learning so much. Every now and then (like today) I still insist on a little me-time, and he's back to yacking.
Levi also started school, which I've already talked about. But I wanted to talk just a little more to let you know I absolutely adore his school. I am so very, very impressed. Every time I'm at his school I stand in awe when his art teacher walks down the hall. I feel like I'm looking at a celebrity. I admire her so much. ALL the kids' art is fantastic. Levi's by no means an above-average artist, and look at this chalk cowboy! This was done in 45 amazing minutes as instructed by a very talented teacher who has neither a degree in art nor in teaching.
I cannot, however, get over the 7 hour time demands of first grade and on. So I am enjoying his time in Kindergarten, and I still have homeschool on the back of my mind for the future. I am glad I sent him, though, because 1. It's been a great experience for him, and 2. Even if I do homeschool, my motives for doing so will be very different. Basically it would ONLY be because school is too long. Love everything else about his school. What a dilemma I am in.
Jason taught Levi to ski this year. My friend told me about some bunny hills around that are free. We also took him night skiing to a resort where kids are free, and with a rope tied around him, he could do the blue squares. So fun to be out on the slopes with him. I am, however, completely afraid of heights. There is no activity I like more than skiing (although because of cost we don't go much), but I'm always a little afraid of the lift. And having Levi on the lift with me was all the much more nerve racking I told myself I would not be an overprotective mom like this. But here I am.
Levi also started gymnastics a couple months ago. Because gymnastics is expensive I was waiting to start him, until I felt he was at an age where if we waited any longer he couldn't catch up easily, and I thought 5 was probably it. Besides soccer (which is cheap and was not new this last year), and a semester of Kindermusik when he was a baby, these are the first lessons we have paid for for him (piano is free with my mom). I am realizing that kids get more expensive as they get older. I suppose if Levi loves gymnastics, he can do it for a long time. But the plan right now is to let it be a springboard (no pun intended) in gross-motor development into other sports, preferably basketball, according to Jason.
Happy birthday to my sweet, wonderful, everything to me little boy.
