I enjoyed the warmth of the sun today. The weather can't decide if it's winter or Spring, but today it was Spring. Jonah went to Pre-school at the Wilcox's and took an Easter egg with lego inside. The kids had to shake it to try and guess the contents.
Meanwhile, Violet and I cleaned the kitchen with the Pandora "Mindy Gledhill" station booming to keep us moving. She wiggled to the beat on her barstool as she helped me chop red peppers for the stir fry we would have for dinner. Then we packed lunches for she and Jonah to eat on the way to Kangaroo Zoo to meet our friends for the afternoon. Jonah was happy after preschool.
Kangaroo Zoo was a hit. We met the Peterson's, the Foess' and the Jensen's there for a lunch.
Luke's first track meet of the season (last weeks was cancelled due to a snow storm) was at Westlake High School. Violet and Jonah and I were there to support him. Will was busy with chess club and scouts. He won Annie Peterson with 3 queens! And he just joined the Bear's den who apparantly do not have treats after den meeting, like they did in wolves. He said,"Sister Peterson and Sister Burdette were really good!" I think he misses them. But he will love the Bear den, even without the treats! Bridget had piano lessons. She plans to invite a friend to come home from school with her tomorrow. She continues to love playing capture the flag at school during free time (on top of recess). Mr Emett is giving them so many opportunities to get out and play that they are really enjoying his class, and probably learning well too. Today she and five other girls versed 3 of the boys in their class and beat them 7 - 0.
Back to the track meet. While Luke was in the bull pin waiting for his race Violet ran over to say hello. He stretched and she stretched with him. She is always ever so happy to see her Yuke. So Luke ran the mile. And he did it fabulously! We can't wait to find out his time tomorrow because he is confident he knocked some time off his 6:20 record. It was exciting to see him keep up with the first pack of runners. (He was not far behind a boy from his school that was quite a bit faster than him last year. It's so fun to see how the body grows and improves) He paced himself well and had a good finish. Jonah cheered his name the entire race, screaming, "Go Luke!" through the entire mile. I wish he had a megaphone so Luke could hear him all the way around the track. On the rest of the races that Luke was not competing in I told Jonah that we were cheering for the kids with the black jersey's on because they are from Luke's school. He said, "I can't cheer for them I don't even know their names." I told him he could call them Vista or Thunder. Soon I realized he was referring to them as "The Black's." At one point there were two Vista kids coming up the straitaway together in the 4X100 m relay and Jonah yelled, "Look, there's two blacks!" A boy from the Vista team who was seated nearby turned and commented on the racist comment, which I quickly explained.
