This week, both schools are celebrating the week of the young child. Today was the culmination of the celebration, and at Peyton’s school, they had a jumpy house, face/body painting and ice cream. Brandon’s school had an art show and snacks that the kids made for the parents.
When I dropped Peyton off this morning, Miss Kristina told me that the jumpy house was going to be set up and Peyton’s class was going to be the first. They are the youngest eligible bouncers (the infant/toddler rooms aren’t eligible). I picked her up from school first, and got to hear all about her day. Usually she just responds to leading questions, but today, she offered what she had done. She was quite chatty from her school all the way to Brandon’s. Here are some snippets of what she said, “Today saw jumpy house. A man blowed it a big, huge castle. I jumping. I climbing. I play inside. I eat ice cream.” Oh, what flavor? “Chocolate. It’s melting.” Then she changed the subject, and said, “I saw Jazz-man last weekend? I never see it before?” We talked a little about Disneyland, then when we saw some of the high schoolers running cross country on the street. She said, “I see the boys running. It’s warm now.” She kept asking me, “Where are going?” I kept telling her we were going to Brandon’s school. I finally realized she kept asking because she doesn’t usually go from her school to his school. I travel that way all the time, but never with her in the car. We got to Brandon’s school, and he showed us all the artwork they had throughout the classroom. I also took her over to her classroom for next year to take a look around. She was happy to do that. The class had made rice krispy treats for the parents. I was a little hesitant to eat it, knowing that 60 pairs of 5 year old hands worked together to “create” the treats. I instead wanted a pre-made brownie. Brandon handed Peyton a treat, and she whispered, “Thank you, bruddah,” to him. Dave showed up about 5 minutes after I had gotten there. Both of us were wearing jeans, which is what Peyton was looking for when we let her walk around the classroom. The teachers had to guide her to us when she panicked a little when she couldn’t find us. At one point, she leaned up against Craig, Nico’s dad, thinking it was one of us. She only realized it wasn’t when she saw Dave standing in front of her, and me standing next to him. Craig was gracious in that he didn’t back away from her for fear of knocking her over. She slowly looked up at him while he was looking down at her, and she was mortified! She came over to me and buried her face in my leg. Poor thing. I think that happened to Brandon when he was little, but like everything, he laughed it off. Not poor Peyton.
We headed out to eat an early dinner, and when we got home, I asked Brandon if he wanted to go walking with me to return the movie I had rented last night. Always up for anything, and prolonging his day, he agreed. He thought I was taking the stroller. I told him he had to walk, and I didn’t want to hear whining. He still agreed, even though Dave didn’t think he’d do it. I asked Dave if he’d be a backup to call in the event Brandon broke down. Since he was about to give Peyton a bath, he declined, telling us she’d already be bathed and he didn’t want to take her out again. So we set out. All the way down our street and up the next, Brandon was counting. He got all the way to one hundred sixty something before wanting to do something else. We started to count by 5’s, and later by 10’s. Then he said he was done talking. I did keep a pretty good pace, and at one point, he did want to jog. We hit a patch of grass in front of the park, and I told him to jog there. That helped him take his mind off of the walk. He did a great job all the way there. There was still plenty of sun out. On the way back, he matter of fact told me that his side hurt. Two minutes later, he told me his other side hurt. That was the end of that. He didn’t say any more about it. I decided to play “Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.” That also helped him take his mind off things. I warned him he had to practice walking because at some point, he’s going to have to walk around D-land by himself since both were getting too big for the stroller. This was definitely good practice for that. We had a nice talk about him being able to ride his bike later. I told him, “You need to wear your helmet, your knee pads, elbow pads…” Brandon completed the sentence, “And my iPads.”
We got home, and I had taken my iPod with me, and clocked 2.61 miles, in 45 minutes. Much longer than the night before, when I stopped the iPod when I waited at the lights. Today, since I didn’t want to fiddle with the ipod (I didn’t listen to it, I just stuck it in my pocket to time us and keep track of mileage), it did take a lot longer.
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Here are some pictures 
