Check in time

Sarah's favorite things right now:

Color - pink and purple
TV Show - Scooby-Doo
Food - Hot Dogs, Macaroni & Cheese, Peanut Butter
Time of Day - All day!
Book - She can't decide, she likes so many.
Friend - Jamie
Place to go/play - The "Dragon" park
Outfit - a dress or a skirt & shirt and her new ruby slippers
Toy - Whatever Cloosty wants/has.

Frist day of Kindergarten

Today is Sarah's first day of Kindergarten! Oh sure, she's been at school for a couple of years now, but this is public school - it's bigger and with a lot more kids.

Both Pete and I dropped her off, staying to help her get her breakfast and find the library afterwards. In order to "pay" for breakfast and lunch, she needs to punch in her PIN at the cash register. I'm pretty sure she'll be able to remember her 5 digit number soon enough. I've already committed it to memory. Funny, with all the stuff I haven't been able to remember lately, numbers have always been easy to recall... and I digress.

At the breakfast table, we met one of Sarah's friends from Montessori who's been at Shades Mountain for a year. Molly sat down and said, "I can't believe you're here!" All the children in the lunchroom seemed to be well behaved. Some were old hats and some were brand new like Sarah - you can always spot those due to the cautious and somewhat frightened or confused looks on their faces.

After eating we went to the library where they were rounding up the Kindergarteners. There we saw another of Sarah's Montessori friends, Jamie. She had the biggest grin on her face. Jamie gave me a hug and I asked her if she was excited. All she could do was nod emphatically - heh. Sarah's teacher pinned a name tag on her shirt and asked a few questions. Pete went out to his car to get Sarah's nap roll while I gave her hugs and kisses quickly before the principal shooed all the parents out. They really do know how to corrall the parents. I'm surpirsed they don't have a bull horn at ready to shout "Parents get out now!"

*sniffle* I know she's going to do great, be great and have fun! She'll be the queen of the class, make a lot of new friends and be super at everything she does. I just can't believe that she's growing up so quickly!

I can't wait to ask her what she did today. :D

Not very frugal

Yesterday evening Sarah informed me that she wanted pizza for dinner. This is almost a weekly ritual for her, especially on the days when I don't cook because we're having left-overs. However, left-overs to Sarah means that she can have anything she wants, not what we had the night before.

Anyway, we were having the "I want pizza" discussion on the way home. It was left-over night and I thought she might say she wanted a hot dog or McDonald's (barforama - very rarely do we get fast food anymore), but she piped up with "Pizza!" Naturally Cloosty joined in with his "peetsa!" Man! I didn't feel like pizza - I'm tired of pizza. Just the smell turns my stomach these days.

Me: I don't want pizza.
Sarah: I do, Mommy!
Me: I don't want to get it.
Sarah: Call Daddy. He can bring it home!

I tried getting a hold of Pedro, but he was in a meeting. Crap.

Me: He's not answering.
Sarah: Leave him a medjage.
Me: You mean a messsssage?
Sarah: Yeah, leave him a meshage.
Me: He'll be home too late.
Sarah: We can stop and get it (meaning Little Caesar's $5 pizza).
Me: I don't want to get out of the car, get you guys out, go in, carry everything back in the car and go home.
Sarah: Then we can order one.
Me: That's expensive.
Sarah: I'll buy it. I have lots of money.
Me: I'm not going to let you waste your money on pizza.
Sarah: But I want to waste my money!

ROFL! I tried to explain to her what "wasting your money" means, but I don't think she quite got it. Needless to say that I ordered a pizza at three times what it would have cost to go to Little Caesar's. Hmmm, was it convenience of online ordering or laziness? I'm going to say that I wasn't feeling very good. I ate asparagus, squash and zuchinni for dinner while the kids chowed down on pizza. And I didn't let Sarah waste her money - I wasted mine instead. Not a very good example, am I?

Bah.