Time to feed the dinosaur!

Maybe Brantley will grow up to be a paleontologist. He loves dinosaurs and learning about them. We watch all of the Walking with Dinosaurs and Dinosaur planet shows. I've even learned a lot about them, especially how to pronouce a lot of the names like Troodon, Coelophysis, and Spinosaurus. The shows are really good. They take footage of actual scenery and then put in computer generated dinosaurs. I have to say they look extremely real.

Time for T-ball!

T-ball is starting again. Last year Brantley was on the Red Sox. This year...the Dodgers. They changed the age cutoff for this year. Last year, he was considered a 4 so he was in the 4/5 T-ball league. That league was for 4s and 5s that hadn't played before. 5s that had played before went on to the 5/6 league, which is where Brantley would be this year if they hadn't changed the cutoff. Since they changed it, he's considered a 4 again. But, he's a 4 that has played before. Oh well, I wasn't very comfortable with him going to the 5/6 league yet anyway. He's going to have the same coach as last year so we know at least 1 other kid will have played before. Wonder how many of his team last year will be on the team this year. Guess we will find out in a couple of weeks.

Our new chair...Brantley's favorite color!

Doesn't it look comfortable!

More Snow!

Snow two weekends in a row! That's rare here. And man it's cold! Brantley got to enjoy a little time playing in the snow this morning. Just ask him what 26 degrees feels like. It's freezing out there. Better come in and warm up.

Be my Valentine!

Here's Brant's valentine. Isn't she a cutie!

Finally...SNOW!

A Special Valentine

Brantley said he made me a valentine this morning. I went into his room to get his clothes and I found this. Notice anything about it? - and, no, the picture is not transposed.

Reading?

Tonight we worked on Brantley's valentine cards for his party on Tuesday. We got scooby doo cards and Garfield lollipops to put in them. We were attempting to have Brant write the names. He did okay but it just wasn't working out so I wrote them. We had his class list on a piece of paper. Brantley pointed at one of the names and said is that Olivia. I told him it was. Then I started pointing at other names and asking him who they were. He knew them all. I know he wasn't really reading, only recognizing the way the letters were arranged, but it's a start and I was impressed!