What's gonna work? Team work...

Gage was helping me in the kitchen recently. You have to love the title of this post. It's from the ever-popular theme song from the "Wonder Pets" in case you're clueless. We borrow it around our house from time to time when we want to emphasize that team work works best. Along those lines it was funny to hear Gavin the other day after he had successfully zipped up a bag by himself: "See, Mom, I don't need team work." I'm sure that every parent thinks this about their child, but we really do think that Gavin is a very bright guy. He pointed out to me tonight that the shadow from his door was in the shape of a rectangle. Wow! We've decided not to send him to preschool this year, though, seeing as though he probably still has three years at home with me before we'll send him to kindergarten. (Endearing, might I add, that Gavin said that he didn't want to go to "school" this year because he would miss me tooooo much.) I am going to do some more structured school activities with him at home this year, and I was so excited to find a bunch of great stuff at Target today to get us started. My struggle will be the planning and structure that is required, both of which were challenging to me as a teacher too, but hopefully we'll have fun doing it and I'll figure out how to capitalize on some of Gage's morning nap times to get it done.