Delightfully literal... Also, bubble wrap!

I get such a kick out of maxs literal mind sometimes.  This morning, as we were doing our opening verse for circle time, there is a line that says "I jump to the light".  Now in true Waldorf style this opening verse is all about waking up and jumping to the light of a new day.. But I realized that when max does this he is very clearly looking at the ceiling lights in his playroom!   I find it so amusing that he doesn't even question whether or not this is what I meant.

School went pretty well today, although it is really hard to keep him focused.  He likes the songs and story time, and usually I can lead right into our morning project from there, but getting him back after any amount of free play time is difficult.  Although I did discover that if I just start setting up the morning art project he eventually gets interested and has to know what I am doing.  I think this May be the approach to take going forward.

Our seeds, plants and vegetables week is going well, we made an alfalfa seed sprouting jar and hand print tulips.

Here are pictures of both the alfalfa seeds and our tulips:

I hope tomorrow to help him set up one of our aero gardens to grow some flowers.  The only problem with this theme is the results of our projects won't be seen for a few days to a week.  I am hoping this will come through as a lesson in delayed gratification, once he realizes there are results!

In other news, I've decided that I should probably find some bubble wrap and just wrap myself up in it for the next couple of days.  In addition to my neck still being very painful from whatever the heck I did to it the other night, I managed to kneel on one of maxs metal trains this morning (ouch) and then I smacked that same knee on the kitchen table at lunch (double ouch), then a couple of minutes later stubbed my toe on the coffee table (triple ouch) and THEN as we were leaving for whole children I smacked my hand on the doorway (ouch four times!).   So, like I said, bubble wrap!