The Tater Tot Update: Harrison update

All is good here, although it sure seems like there is literally not a minute of downtime to be found. Now that Harrison is not napping anymore my blogging time has been negatively impacted, along with many other aspects of my day. The upside is that we get to spend a few moments together uninterrupted by anyone else and I really enjoy just listening to him talk when it's just the two of us.

Harrison started preschool at a new school this year. He is now going three days a week (9am to 1pm) and really seems to love it there. They have "Fun and Fitness" and visit the library on Monday. On Wednesday they start with chapel and also have music. Friday is special because they have pizza for lunch.

He loves his school friends and gets so excited to see them. Some days he tells me that he doesn't want to go to school, but when we get out of the car and he sees a classmate, he will RUN full speed to catch that person and yell at them excitedly the whole way there. He talks about his friends each day when we recount his day at school over family dinner ("let's talk about my day" he will yell if we aren't paying attention to him) and likes to tell us what he did and did not like that day. It is so incredibly different than when he was in school last year and couldn't even remember what I packed him for lunch that day.

He seems to get along quite well with a few of the girls. When I ask him who he played with outside, he will frequently cite one of three girl names (usually all three are mentioned) and tell me he played tag with them. He also mentions several of the boys, and talks about who he sat next to at lunch or chapel. The other day he told us he sat with "all the boys" at lunch and the girls sat at a different table. They get to choose where they sit, and I know it doesn't always end up this way, but apparently today it did.

There was an ice cream social on the playground in late September for his school. About half of his class attended. At one point he was joining up with a group of his "school friends" as he calls them and getting on the tire swing. Three of the girls fought over who would get to sit next to him! It was hilarious to see this, and really just opened my eyes to what life might be like years from now. These are the three girls he mentions playing with all the time, so apparently they do all have some sort of little connection.

Towards the end of September they studied a "farm unit" and learning about animals, food, planting, etc. One Friday "Farmer Fry" brought his baby animals to school for the three-year-olds to see. Harrison couldn't have been happier! Barrett got to see the animals on the way out after we dropped off Harrison so it was a win for everyone.

After that it was fire safety, and a couple of weeks ago the fire truck came to his school and they all got to explore it and meet the fire fighters.

In mid-October they had Fall Fest at his school, which was a lot of age-appropriate carnival games where everyone got to win a small prize at each one. They had pony rides, bounce houses, face painting, etc. He had a wonderful time and loved playing with all of his friends. It's fun see him make friends and be so excited to see them and play with them. The downside is that now when we are home playing with just him, me and Barrett in the afternoon he wants more friends to come play. Hopefully soon he and Barrett will have enough fun that won't be an issue.

We spend a lot of time in the afternoons playing outside. Harrison's favorite thing to do is drive his monster truck around the cul-de-sac. He is really good at it and has a lot of fun. He is also getting quite good at Frisbee and we've had a good time playing that lately.

He is VERY excited about Halloween and keeps asking when the actual day is. He loves to see all of the decorations people have put out, and begged for a few for our house. We now have a spider web that lights up and another large spider. He has requested some ghosts, a skeleton and more giant spiders so I'll have to see what I can find. In early October we were at Target and hit the Halloween aisle. Man that kid was excited!!