This Post Brought to You by the Letter A and the Colors Blue and Orange

I took the boys to preschool and picked them up for the first time in a while. Eric's been the one doing preschool duty lately. It's a little stressful taking the boys to school in the morning because they don't exactly leap out of bed. However, most days the pick-up time is very enjoyable. (Of course there are few temper tantrums thrown into the mix to make us stay humble in front of the employees and other parents.) I try to take pictures of the boys' art work and projects for posterity, so here are today's pictures.

They are doing an "All about me" unit. A few days ago they were asked what makes them special. Aiden said, "I don't know?" He tends to ask 5 million questions when we read books and sometimes I have to resort to saying "I don't know," because my answers don't seem to completely satisfy his curiosity. I also try to remember to ask him what he thinks and he has some pretty good insight. Any way, I guess I wasn't too surprised by his answer. Since hearing about this display from Eric, I've been trying to point out reasons the boys are special.

Reid's answer: "I'm special because... when I fall down and have boo boos I get band-aids." He has gone through a few band-aids lately, so this answer fits well.

They are also studying the letter A. I love the pictures of them working on their crafts.

They made mini me art:

Reid has that scowl on his face from time to time and it looks like Aiden might have glasses drawn around his eyes:

And life-size me art:

Reid's answers:

Favorite color: Blue and orange (Go, Broncos!)

Favorite food: Crackers (One of Daddy's favorites too.)

What makes me happy? Daddy! (So true. He loves his daddy.)

Aiden's answers:

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite food: Mommy's food (I don't think it's my cooking. I think he literally means the food from my plate, which he does like to mooch.)

What makes me happy? Trucks! (Also very true.)

Apple art by the apples of my eye. A couple of lefties? The jury's still out, but it looks like they're using their left hands in most of these pictures.

The name tags on their table spots. They're assigned to two different tables.

Reid took this picture of me and Aiden after I was done taking pictures of their artwork. Probably for the best that it's blurry, because Friday-evening-Keri usually looks like she was run over by a bus.

I can't remember if I posted last month's sports themed artwork or not, so here you go.

First, a picture of their classroom:

Trying on some of the dress-up hats:

Favorite sports plus decorated soccer balls:
Reid: "Basketball" (He also really enjoys playing soccer and baseball with Eric. I just bought them new size 3 "real" soccer balls since their foam ones are falling apart. The boys were very excited to get them. Reid said, "This is for me, Mom? This is for me?!!!!)
Aiden: "Power Rangers" (Miss Shannon said she asked Aiden his favorite sport a few times and he was insistent that this was his favorite sport. He does enjoy pretending to be a Power Ranger, so I can see where he's coming from.)

I think all these crafts are so creative!

They decorated jerseys:

This was the welcome sign I previously posted, plus their pictures added:

The boys have been requesting "Twinkle, Twinkle Traffic Light" for one of their bedtime songs, but Eric and I don't know the words and the boys kept forgetting them. Finally tonight I was taught the entire song:
"Twinkle, twinkle traffic light,
on the corner shining bright.
Red means STOP!
Green means GO!
Yellow means slow,
yellow means slow.
Twinkle, twinkle traffic light,
on the corner shining bright."

Finally, a random addition from my dad's favorite calendar:

The boys decided they wanted to practice using the potty by themselves after we went to bed. When I heard the first toilet flush and went to check, they told me to go back to bed. That's fine with me. I've since heard it flush two more times and I don't have triplets, so I'm not sure who went twice. We'll see what happens during the middle of the night. I also encouraged them to sleep in tomorrow morning but I'm sure I'll end up with a surprise face to face encounter with Reid bright and early which means I better get some sleep. Good night! As the boys told me tonight, "Don't let the beds bite!" (Yes, they left out "bugs".)