This week Library Day was full of surprises! Both the boys reached two more goals on their summer reading logs and got little prizes for that, and then Pace officially finished his 1000 books before kindergarten! He got his photo taken to go on the board, and an extra prize (a little book and pencil). Max finished 500 books on his 1000 books before kindergarten list, so he got a halfway prize, too (a little book and crayons).
After reading time we discovered the Food Bank handing out free lunches on the field behind the library! Free lunches all summer long--that'll probably become part of our Wednesday routine! Pace rides his bike to the library and home again, about 4.5 miles total, and gets pretty hungry!
I thought reading 1000 books before kindergarten merited more than just a little book and a pencil, so we found a few more surprises for Pace. We were getting some copies of keys done, and the key store doubled as a rockhounding/prospector store! Pace's eyes grew as large as saucers as he saw geodes, crystals, trilobites, rocks, and books! We picked out two books for Pace and the "Utah Rockhounder's Guide" for Daddy for Father's Day so the boys can enjoy more adventures together!
For reading 500 books, I ordered Max a Little Blue trumpet. I'm not sure where or when this fascination began, I think from a book he has about colors. There's a picture of a blue trumpet, and he has been begging for one, and tells me he dreams about getting one--this has been going on for at least 6 months, if not longer. So I decided it was high time for that little blue trumpet and Max to be united!
Ok, so I ordered Max a little blue trumpet, and it was a bust. At first he was happy, because it was blue. Then he started playing it, and the buttons didn't play different notes, and it sounded like a harmonica, not a trumpet (and Max knows the difference), and so he was very dissatisfied, saying it was a "Baby Trumpet."
So. Round 2. The next set of instruments weren't blue, but in order to find instruments that played different notes, we had to go sliver. Max was very happy once he started playing and his fingers pushed buttons and different notes came out! He's been practicing and can do a little 4-finger scale. He keeps saying he wants to play a trumpet when he grows up, and I hope that sticks! We might be in for a trumpet morning call!
In addition to being an aspiring trumpet-ist, Max is very engineer-minded. He loves examining the nuts and bolts of toys, kitchen gadgets, electrical stuff, etc. So his new instruments got the full examination treatment, a la flashlight.
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