Hello everyone! Now I know that this post is rather late but remember our hectic schedules? We are getting down to the last couple weeks of the semester, so it has been nothing but papers, papers and more papers.
So the elections were amazing! The outcome was phenomenal and of course Collin surprised me once again. Let me give you some background info. In the morning while we are getting ready for the day, we always watch The Today Show because if we watched cartoons we would never leave the house. So of course everyday leading up to the election Today would always discuss about the election and whatever new controversy has come up. Every so often would Collin say, "Mommy look, it is Barack Obama!" Sure enough it was him on the screen.
Then came election day. We all got up extra early so we could be in line by 7:20am. When we got there Collin again had another question, "Mommy, why are we here? What are all these people doing here?" So I went into the explanation of the fact that we were voting for the next president and so on. Of course he chimes in "Barack Obama right mommy." Now I know everyone knows the rule of no election pooling withing 100ft of the building, so as soon as he said Obama and not very quietly, the people around us kind of turned around and realize that this little boy was talking about our next potential president.
So when we finally went in, voted, got our stickers and were on our way out Collin asked, "Mommy why are we leaving?" I told him that we were done voting and it was time to go to school. Then he said, "Then Barack Obama won right?" I could not help but laugh because he thought the voting process was that fast, so I explained to him that we would find out by late that night or maybe not until the next day.
We woke up the next day, and I already knew that Barack Obama won because I watched the amazing speech he gave. So when Collin's alarm went off, he came into our room i told him, "Guess what? Barack Obama won, he is going to be our next president.!" With his reaction you think he just woke up on Christmas morning. He screamed and was so excited about Obama being our next president.
On our way to work and school I decided that I wanted to get the newspaper for I could save it for the years to come. When bought both papers Collin said he wanted to look at them. I told him that it would be okay but that we had to wait until we got to the preschool. When we arrived I set him at a table with both papers and he continued to read the paper like a grown up.
So when I finally got the camera ready he moved from the front page of Barack Obama to the back page which were the comics. Nevertheless he was reading the paper like he could read and understand what it was saying.
I love this picture because he gave me this look like why are you watching me read the paper or more like do not read over my shoulder. Our son the 4 yr old going on 20.
with much love
Veronica and Jed
This past Friday, Collin started the final session of golf before they stop because of the holidays and new year. The weeks lesson was learning how to properly introduce yourself so you can meet someone new the right way. In the two pictures above you see Collin introducing himself to Jed. (Jed is a volunteer at the first tee and sometimes teaches the classes throughout the week). In the picture where he is taking a knee they were discussing about the exercise they just completed. They had to run up the hill, introduce themselves to their instructor with the proper handshake and eye contact.
Then they were able to decide on two options: practice putting on the putting greens or go see a real golf hole. Now I know that the second one does not sound too appealing, but some of these kids have never been on a real golf hole. Not Collin of course, so of course he was going for the putting greens. 
