Gym Class, Monkeys and Candy, Oh My!!

This morning was quite a busy one! Eli's school had their annual Halloween Parade and school party today, so Eli needed to wear his costume (a monkey) to class. I got him dressed and he told me he didn't want breakfast because "Monkeys no eat Cheerios." Nice. Later he told me on Halloween he gets to eat candy. When I told him that can't be: monkeys don't eat candy, he realized had some back-peddling to do, but he seemed quite convinced in his own mind that monkeys eat candy (but not Cheerios). After I dropped Eli off at school, Grandma and I took Maddux to her weekly gym class. She was her usual monkey self, climbing over all of the mats and apparatuses. She has really come to love the balance beam; she walks on it at least twice each class. Maddie's favorite part of class is still ball time. She loves to throw and kick all of the balls, but what she loves even more is putting them back into the trash can at the end.

Maddux Gym Class from Lehr Eliason on Vimeo.

We rushed from Maddux's class to Eli's school so we could be there for the Halloween Party. It turns out there was a birthday party to celebrate in Eli's class today also, so sugar was everywhere. I decided to hang up my sugar-police hat for the 30-minutes we were there and let Eli have what all of the other kids got. My son must have realized he had a small window because the amount he consumed in that half hour was impressive: one Capri Sun, one LARGE (even by adult standards) piece of cake with layer icing, two chocolate chip cookies, two chocolate bon-bon-type candies and two minutes of sucking on a Tootsie Roll pop sucker. Yikes! He had a blast though. He and his friends were trick-or-treating with all of the other classes in the Fellowship Hall when we got there. We didn't see Eli at first, but finally we spotted him and his buddy, Sanjit, in the corner, just hanging out. Once they were done, we walked back to their class for their own party. Maddux even got in on the fun, sitting in one of the empty chairs and eating a little bit of cake.