Jack and I went blueberry picking a couple of Saturdays ago. It was a nice cloudy day with a threat of rain so there were only a few other people at the farm. Jack turned out to be good at picking ripe blueberries, so the bucket filled up quickly, minus a few free samples.
Derrick and Jack did a great job of eating the blueberries so, "What are we going to do with all these blueberries?" quickly became, "Wait, there aren't any blueberries left?"
About two weeks after Wells, we went back up to Maine for the annual family weekend. I think this was the first year that Jack didn't have a meltdown at some point on the way which is a nice milestone.
Around Fourth of July we took five days and went to Wells, Maine for a vacation.
Jack wasn't feeling well the day before we left, but we thought we would go anyway and take it easy on day one. See sample photo for how most of day one was spent.
Day two we had a great morning/afternoon at the beach. When we got back, Jack started complaining of stomach pain again and went to bed early.
Day three, I will spare the details but note the bucket and towel.
Jack was still complaining of stomach pains.
Due to Jack's consistent (four day) complaining of serious stomach pains, we thought something else might be going on, so we took him to the local urgent care center, who then referred us to Maine Med, so off to Portland we went. A vacation adventure!
Very long story short, it seems Jack had a serious virus that just wouldn't quit. We'd never seen him this sick before, so took some perhaps excessive precautions.
In typical Jack fashion, he started showing signs of feeling better at the hospital and ate a popsicle, and multiple packages of graham crackers and saltines. Jack was also happy to get to watch some of the Spongebob Movie at the hospital and later stated this being one of the highlights of the whole trip. Sigh...
Day four, we met up with Grampy and Gail who were camping not too far away.
Jack enjoyed trying to fish, a canoe ride, winning two rounds (and all the chocolate) of Left, Right, Center, and playing with the excavator at the playground.
Day five we went out for breakfast to Congdon's doughnuts. I cannot recommend their doughnuts, but the rest of breakfast was good. Jack built a jelly tower to pass the time.
Jack enjoyed his chocolate chip pancakes.
After breakfast we went to a local arcade where Jack enjoyed playing a 2017 version of Space Invaders. A nice couple donated a bunch of their tickets to us at the prize counter, so Jack was able to get a bunch of silly prizes.
Let the record show this prize was Dad's idea.
After the arcade, we headed home as Mom and Dad had had enough of "vacation."
Today was Jack's last day of Pre-K. He does not usually attend school on Fridays, but the school traditionally does an end of year show the last two days of school and it was much easier for Derrick and I to go today and see the show, and Jack was happy to participate both mornings. The show was 101 Dalmatians and Jack's class got to be cats. They all sang a song and did some choreographed moves with it. Jack's teachers Julie and Ann Marie knitted hats, tails, and bowties for all the kids and they definitely had the best costumes in the play (except maybe Cruella DeVil).
After the play we got to see the 8th grade graduation ceremony, and it was very nice to see the connection the kids who had been there since being little had with the administration, teachers, and younger students. Then we went over to Kane's for a celebratory donut. "Because it is a special day," Jack said.
A dark, grainy photo of Jack on stage, third in from the right.
Jack reluctantly put his costume back on after the play so we could take pictures.
Chocolate honeydip at Kane's.
We played outside upon returning home.
Apparently Jack has matured so much in his time in Pre-K
he thinks black socks with sandals is a good look.
Jack is going to be attending "camp" at school over the summer three days per week. He will get to go on field trips, work on fun projects, and go swimming every week. Then in September he will be heading to his new classroom across the hall to start Kindergarten!
Jack somewhat abandoned the construction thing for a while, but it has come back full force, so he was all for attending this years Touch A Truck at Beverly High School a couple of weeks ago.
He and dad got to check out a police van and Jack got to sit in, honk the horns, and play with the seat hydraulics of various other vehicles.
Jack was very excited to be able to add a squishy van and squishy hard hat to his squishy bulldozer so now he has a collection.
