Holy productive day Batman!

Today was one of those days that you dream about. The kids were up on time, breakfast went smoothly, and hubby and Ladybug were out the door in good time. Then Superman and I got down to work for the day.

He created a dolphin show on Roller Coaster Tycoon to add to his amusement park city that he's been working on. The fact that he's remembering to take care of the customers who visit his park and diligently meet their needs is quite a feat. Usually Superman has his own agenda but he's been quite particular to make people happy so that he gets good ratings for his park. I was curious to see how he would do with it. He also creates roller coasters that I would never dream of. They go underground and twist and drop. Incredible.

He also did all of his morning chores, reading, 2 pages of language, and an entry in his "All About Me" scrapbook. He created a story about his beloved Webkinz, a raccoon named Ginz, which was seven pages long included text and pictures. He created a board game called Su-opoly which included all of the pieces to move around the board, a homemade dice set, and cards. Then he made a home movie about the animals in our house. All of that before 9:20am!!

Can you believe it? It's just incredible. I told D (hubby) that if the rest of the day went to pot, I could not care less because I got so much out of him in the morning. But he was on fire. We ran errands to the bank (and got to see the vault door which was open and that was exciting) and we looked to see how many security cameras we could find while we waited in line. We went to the post office and he mailed the package himself. We headed to the library to return our videos and books and discovered they had a self return area so he scanned the books and dropped them in the book bin and picked out new items.

After that it was off to the pet store, Best Buy, and grocery store. He was engaged, sociable, and enjoyed every minute of it.

When we came home he did more reading and then tried out a new program I got for him called Crazy Machines. I highly recommend it if you have little ones (or big ones) with mechanical minds. http://www.crazy-machines.com/ It has 102 puzzles that you have to solve using mechanics and you can also create your own machines and puzzles. I'm astounded at what he can come up with and how it gets all of the machines to work. We've had a lot of fun figuring it out together.

We also went for a walk, he made himself a snack, and we watched Extreme Home Makeover together (it's a regular Monday date for us as we're big fans) so it was an incredibly productive day. I noticed when we were shopping that he was showing signs of increased confidence. He was sociable and relaxed and interacted appropriately with the people around him.

I'm guessing that Ladybug had a great day at school. I still can't get much out of her. But she had two drops of grape juice on her shirt and pants so I know she drank her juice box at lunchtime! Ha! When we were leaving three little girls from her class that were about 6 years old were running by us and shouted "Hi Ladybug!!!!" and Ladybug gave them a little flip of the hand and a smile and said "Oh, hello." LOL Superman was shocked and said, "Wow Ladybug. I guess you've got friends, eh?"

When we walked back to the truck we noticed an orange tabby sitting on the sidewalk and she pounced over to us happily. In fact she was so happy to see us that I had to prevent her from jumping into the truck with us!!! I read her tag and "Ginger" was apparently quite used to being outdoors (she was rolling all over the snow purring happily) and once I had her convinced to go home she went back up to the porch she had been lounging on. The kids were thrilled.