Arnold

Some favorites come and go, but when something really sticks it is worth a blog post.  Kyle's most recent obsession is the Magic School Bus.  And by recent, I mean for the last 4 months or more he has been completely immersed in the world of this book series.  He takes his toy school bus everywhere around the house with him (he would take it out in public too if he were allowed!), and has studied every detail to the few books we own from the series.  I had bought them at a garage sale thinking they would be good science books for the elementary level of reading... Some how he found them and let his imagination run wild.  Our weekly library trips are energized by the prospect of finding a new one in the little box section that they are featured at-- we currently have 8 books and 3 movies from the series checked out... That gives you an idea of how popular they have become to our household.  We have also discovered that there is a TV show of them on Sat. mornings, oh how they look forward to that!   They all pretend they are characters from the series and they call me Ms. Frizzle :).  Come meet Arnold. 

This is the real Arnold... He is the scientific, slightly nerdy kid that is always reluctant to do something too dangerous. 

This is my Arnold.  When asked in public what his name is, he tells them that his name is Arnold.  If you call him Kyle at home, he will declare that he is not Kyle, he is ARNOLD!

He told me that he wants glasses for his birthday!  For Christmas he said he wanted a yellow striped shirt, and while I couldn't find one for Christmas, I found this one last weekend at a second hand store... He has lived in it since I first washed it! 

The series really is great!  He has learned so much about the human body because of it... He will tell any listening ear ALL about what is inside your ear or how your digestive system works.  He doesn't have a shy bone in his body and he has been know to walk up to people he doesn't know and start the the conversation with: "Do you know what?!"... And if they say "what?" he will let them know whatever he happens to be thinking about.  He is telling me about the villi in the small intestines here.

Uh, oh- don't tell him that C is about to get his school bus!

He loves to color pictures about the body... Here is the heart (with blood vessels) and large intestines, Can you tell?

It is truly part of every aspect of his play... Here he turned train tracks into a digestive system, all the way from the mouth to the butt and everything in between!

Oh, how we love our little scientific kid!