I have two hours to kill this afternoon, unexpectedly.  I thought a blog post was in order. :-)

I signed Lex up for a Lego Robotics class that started today. The class is for ages 9-14, so I had to get an age exception for him, but he was excited and I was interested in getting him involved in some extracurricular activities.  Eve and I dropped Lex off and he immediately settled in at a desk.  There are nine other kids in the class with him.  After a few minutes, Eve and I decided to wander around the art gallery and figure out what to do with ourselves for the duration. 

This is a gallery that I took the kids to a few times a long ago.  Eve and I went for a walk and I was going to show her the art studio. As we walked down the hallway a woman stepped out and asked if we were there for the Pour.Drip.Spin class.  I said nope, just visiting.  She started talking about the class and Eve got excited.  Apparently the class is for 5-8 year olds, so I left her.  I went down to the office and registered her for the class while she found herself an apron. 

So here I am with an hour remaining to entertain myself.  I’m sitting outside his classroom and laughing at myself. I have been frustrated with the amount of screen time the kids have had lately, now here I am paying good money to have Lex AIT in a dark room, in front of a computer!  I had envisioned more of the group Lego building activities, nor so much the programming activities.  Silly me.  I’ll be curious to talk to Lex at the end of class, and three days later, about his thoughts. From what I’m hearing it sounds like they are walking through how to use the program, something Lex has already been doing for years. I was worried he would be too young and therefore behind, but now I’m wondering if he’s going to be bored! 

Next week I’ll bring a book, or some UVEI homework!  Today I spent the day in kindergarten. It was fun, but definitely different!  I didn’t have to open a single lunch or tie a single shoe in 5th grade. :-)