mayer

i know....it's been a while since i have updated you all on the exciting lives of the uhlmans and i'm sure you have all been checking here every day since the last post...

i realized i haven't talked too much about mayer. so today is all about mr. mayer.

 to start off a couple quotes he's come up with in the last few weeks...
     mayer: "mom, remember at my soccer game? did you think i was a lobster pushing everyone out of my way with my big tail?"
     me (trying really hard not to die laughing since i was on the autobahn): "no, i didn't think you were a lobster"
     mayer: "why not? at my next game can you pretend i'm a lobster?"
yes, mayer. i will most definitely pretend you are a lobster, because now that is all i can think of when i see you playing soccer.

and another quote, that i'm not too sure how i feel about but it's funny none-the-less....
mayer: "god died so he could use his super powers to kill all the dinosaurs"

and this isn't really a quote but for crying out loud it was funny. we were on the way to soccer practice and all of sudden, mayer starts crying. so i asked why he was crying and upset. he said, he was just thinking about how when he's 11 he has to get more shots and they are really, really going to hurt. so i replied that 11 was very far away and when he was 11 they wouldn't hurt that much. he said, "i'm already 5 and then i'll be 6, then 7, then 8, then 9, then 10, then 11. see...that's not very far away".

so now that you have had a little chuckle, here's the latest on mr. funny. he's playing soccer (insert pic of lobster) and he's doing fantastic! he loves it and actually pays attention to the coach and pays attention during the game - HUGE improvement from basketball.

mayer is in preschool at our local german kindergarten. he's doing well there and is learning german much faster and better than troy and me. he has a couple friends and looks forward to going each morning. i look forward to literally walking across the street and walking 5 minutes to take him to school. we have a parent-teacher conference next week so we'll see what's been going on.

i had a bittersweet moment last thursday when i registered him for kindergarten in the fall at the base. the bus comes here at 7am and brings him home at 3pm each day. i'm nervous for him to be gone all day and to take the bus, but all of this is going to happen at some point. i was looking forward to registering him and then when the lady said "welcome to patch elementary!" i said thank you, started crying, grabbed the school supply list and ran away. i'm such a dork. i know he will do really well at school, i'm just amazed the day has finally arrived for him to start elementary school. and speaking of the school supply list....what 5 year old needs 24 glue sticks?

mayer has become an excellent big brother. there are definitely days when i hear "mooooooommmmm, grayson took my _________ (fill in the blank)" about every 2 seconds. but most days, he's very patient with grayson and is more than willing to share just about everything. the other morning while i was getting ready, grayson kept jumping from behind mayer's door while waving and saying hi to mayer. and every single time grayson did that, mayer would stop playing with his legos, wave and say hi back to grayson. it was very sweet and made me smile. i think/hope they will be great friends one day.

more on mayer soon...