School Days

Chavi's teacher was nice enough to pass along some pictures she took of the girlfriend at school. She is all about the girls at school. They are a little posse of blond haired scamps.

Maddox's Birthday

11 kids. 5 pizzas. 12 art projects. 37 paper airplanes.














Having it over and done with: priceless.

Jaime guilted me in to it

Halloween pictures - could we be any more stereotypical? Although Chavi did get more than her fair share of ooohs and ahhhs.

and... two steps back

Today is a half-day Wednesday, which means longer afterschool. It also means more time in the music room (where they do some afterschool on half-days), which apparently smells funny.

Still more progress

On Tuesday, Maddox was busy drawing when I went to afterschool to pick him up. He asked for me to wait, and then presented me with this picture, saying "This is how my day was today!"

Making progress

Maddox was very excited when I picked him up from school on Monday. He dashed over to me and said, "Mom! Guess what?!"

I couldn't imagine what the good news was. A star on his forehead? He was being promoted to first grade? Candy for lunch?

"What?"

"I pooped at school today!"

Homework

Who knew they assigned homework in kindergarten? Granted, it's only writing a sheet of Ms (upper and lower case, mind you) but still. Who knew that a 5 year old with no nap is not capable of completing said homework after 6:45 p.m.? Who knew said child could barf at will? Who knew my tolerance for barf could be so high? Who knew, way back when, that I would not think twice about sending said child to school after said barfing incident? Who knew, when I took forgotten water bottle to school after aforementioned child forgot it, that there would be other parents there telling the principal that, yes, their child had barfed that morning, too, but they really thought they were okay?

Two to leave you with

I'm going off the grid for a while, for a real vacation with no technology. (Really, none.) This is the only thing I'll miss:







































Okay, this too: