Elijah is at it again...he went from basketball right into volleyball.
I really like watching him play, but it may be short-lived. He's one deferral away from 3-days out-of-school suspension. Elijah is one of those kids that cannot sit still. He wiggles and pokes and fidgets with stuff he shouldn't. I suppose I could medicate him into a zombie, but then he wouldn't be Elijah, would he? So this week he got two referrals from a substitute. The first day she thought he was the one making other kids laugh although she said she didn't actually see him make faces. The second day he wouldn't quit fiddling with stuff on a desk. Times have changed. When I was a kid they gave you a timeout in the hall for this kind of stuff. Today, kids get suspended from school. What do they if there's a fight? Public lynching? I know he needs to sit still, blah, blah, blah. I also think they need to be a lot more tolerant...we all don't fit the same mold and 70 minute class periods are killing my kid. Okay. Off my soap box.
I hope I'll get to see more of this....
Little Princess loves to "play" school. She's cutting out shapes and pasting them on a sheet. When your 4-year old points out that something is "not a circle, but is oval" she should probably move past shapes. She writes all her letters so now we are working on spelling short words. She knows....Olivia, Mom and Dad. Since she has a December birthday she can't go to school this fall (and she is so ready!). I want to get a formal preschool curriculum so I am forced to not be lazy. She so wants to learn.
Look...jelly beans. Want one?
Free Snow....You Haul
See that mound? Under that very deep snow is $160 worth of top soil. I need it to plant my seeds. The snow between me and it is waist deep. I need to shovel a path and clean off half the hill so we can cover it with plastic and blast it with the space heater. I'm thinking a little more planning in the Fall would have made my life a little easier now. Come on! Let's have a shovel party!
You can announce Spring all you want (and you know who you are), but you will never convince me and the chickadee that today is the first day of Spring. I'll let you know when it's really here.
Winter shadows.
4 comments:
what a great series of photos, you have a whole lot going on but it all seems so joyful
my son was a fidget master and class clown - those were not easy days but they pass
I miss watching him play any one of the 10 different sports he was involved in :)
Gayle, check into Fish Oil for ADHD. My daughter is using it on her 6 year old and says it has helped a lot. They, too, didn't want to put him on drugs.
Sure hope spring comes pretty soon to you guys!
Those dauschunds are so adorable. And their little coats are cute too. I bet you could sell those coats online.
Gayle, Im so ready for Spring...and not the 'official' spring that we are in...the real spring of no snow and lots of warm sunshine!
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