Wednesday already?!?!?

~MONDAY~

Kids went back to school. YEAH! Our routine is back.

Kiley had a great day at school (she left her stick where it belongs....don't ask!). Her writing assignment this week was to write about someone that means a lot to you. So, while we were waiting on Rich from after school tutoring I had her start thinking about who she was going to write about. Her first thought was her dad, then she quickly changed her mind and yelled out, "Bubby!". I can't stand when she calls him Bubby or me Memo....but she could have worse names for us, right? She had to write about 3 specific reasons this person means a lot to her. She/we chose he keeps her safe (when she mistakenly walked home from school and it was cold yet he made sure she was warm and made sure she got across the streets safely), he teaches her things (taught her Uno this weekend), and he is good at sports. So sweet, and thoughtful of her.

Rich had a great baseball practice this evening. His team is looking really good. They are tired of practicing and are ready for their 1st game on Saturday. After practice he told us he found out he passed the Reading portion of the TAKS test. This was an overheard conversation and his wandering eyes found out.....but I told him to wait until he had OFFICIAL word from Mrs. Bell before getting too excited (I said that for myself, too!!!!) He has struggled and while we hoped he passed on the first round (gets 2 more chances), we wanted to make sure he was OK and knew we would be OK if he found out otherwise.

~Tuesday~

Kiley let her stick get pulled today. Wanna know why? TALKING! Imagine that! Our Kiley a talker. Nah! She finished writing her 'Bubby' paper and got it all written neatly and perfectly in her writing binder.

Rich.........OFFICIALLY PASSED READING TAKS!!!! Now he tests on 7-April for math. If he gets by passing on that...NO SUMMER SCHOOL or retesting! We don't really think he needs summer school. He is a mostly B student with a C here or there usually.

~Wednesday~
Kiley actually made it today WITHOUT a change of the stick! YEAH KILEY!!!

Rich is glad school is 1 day closer to being out....can't blame the kid! He is very much so looking foward to Opening Day of baseball season Saturday.

I made some really cool signs for the parade for Rich's team's float. Kiley made me feel bad when she asked where her's were for her float. Guess I'll be running around getting the stuff for that on Thursday and getting them made Friday night.

Mike has been feeling like crap this week. Went to urgent care on the way home and it is a viral infection, but he got a nice steroid shot in the hip to hopefully kick it.