The Royal Blog

11/05/09

11/04/09

B & E2 were at the bookstore last night to get the latest installment in the 39 Clues series.  Apparently B told E2 not to climb on a table, and apparently someone did not listen, and then took a nose dive off said table.  E2 had a very restless night and is staying home today. Fortunately her nose doesn't hurt too much (drinking from her sippy cup was uncomfortable) and she let me clean her up a little.  I am having trouble not laughing at her extremely nasal voice.

And here's the kidlets on November 3rd of last year:

11/02/09

10/30/09

E1 did wear her costume for the parade and party but was not wearing it when I picked her up.  Sounds like very little school work got done today - not sure why *yesterday* was an early release day; seems like it should have been today. 

Sounds like E2 had a lot of fun at her preschool party and after!  If she had any more sugar in her, she'd be a human Pixie Stick! 

 

Z ended up not wearing his costume to school.  His day? Was like any other school day!  Oh well - this big bad 7th grader didn't seem to mind!
 

10/28/09

Technically this is more E1 before gymnastics (with her Vera bag for her grips) than E1 after school (especially since she changed clothes):

10/12/09

PHEW!  Z had a GREAT day!  There are people he already knew (and liked) in several classes, he has people to sit with at lunch, he played soccer in gym, he likes most of his teachers, and I am SO relieved!!!

10/08/09

10/07/09

10/06/09

10/02/09

9/29/09

9/28/09

9/24/09

E1 after school.  On Thursdays she stays for 30 minutes with her math teacher (our district eliminated language arts EPP and instead of going to math *and* math epp, students now go to math with their EPP teacher) to get her up to speed with the 5th grade.  Today Mrs C said that she is caught up but is willing to continue the lessons so I was all over that.  So nice of her to give up her time.  If I were a teacher, my tires would be squealing out of the parking lot 30 seconds after the last bus left.

Today was picture-day:  E1 is wearing a blue shirt, blue jean shorts and there is blue in her socks and tennis shoes.  She was very happy that I picked the blue background for her photo.  Girlie loves her blue!

9/23/09

9/22/09

ETA: Right before she got out of the car this morning, E1 said "I thought 5th grade was going to be hard." Not for you my little sweetie!

9/21/09

E1 right after school.

9/18/09

9/17/09

9/16/09

9/15/09

9/14/09

9/11/09

9/10/09

Last night at gymnastics, a little girl in a rec class got in E1's way twice, once while E1 was landing her vault.  So now her ankle hurts. Grrrrr.

09/09/09

 

9/8/09

9/4/09

 

Why yes, she really likes that green hoodie, why do you ask? ;P

9/3/09

We lost track of time this morning, so no a.m. picture (and she was almost late!).  This is E1 after school, finishing up a Nancy Drew book (The Secret of the Old Clock). 

I have a big box of all my Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden books somewhere ~ I'll have to look again later and see if they turn up. 

9/2/09

This looks like yesterday's photo, but E1 *is* wearing clean clothes. 

She got in the car yesterday and said "I LOVE study hall!!  I got all my homework done!"  Hurray! With her brutal gymnastics schedule (15 hours of practice weekly, 2 hours of privates most weeks, 1 hour of dance once or twice a month and two hours of open gym some Friday nights) it is really important that she stay on top of things.

9/1/09

8/31/09

E1: 8/28/09 Day 2

The return of the Daily School Pic!!

Day Fifty Five

Day Fifty Four

Care to guess what kind of mood Z is in this morning?  Sigh. And to top if off, I was so busy trying to get him out of the house that I forgot to get their lunches out of the fridge. Grumble grumble.

Day Fifty Three

Day Fifty Two

Day Fifty One, Part Two

Z is in a much better mood this afternoon (E1 is another story).  My conference with his teacher was short - he too is doing very well in school.  Well-rounded, social, "no doubts about his future success in academics", etc.  The only thing he needs to work on is organization - specifically with follow-through.  He does his assignments (sometimes twice! what a waste of time.) but turning them in is an issue. 

Day Fifty One

Z went to school a little mad today because he got caught kicking E2 right before we left. The kicking is annoying, but it's the lying that is really ticking me off.  In other Z news, I have a conference with his teacher today after school.  And yesterday, right in the middle of class, he had a really big fart! Was he embarrassed? No, everyone in the class laughed and thought it was really funny. 

Day Fifty

This week is off to good start:  Z went to bed mad last night.  Both girls ended up in bed with me last night. I woke E1 up this morning to take a shower and discovered at 7:26 that she crawled into her bed and WENT BACK TO SLEEP.  Argh. 

Day Forty Nine

Early Dismissal Today!

And No School Tomorrow!

Day Forty Eight

E2 is sneezy, coughy, raspy and a little warm so I think we'll just hang out at home today.

Day Forty Seven

Yay! E1 is reading the same book she read yesterday that gave her nightmares that made her crawl into bed with us this morning at 4:15! 

Yay! E1 is up to 15 B.U.G. awards! (Being Unusually Good!)

Day Forty Six

A dusting of snow today!

Day Forty Five

 

Day Forty Four

Two things I am very happy about this week:

At the district level:  a team of high school teachers is submitting a grant application to fund a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math School.  I would absolutely LOVE for Z to have the opportunity to attend a school like that!

At the school level: the third grade students are now switching classes for Math and are being placed in skill-based groups! E1 said there are only about 10 students in her Math class!

I think it's kinda funny - on the recent parent surveys I've taken for our district and the gifted services department, I specifically complained about the lack of magnet schools in our district, and the need to group kids by ability level. 

Day Forty Three

This was staged; I told them to jump for joy! :)

Day Forty Two

Day Forty One

The big kids had very fun parties at school and the sugar ingestion (is that a word?) is off to a great start!

At 5:00 I'm dropping Z off at his friend J's house for pizza and trick or treating. *sniff*  I hate when one of my little chicks leaves the nest before I'm ready!

Day Thirty Nine

Day Thirty Seven

Oh well. They can't all be winners!