REPORT CARD TIME

It's that time again. However the folks around here refer to it as a "Progress Report". For the most part Mimi did pretty good. Mostly 3's with a couple of 4's. Math is where she fell short this time. It's not that she does not know how to solve the problem, it's just that she just freezes up when the tests are timed. The students get just one minute to solve 20 problems. Out of the problems she does complete, she gets them all correct. The problem lies in completion. So we are glad that she made it into the zero hour this time again. This zero hour class has to deal with math. We are practicing her math at home too. There is a website called Mathmagician that we are using and it seems to be helping. Other than that she has no problem at all. So all in all we are super proud of her to say the least. The teacher writes: Naomi is doing very well in 1st grade. Naomi's reading is progressing nicely. She is now able to read books on which she is tested for fluency (rate of reading) and asked comprehension questions and she did just fine in both areas. Naomi is dear. She enjoys life and class and we enjoy her.

AT THE PARK

Yesterday we were so blessed to have such gorgeous weather. It was way
too nice to play indoors so off to the neighborhood park we went after
school.

THERE IS NO PRINCESS LIVING HERE

Tonight Mimi and I went out to buy her shoes for the Father/Daughter
Ball this coming Saturday. All the way to the store Mimi whinned "I
HATE SHOPPING!" Then when we arrived to our destination the girl cried
out "I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!" While there we bought a new umbrella for
her ad the Hello Kitty one gave out. I bought that one way before I
knew that she would turn out to be such a rambunctious tomboy. Take
mote that the handle is in the shape of tires.

SCOOTER

I love daylight savings time. This evening we took Butch over to the
school and Mimi wanted to ride her scooter. Last year she did not have
much interest in it. Then came the rainy weather so there is not much
playing outside plus with all of her extracurricular activities, we're
hardly ever home. Today she wasnted to practice and so we did. I told
her that tommorrow she could ride it to school as we will be starting
up with zero hour again and we will be at school before anyone else.
She lit up like a Christmas tree.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM

This month is Alex's dad's (Tim) birthday. As a surprise Katrina came
up with the idea of making a book for him. She asked each and everyone
of their friends to take a picture of themselves and e-mail it to her.
Without thinking ahead yours truly came up with this bright idea of
the kids with the sign and usually when one comes up with the idea,
one usually ends doing the whole project. Therefore I spent my whole
afternoon yesterday making the sign. True to form, Mimi took charge of
getting her friends to pose. It all worked out in the end and the only
thing left to do is send it off to Katrina tonight.

MIMI AND HER BOYZ

A while back Katrina (Alex's mom) shared a story with me. She said that when Halliwell came over to the house, Alex (who is all boy) suggested some boy games to play. Halliwell (who is all girly girl) just turned her nose up and said "no". No matter what Alex suggested, the answer was always "no". To which Alex told his mom "That's why like playing with Mimi. She likes playing the same stuff as boys do."

This afternoon I witnessed it for myself. I picked up all three kids from school today. Mimi's class is ALWAYS the LAST class to come out. While we were waiting for Mimi, Alex tried playing with Halliwell but the girl would not give him the time of day. Finally Mimi came out and his face just lit up like a Christmas tree, that is until I told him that she had to go to gymnastic class and that it was not a playdate but that I would take him home on our way to the gym. He looked quite crest fallen. Poor little fella. After dropping Mimi off, I stopped by Alex's house to talk with Katrina for a bit and we made plans for a playdate for this coming Friday as they do not have school due to staff developement day. All is A-ok is his little world now.

SCHOOL IS ALMOST OVER

While going over my hectic calendar the other day, I realized that school is almost over. Holy Cow! Mimi only has a couple of months till I get to have her home full time. What to do? What to do??? I guess now is the time to sign her up for her annual swimming lessons and then she wants to play soccer. Of course there will be library time too. Oh well I guess I "Better git to gitt'in" as my dad would say.