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Bug drew a self portrait. Her long hair. Her smile. Her feet. And, her purple dress. On the top she wrote her name (You 

can see an 'e' and a 'v'). Go baby!

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Gator's Cross Country pictures. He forgot his uniform that day but he's still handsome as ever. 

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I was bed bound with a migraine all day. I'm not sure how or where I found the energy, but I chose to teach Lady Ryder how to use scissors for the very first time. She did really well making sure to not point the tip towards her body. I think she has a new favorite activity. 

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Doing her homework on the 'B' packet- hole Poking with a large push pin. I was blown away with how accurate she was for her very first time. She traced the letters perfectly!

365 Day 39

It's true that you can't expect everyday to be a good day for everyone and while the rest of us had an uneventful day Mr. Edward came home with a detention slip for his behavior.

1. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself
2. Listen to and follow directions the first time
3. Be kind and show respect for yourself, others, and property
4. Show responsibility for your behavior and choices

According to the teacher there have been lots of warnings lately and she was finally forced to write him up. I wish we would of been informed of the previous minor infractions and not just told about it once it escalated to him hitting students. 

I find it ironic that one of the reasons I want to homeschool Lady Flynn is because teachers have to spend so much of their day keeping the students on task and behaving appropriately and yet one of those very students lives in our house.  

This is the second detention slip I've ever seen in my life and they've both come home this year from the same child. I believe that this just means there's room for improvement so I shall stay positive. I really hope this is the last one we see at least for this year.

Walking

Today is Mr. Edward's last day at Barrett Ranch and the first day we got to walk to school. We had to walk quickly so that he didn't miss the bus but we made it with plenty of time and without being winded. Mr. Edward ran most of the way while Mr. Mann complained that we were walking too fast.

The bus driver seems really nice nice and I was quite fond of him but we won't be seeing him anymore.

Walking to school in the morning was great. The weather was perfect and much to my surprise, Lady Ryder did great staying in her stroller the whole walk to and from school. She even did great after nap time when we had to walk in the heat.

First Day

Today is the first day of school. Wow! That almost didn't come soon enough for me, and this last week leading up to it sure was dramatic.

We signed both boys up in our local school but found out there wasn't room for Mr. Edward so he was overflowed to a nearby school. I considered having Mr. Mann put there as well but then found out that the overflow school went to a different middle school than the one that Mr. Mann will be attending next year. Bad idea to have him make friends only to loose them 1 year later when he entered a different middle school so we accepted the boys being split into two different schools.

I finally got excited about the boys in two different schools and then last Friday I get a letter saying Mr. Mann is also being overflowed. Crap.

Monday I got the bus passes for them and just yesterday afternoon I got notice that Mr. Mann will no longer be overflowed and then today school started in two different schools. The day went well.

Cliff and I met Kim at Mr. Edward's bus stop, walked Mr. Mann to his class, and then drove to Mr. Edward's school to walk him to his classroom.

During breakfast Lady Ryder discovered her elbow and I just couldn't resist asking her if she could lick it. It was hilarious, so of course I pulled out my camera and we did it again. 

Cliff has had a nasty cough and luckily we were able to get him in to see Bruce right after school. Lady Ryder did not like the thought of seeing Bruce and we had to remind her multiple times that Daddy was seeing nice Mr. Bruce, not her.

Disco Ducks

Every year the school does a Tony Crane Dance performance. It's pretty cool watching the choregraphy and it's a way that all the kids in the school get an equal chance to participate on the stage (vs. traditional plays where those children who have better stage presence get lead parts and those, like my own kids who may be a bit more shy, would be a background non-speaking tree). Everyone has a lot of fun and they split the show to two days so it's not super long to sit through. Unfortunate though, when you have kids performing on different days like we did. Lady Ryder was really grumpy all day long, but she did really well considering she had to sit there early when we got our seats (and took Mr. Edward to practice with his class) and through the different classes. She was a little fussy and couldn't make up her mind who to sit with but finally started to get into the music and dancing by the last few songs. 

Mr. Edward's Class were the Disco Ducks. 

The whole class was absolutely adorable and they did such a great job. Mr. Edward was so excited about doing his dance and told me afterwards how he wished he could do it again. I had a couple thoughts about the dance: #1, why put the tallest kids in the front of the class. Mr. Edward was dwarfed by Jess, and Brian was dwarfed by Mr. Edward. Weird line up #2, no matter how much fun they are having neither of our kids smile on stage. Have to work on that one. Maybe this year Mr. Mann finally smiles. We'll find out tomorrow.

Lady Ryder insisted that we take her Dora backpack to the play. It was a nuisance trying to walk in with the crazy line of people, but leaving to say goodbye to Mr. Edward I realized it was rather adorable.