Last Week's Highlights

Monday we had Wyatt's first conference. They have moved them up in the trimester, and made them a "Goal Setting" conference, instead of a conference based on assessments. So, we sit down and the teacher (whom I like) tells us he's working right at grade level, and that she doesn't have any goals for him. What? Hmmm...so our take-away from that is that he needs to be pushed, and I guess we'll set some goals for him. The best thing she said about Wyatt is, "I've never seen a kid so into an overhead projecter!" That's our Wyatt. I'm sure he's spending his time figuring out how it works.

The oldest and the youngest in our family have horrendous colds. It hasn't slowed us down, too much. We're just all snotty and have tough coughs. The middle ones had it a couple of weeks ago. We thank them for sharing!

We went to the Pumpkin Patch on Thursday with some friends. It was a great day - cool, but not cold, bright and sunny and we practically had the place to ourselves. A small group came in for just a little bit, but other than that, it was empty!

Hannah playing with Daphne!

Annabelle jumping in the lima beans!

Daphne bamming her stroller w/excitement!

Wyatt and George in the dried lima beans!

Daphne checkin' out all the new things!

Annabelle didn't like the pokey hay!

Friday was costume day! The kids must have asked at least 200 times a day, for the last 10 days, when their costumes would be here. They actually came on Monday, but I didn't tell them, and made them wait! They were so, so excited to dress up. They both look adorable. Don't ask my how Annabelle ventured away from the Princess thing, but I'm glad she did!

This is how I found them watching TV later in the day!

Saturday we took the big kids to Star Wars in Concert. It was a fabulous production! A live symphony played Star Wars music set to clips of all 6 movies. There was a chorus for some of it, too. Anthony Daniels, who was C-3PO in all of the movies narrated the whole show. The kids were on the edges of their seats and took it all in. It was a really special event, and we're so lucky to be able to take our kids.

Daphne started clapping on Saturday, too! She points at EVERYTHING, and tells us something about what she's pointing at. I really think she's trying to talk!

Sunday was Matthew's Speedo Cup Qualifier tournament. He went in to it with just a little hesitation, knowing that so many of his players had just aged up onto his team. He only has 2 returning kids. But, like I knew they would, they won all three games (only the first one against Stanford was a nail-biter), and he will be taking his team back to Michigan in November, for the third year in a row. Go 680!