Goodness, did we fall off the face of the earth or what? It has been a BUSY couple of weeks. Logan started 1st grade on August 27th and is doing great! He has come home on 'green' every day since school started (that means that he hasn't gotten into trouble) and is reading up a storm. He has his first spelling test this Friday. His word list includes man, can, big, cat, sat, the and more like that. We worked on them last night and he already knew how to spell them all. He gets a weeks worth of homework on Monday that is due on Friday and you can choose how much you want to do daily but have to have it all done by the end of the week. Well, he finished the whole thing last night without breaking a sweat. He is so smart!

Adrienne started Pre-K at Bible Bears (the preschool I work at) last week and is the only child in all three classes that can spell and write her own name. That's quite an accomplishment considering she has a hard name to spell! It's funny, she got put in the advanced class and before the class even started, her teachers expressed concern for her age and size and argued that she could not keep up. I was VERY upset that they had already underestimated her and was hurt. These are people I work with and because of that, I guess they felt like they had the right to say such a thing to a parent. It is the director's job to decide class placement, not the teachers. The director felt very strongly that Adrienne would not only keep up, but excel in the advanced class based on the last two years she has seen her grow and that Logan went though the program and did very well. Well, I decided to move her to another classroom with a different teacher even though the director said she could stay where she was if I wanted her to. I didn't feel like those teachers would ever give her a chance and the first time she failed at something would say 'see, I told you she couldn't do it'... blah blah blah. It all really turned out for the best, her new teacher Danelle (Da-nell) is wonderful and knows how to handle her and LOVES her and Adrienne LOVES her right back.

Lanie is in Ms. Jeanah's 2 year old class at Bible Bears. She is the same teacher Adrienne had when she was 2 and Jeanah and I have grown a very strong friendship over the past couple years. Lanie is having trouble seeing her as Ms. Jeanah the teacher and not 'Dina' mommy's friend who has known her since she was 2 months old and is wrapped around Lanie's little finger. She'll get it. One of these days.

I got my class last week, I am in the 2's and have the hardest class out of all the teachers. The majority of my class are crying at any given moment and the other half are trying to start fires and robbing gas stations while I am tending to the criers. It has been a tough couple of weeks and I am wondering if we are going to make it to May when I can't even say for sure that we are going to survive until the end of September!