Days 96 & 97 (1st Grade)

Monday & Tuesday were filled with me chatting basically all day with Chrissy and trying to help her pick out bridesmaid & wedding dresses. Wishing I could actually go look at stores with her!!! Hoping to somehow pull off some bridal shows with her!!! Roberto had a good day at school both days. Just a little homework and Roberto tells me that he again aced his spelling test today.  Roberto is excited about his upcoming 100 days of school activities on Friday. Some good news from yesterday is that I have all my post-op check-ups scheduled for after my surgery. The next few days are gonna be busy copying stuff from the DVR to disc. Lots of kid shows!!!

Day 95 (1st Grade)

Friday. I love Fridays!!! I woke up and got the kids ready. Roberto brought his dinosaur presentation board to school that we made last year for his 100 days of school project.  He also brought one of his favorite dinosaur reference books and 2 of his dinosaur figures (Pachycephalosaurus & a T-Rex).  He went to super excited!!! While he was gone I was able to pull off some mommy time...a well needed gift to myself.  Then when Roberto got home he told me all about his dinosaur day at school.  He said that his teacher didn't have enough time to have all the kids show their dinosaur items. 

Day 93 (1st Grade)

So yesterday was Roberto's first day back to school after his 3 day weekend. Upon his return home from school he informed us that this week is Dinosaur Week!!! He was so amped!!! You should have seen his face!!! He told us that on Friday the kids can bring in anything dinosaur related!!! He can wear any dinosaur stuff and bring in any dinosaur stuff too!!! He can't wait to show off his expertise!!! Hopefully his teacher will let him shine in this area because she knows he's well beyond his peers. So today was his spelling pretest and if he got all of the words right he doesn't have to take the regular test on Friday. So far so good and he's aced every prior spelling test. And I would like to announce that I have FINALLY completely cleaned up and organized the playroom!!! It is now completely usable!!! Now I have to finish our bedroom, the living room and the dining room. All three of which are pretty close to being done!!! So excited to almost have an actual presentable and functioning house!!! AND thanks to God I think my body is finally kicking the sickies that I have been battling!!! Well see ya and til tomorrow!!!

Catching up to day 91 (1st Grade)

So as you might assume we have been busy here for awhile.  A lot has happen since I posted last.  Roberto was chosen as a STAR Student at his school in November.  The award involved the principal and two school staff members stopping by for a home visit and giving us some gifts for Roberto including a certificate, a pencil and a drawstring backpack.  The next day at school Roberto was honored with a few other students in front of his whole school and received a cool star pin.  Roberto has been caught been Caught Being Good 6 times already this year!!! He also has a cool thing at his school called the Power Store which, for those from Manteno, like our Caught Being Good in which you collect little tickets for good behavior and you can save them up to get prizes.  This most recent time Roberto had 65 soar tickets saved up!!! And yes my reaction was HOLY COW...AWESOME DUDE!!! He decided to cash in and get a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs book and a package of animal crackers!!! He super loves the Power Store.  Today Roberto came home with a little trophy and a laminated award to honor him for being one of the students of the month for December...they call it the Thunderbird Award.  The holidays were semi-frazzling like I'm assuming everyone's were, but we made it through in one piece.  A highlight for Thanksgiving is that I made my first 2 turkeys this year!!! One whole turkey stuffed with aromatics and then a sectioned turkey with cranberry orange glaze (this one was my total favorite).  We provided and cooked almost all of the food for Thanksgiving with my husband's family get together, but for Christmas we opened it up as a potluck for everyone.  For Christmas I made marble cupcakes with a holiday buttercream that I came up with and topped it with a cute little gingerbread marshmallow. I so gotta upload some photos. Oh and I forgot to mention the fun gifts that I made Roberto's teacher for Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!  I made these cute sugar cookies with turkeys on them and a gorgeous mini cake in a holiday tin.  The boys both loved all the family time and they loved their presents.  Sam has been working on school stuff with me and he really loves some apps that I downloaded for him.  Since I have been off of work I have actually gotten a lot of our house unburied from the clutter that was hanging out from after the move.  I have some good news out this time apart from my blog...my ankle has finally been diagnosed and I have surgery scheduled for February 21.  Finally something is being done.  With this I leave you for the night and look forward to the 100th day of school for the 1st grade year.