First 1st grade parent teacher conference.

Heads up/note to self/advice to other parents...  If you want a decent amount of time with your parent teacher conference, schedule it early in the day.  They work like doctors offices, I know the rules.  The first few meetings run over, and exponentially later, the later meetings are rushed.  Uck.  Still, it was a good experience for two reasons.  The first was that Teacher assures that Lex is doing wonderful.  Second, because Tall Handsome Dad drove a decent distance to be a part of it.  Lex really appreciated it, so did I.  I was mucho embarassed that I instructed John to call when he got there, realized 10 minutes into it that my phone was turned all the way down, then when I explained to Teacher, she was so rushed, she told me not to go get him, it would be over before I could, we could all meet later.  I didn't explain to her how far he drove to be there, but I did tell her a few times how I wasn't fond of how rushed it all felt.

Greatest Day Ever!

Ok, so I wake up with a cold.  So what!  We made plans, sort of, last night to find a stretch of dirt to play marbles on....Lex want's to learn. 

Post 7:30  I wake up and head out to facebook, and what not.  8:30  Lex is on me like white on rice to get a move on....  Some time later, John is eating breakfast at Denny's and texting us this very fact  (oooh, I forgot to mention Lex and McBreakfasted about an hour earlier...)  John shows up, we go to Freddy's (Griff gets to go too!) and get three wiffle balls for Lex and a crazy ball for Griff.  Super Dad takes us to Brookwood Elementary where we spend a splendiforous amount of time playing baseball, or sort of.  Then John goes to get beverages while Lex and I play marbles on the home plate dirt.  Mmmmm!  Frozen coffee beverage!  Lex gets orange frozen drink!  Super Dad drives home and the three  (or four or more if you count the animals) watch the first Harry Potter movie for the first time!  Lex is still putting spells on everything!  I am still in awe of what a day can be!  LOVE life!

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Iechyd da!

Dinner for three

John brought dinner over tonight, and the three of us ate, not at the table, because there is no "table" in this house.  But we ate together.  It was very nice, very nice. We laughed about our creepy, but funny, psycho rat toy. and just chilled. It was a wonderful feeling for me, and obviously for Lex.  He is her Dad now, I know it because she keeps saying so without anyone asking her to.  Dad put her to bed, it was so right and sweet, I had to leave the room to not cry. Thank goodness my mom called to inquire about recent reports of swine flu at Lexie's school.  eeechhh.  So tired of flu.

Iechyd da!

Lex can read!

The morning homework has been so GREAT, I can't even think of many more adjectives to describe it.  She is learning to read, wait! She is reading, it's wonderfu!.  After school and daycare, she is so resistant to "doing more" school work.  So...  I get up at 5:43 am (every frickin morning), pull the covers off the bed so she won't snuggle back up, throw the covers and blankets onto the rocking chair in the corner of the room., and on to next step.  I place her backpack on the bed with my pick of clothes for the day.  No saying if she'll go along with my choice or not.  Then I get two dollar bills for lunch money and a Chocolate Brownie Cliff Bar and put them on her backpack.  I pick her homework out of her backpack and arrange it on the bed.  I get her favorite homework pen, place it on her homework and go outside to play on the computer and wait until she wakes up.  I go back in in 15 minutes, and she's discovered there's no blankets and is squirming around.  I kiss her forehead, and she says, "I have to go to the bathroom."   I get my own self dressed and ready, and when I'm done, she's awake.  Giggly morning girl.  There is no order to the rest of the morning.  She does her math with her favorite pen.  I come in and check her work and sign off on it.  We banter about everything.  She feeds her two fish.  She puts her clothes on....slowly while watching morning show on Discovery Kids, and I come in and check on her every 5-10 minutes.  She practices for her Friday spelling test, I sit on the bed with her and we read her reading assignment, well, she reads it anyway.  We go through the words she's learning on flash cards, and then she just giggles, giggles, giggles!  By now she's mostly dressed, put the two dollars in her pocket (gets upset with me when I pick an outfit without pockets!), put her snack in her backpack, put her jacket, socks, and shoes on. Then she washes her face and takes her vitamins after much protest.  Brushes her own hair.  It's Euphoric!