Happy June! Hope everyone is soaking up the sun and enjoying these summer days!
My boys all did amazing this school year. Zack went to a new school that is notorious for being hard. Very rigorous. 9 classes. He went to the Ba.sis school here, and loved it. I was a bit skeptical when he said he wanted to go there. It's a lot of homework and studying and tests and quizzes. He likes to play sports. And video games. Those damn video games! And talk/skype/text with his friends. Anyways, he got straight A's all year long in every class. He made honor roll (top 15% of his class) 2 quarters this year. His overall class average was 97% this last quarter! Holy cow! And they take pre-comps (mid-terms) and comp (cumulative final exams). Talk about pressure! He is notoriously disorganized and lets mommy save his bacon when he is irresponsible and forgetful and loses stuff. This school's claim to fame in the middle school years is teaching them study and organizational skills. And by God, it worked! Listen to the classes he took this year: Mandarin (and he went to his friend's grandpa's house who is Chinese for extra practice who talked to the teacher who told the grandpa that Zack is one of the best students in Mandarin class! Did you catch that?! Sorry long run-on sentence.) After Mandarin is Biology, Chemistry (he was doing stuff I did in 11th grade!), Physics, P.E., Algebra 1, English, Logic, & US History. He is an interesting kid. Not totally nerdy...athletic too. He was the strike out king in majors this year in Little League! (He pitched the most strike outs, not the most strike outs at bat! lol!!) Also, he was tied for the most home runs this season. Totally on fire. And he painted his little 2 year old sister's nails yesterday with her favorite Frozen nail polish. Bam! Don't get me wrong, he is still a typical teenage boy (almost a teenager in a couple weeks) and pushes my buttons and his brothers' buttons!
My middle son had a great year too. Straight A's all year long in the honors program and had a great last year in minors baseball. Was primarily the catcher or pitcher. Did really well. He is into roller hockey right now. LOVES to rollerblade in my living room. SIGH.....
My 7 year old is hilarious. And smart. And athletic. Did I mention hilarious? The other day, I was telling the boys they are getting haircuts this week. Joshua said, "I only want the hair on my back cut." Cue middle son: "WHAT?? You have hair on your back??" And I said, "No, he means that little piece of hair in the back of his head in the middle that grew longer around his neck." Jacob asked if daddy had hair on his back. I replied, "No." Joshua, my son with that devilish 7 year old grin said, "Well, if I had hair on my back (as opposed to the hair on the back of his head), I would just go to that place and get it waxed!" I almost spit out my drink! I inquired how he even knew about those waxing places & he said he saw something about them on T.V. What the what?! On the Disney Channel?! Oy.
Cambria is talking SO much and stringing more and more words together to form long sentences. We are working on potty training. It was all her idea. She's been going on the potty a few times a day. So proud! She loves nail polish and loves to pick out her hair bows now. And she loves to go swimming.
Even though some days are harder than others, I'm lucky and blessed. And I know it.
You are so right! Joshie is hilarious!!!!!
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