Second Grade?!?!?!?!

Where did my little baby Catie go? We went tonight to her new school for her to meet her teacher and see where she was going on Monday morning. She is in the second grade and I am in total shock. The teacher spoke with us about everything they would be learning this year and WOW!!! They are learning cursive and multiplication and division and FRACTIONS!! They are starting Social Studies and have actual books and real grades this year. Last year everything was graded on a scale of 1-5 and now they are getting actual grades. They are even having spelling tests and math tests. I hope I can keep up with her studying as well as my own school work. We were blessed for Catie to get the teacher we wanted and we are thrilled! We have known this woman since 1990 when we moved here and she is a member of our church. Catie has a lot of learning anxiety and Mrs. Barnes taught 1st grade for years, so she is prepared to go backwards if Catie needs some extra help remembering everything they crammed into her head last year. She was the top reader in her class last year and had a real talent for math so I am hoping her transition into the 2nd grade AND a new school goes well for my Catie bug.

After the school function we took Catie to Subway to let her get a $5 footlong and she had a blast picking out everything she wanted on her sandwich! She got the oven roasted chicken sandwich and thought she was hot stuff because we let her get white bread instead of wheat. We got home and Max was in a ripe mood. We left him with the neighbor because Caties new school isn't ready for the "beast". He had a rough day and his skin is a big oozy mess! I went to fix Charlie his dinner and Max wanted it instead and I am in no mood to argue tonight so Max ate fresh peaches and rice cereal. Poor Charlie had to wait until I could fix his dinner. He was starving and didn't even mind that he got peas instead of his yummy peaches. I make all my own baby food and my babies have to wait until I warm up their "ice cube" of food and it isn't always pleasant. I am bidding on some baby food containers on eBay so that I can retire the ice cube trays and have a more portable solution for the baby food since Charlie spends a lot of time at Chas's moms house. She loves our little monkey man and always wants to keep him for us!! His dad loves Max more than I could have ever imagined and so they are wonderful about keeping the boys so we can get stuff done. It is amazing how much faster we accomplish tasks around town if we don't have to lug a baby seat in and out of the store. We are blessed to have such great parents that help out when we really need it!!

Well all my boys are crashed out and I have to give Charlie his bath and talk Max into bed and read him his story and talk my hubby into coming up to bed. He loves to watch TV downstairs and then falls asleep and doesn't come up to bed. We have SOOO much to do tomorrow. We are going to dad's to pick blueberries and we have been promising to take the kids to the club to go swimming. Tomorrow will be another busy fun filled day! Thank goodness Chas is off work tomorrow!!

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Funny things Max said today....

"Whats in Mommy's tummy Max?"
"Mcdonalds mommy"
"What else Max?"
"Kroger's mommy"
"Anything else Max?"
" Yes mommy.....ice keem!"

I love my little man