Have I mentioned that I’m really not a fan of the cold? No, really. Despite being mostly body fat, I’m still too skinny to develop a good insulating layer. Despite loving Virginia, it’s friggin cold here. Last Wednesday we saw our real snow of the season. We got about an inch that stuck around for most of the morning. It was all melted and gone by the end of the day, but when the boys got home from school there was still enough for a brief snowball fight. It’s been a bit warmer than that since then, if you can call 40 degrees ‘warm’. Being a California weather weenie, I’ve been bundling up like I’m hunting penguins in the arctic (yeah, I know, shaddup. I like the image).
It was actually fairly warm today (about 56) so we had fun with the boys building bird feeders. Turbo was working on getting some of her glass done so we can get it up on the website I created for her. I’ll link it once it has some actual glass on it.
Everyone seems to be over the long bout of being sick that hit us all.
The boys got their second ‘six week’ report card. I guess that’s how they do it here. Both boys did very well, and improved over last, uh, six weeks semester or what ever they want to call it. Dane is pretty much at the top of his class in reading, near it in math (got A’s in both). Ty is doing very well, but they way they grade for kindergarten is a bit off. He can count to 100 by ones, fives, and tens, which is well ahead of where they are supposed to be (counting to 20 is par right now). He’s being rated as ‘at expected level’, even though he vastly exceeds it. Teresa has conferences with both the boys teachers on Monday, so hopefully we’ll learn a bit more about that.
Ty’s teacher has a heavy Virginia (read banjo plucker) accent that Ty has picked up on. He’s pronouncing Half as a two syllable word now, as well as many other long A words. We’re pretty sure he’s just emulating his teacher because he knows it mildly annoys us.
We are back to the battle of the wills getting the boys to try new things for dinner (wipe that smile off your face Mom). We’ve had more success with Dane because he’s actually liked many of the new things we’ve had him try. Ty refuses just out of pure stubbornness. When we were in Redding we made him take a bite of spaghetti. He normally likes spaghetti, but didn’t want to try this because it wasn’t the ‘skinny noodle’ kind that he likes. He sat there with that bite in his mouth, refusing to chew or swallow it, for two and a half hours. Just sat there. Being stubborn. For two and a half hours. I know my mom is laughing herself silly at this, thinking about all the years of payback I’m in for. Yeah, yeah, all your dreams come true mom. 😉
So that’s the latest and greatest with us. What’s up with you lately?
You can email the boys directly if you like at Ty or Dane at our domain, blackwood.ws. I won’t post a direct link to avoid the spam that inevitably comes with doing that. If you aren’t smart enough to figure out the email addresses, you probably shouldn’t be allowed on a computer anyways. 🙂
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