Geez!

I logged onto to update this thing, and saw that my post from February 18th never actually posted for you all to read....... I did it from my phone, so maybe that has something to do with it - I'm not real sure. But, I just released it and you can read it below.

Thankfully that crazy winter weather has not returned, and we've all managed to stay healthy- so things are starting to look up in 2011.

In my last post I said Ryann was heading to the orthodontist for a broken bracket and wire. Total she has had to have 2 brackets fixed, the wire, and we had a permanent retainer put in - she accidentally threw the first one away at school. She has also had 2 dentist appointments. The first appointment was her normal 6 mo check-up. The dentist didn't find any cavities which was good, but she did find that Ryann's teeth, especially the bottom ones were stained, so she got a good cleaning, (and a good talking to about brushing her teeth every morning and night EVREY day) the dentist also noticed her gums were very red and swollen, so she prescribed an antibiotic mouth wash. Ryann used it for two weeks, and went back yesterday. The mouth wash worked, so we are VERY HOPEFUL that the dentist/orthodontist appointments will not be so frequent - it seemed like she was at one or the other every Monday and Friday. We loved it because that meant a lot of extra time with her, but it also meant a lot of missed school for her and missed work for Adam.

Mr. Aiden turned SIX years old on February 21st. I still can not believe my baby is so big! We celebrated the Friday before his birthday with a dinner at Rainforest with Gamma and Papa. Then had his soccer birthday party the Saturday following. Both were a lot of fun. I'll work on getting pictures from all the birthday celebrations posted.... maybe this week.

We've decided to keep Aiden with Odyssey, the soccer team mentioned in my last post. The coach is AMAZING! Aiden already knows several of the boys on the team, and the parents are great -so we feel it's going to be a good fit for Aiden. The team is just practicing right now, but they'll start playing sometime next month. I'll share the schedule when it comes out.

Oh, I almost forgot. DI comp.... it went really well. The first part of the challenge is called "instant challenge" the parent's are not allowed to watch this section, and the kids are not allowed to tell us what they did - the use the same challenge nation wide, and don't want anyone to get the unfair advantage of knowing what they will be asked to do. The other section was good. The kids were given 5 key elements from the areas they studied that they had to work into a play - the whole thing is impromptu, they don't learn the 5 elements until 5 minutes before they have to perform. I felt like they did a good job, but you could tell Aiden was nervous. After the play the judges get to fire questions at the contestants about the countries and mythological creatures they had to learn about in preparation. This was the area Aiden really shined. He was always the first one with a correct answer, and he was the one his teamed turned to when they were unsure. <-- Which is saying a lot considering he was competing with kids in 2,3 and 4th grade. Adam and I were really proud of him!

Report cards came home Friday. Aiden had another awesome 6 weeks! He did earn an "S" in social studies this go around. His teacher told me that it was because during his evaluation he couldn't name Abe Lincoln. Apparently the M they use for mastery really means just that. If the kids miss even 1 question during evaluation they are dropped a letter grade.... I hate that his grade dropped over one missed question, BUT at the same time I'm amazed that until this point he has received all M's!! We requested a copy of Ryann's report card from her Mom, but that was just yesterday, and we haven't heard back from her yet. I'm sure she did good. I know a lot of this past 6 weeks she was busy preparing for the TAKS test, so I'm sure she is happy all of that is over.

I'm sure this post reads like a crazy person wrote it - I'm kind of all over the place... sorry!

I'll TRY and do better at updating this thing.
Until next time.....