No More Brian

From my 4 year old:

"Mommy, if you chop me up and bake me in the oven for supper, then you won't have no more Brian."

So I asked, "Why would I chop you up and cook you for dinner?"

Him: "I don't know, but you wouldn't have no more Brian."

So I assured him I have no intention of cooking him for dinner, that the only food I will be cooking will be coming from the grocery store.  I wish I knew where he came up with this stuff at.

Somewhat Hard

This term in school is somewhat hard for me.  I am getting an A in my math class.  But my grade in Legal Ethics has slipped.  Thanks to getting a B on one test and a C on another, my grade is sitting right around a high B.  A lot of people think there is nothing wrong with that.  But the problem is that when it comes to school, I have to be perfect.  My grade point average right now is a 4.0 from the first 2 terms.  I don't want it to change.  During my first term, I was just shooting for making the Dean's List.  But with my 4.0, I made the President's List.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing my name on the President's List.  We are just getting ready to end week 4 of this term, which means Midterm week starts on Wednesday.  I am buckling down even more to study for my Legal Ethics Midterm.  Hopefully, with a little luck and a lot of studying, I will be able to use my Midterm Exam to pull my grade back up to an A.

I have also been helping my oldest study more in his subjects at school.  He hasn't started his third quarter off so well.  As a result, he is doing some extra studying at home in those subjects, and I am also helping him with some of that studying.

My daughter had her winter testing done that they are doing for Kindergarten this year.  All her scores are falling in the "Above Average" and "Well Above Average" scores.  The school year is more than half over, and she hasn't learned one thing yet this year in Kindergarten that she didn't learn either at home or in Pre-K.  I take that back.  She has learned how to do her alphabet in sign language.  That's it.  Everything else they are doing in Kindergarten, she already did at the beginning of Pre-K.  She ended Pre-K doing addition and subtraction, along with some beginning reading.  They haven't even made it that far in her Kindergarten class yet.

Things Kids Say

My 4 year old has informed me that I picked him out.  He said I went to the "kid store" and picked him out of a cage from all the other kids in the store.  He also said I had to pay $3 for him and that the reason I picked him was because he was the cheapest.    I just love the imagination of kids.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone!  We had a pretty good Christmas here.  While the kids didn't get everything on their lists, they told me this was the best Christmas ever! 

2 Day Week = Bored Kids

This was such a short week for the kids at school.  School got canceled Monday because the roads weren't clear from the snow the day before.  They went Tuesday and Wednesday, but Wednesday night we had a nice freezing rain.  So school was closed for the rest of the week.   The kids have been going completely nuts being cooped up in the house.  They want to go out,  but there is a sheet of ice on top of everything.  We have been playing games, doing crafts, and watching some tv together, but they are getting bored with all of it.  My kids are the type that want to be outside no matter what, and it’s killing them to have to stay inside because of all the ice.