Monday, April 21, 2008

GREAT WEEKEND!!

Temperature and plan wise, the weekend ended up great!! Eric had a friend come over to play for the first time in his little life and everyone was ok! Then he went to that same friend's birthday party and asked me not to stay! HMPF! Oh, really that was ok since that gave me and Brendan the chance to find Chewy a brother at the park. Here's some pics.























We went to ride bikes Saturday and had tons of fun together:

Saturday, April 12, 2008

We've gone green

Behavior is a major thing with me and my kids. I expect good behavior 100% of the time and they give me 75%. Ok, I can live with that. Behavior in school is a little different. There's no bargaining there. I want to hear that they were "on green" every day!


The schools have a system now that rates the children's behavior. They are on green for good behavior, yellow if there's just a small instance, blue will cancel recess and red is a ticket straight to the principal's office. If a student stays on green all month, they are invited to be announced at the Green Assembly. I love to hear the stories about one cheering for the other when their name is called.


Brendan does really well. He has mostly green and is proud to tell me that first thing when I aske how his day was. There was a time, though, that keeping it green was not so easy. I think that once you get branded a "shouter outer" it's hard to shake that label. He did though, and the days of yellow (it never got any worse than that) are long gone! :-)


Eric, in his half-day kindergarten world, has never had anything but green. His teacher thinks he's the cat's meow. Talks sometimes, and has to be told to stop hugging the other kids, but for the most part, his behavior is most desirable! In fact, that's what lead to this:


WOOOHOOOO!!!!