A word from Dad...

I realized recently that I have been completely silent on the blog for some number of months (maybe years) now. Like most other technologies that I introduce Wendy to she actually begins to enjoy and utilize it consistently.

I don't mind and think that she is doing a terrific job updating the world on the happenings in our lives.

I don't have any cool pictures to post (although I would like to but don't actually have the energy to do so). However, we received a very cool memo from the Principal of Wesleys school this week that I wanted to share. It reads as follows:

A Message from the Principal

We are proud to announce that Adelante School has been named a Title 1 Academic Achievement Award Winner by the California State Department of Education! The Title 1 Academic Achievement Awards Program recognizes schools that are demonstrating success in ensuring that ALL students are making significant progress toward proficiency on California's academic content standards. We are proud of the work we do at Adelante to ensure all of our students are making gains in their academic achievement while learning two languages!!

Furthermore, it is important to note that the students at Adelante School are performing as well, or better in some cases, than students in schools that actively recruit and accept only the highest performing students. We are proud to offer a "gifted program" for all students, not just a select few."

Wow! I was very encouraged. I didn't know what all the cool lingo meant until the second paragraph. But I am thankful that Wesley is getting the opportunity to learn two languages at such a young age (he loves it and his brothers can go since he was accepted) and that he is at a school that is doing very, very well. Most of all - it if public and free :)

Lastly, his teacher is absolutely amazing and really loves the kids. We asked the Principal (as did other students upon her prompting) to let her move up to first grade with them and that may happen. In addition, Thomas, even though he is only 3 has a good relationship with her and gets to interact. It's quite fun.

Until next time...

The Waiting Game and other random thoughts

Happy Tuesday! It seems like we are doing a lot of waiting right now and it sort of makes life exciting. In four days the contingencies on our house sale should be removed. We have applied for a house only a few doors down from our good friends the Hudgins, we should know in the next couple of days whether we got it. Hopefully these two things will fall into place so we can make our plans to move.

Meanwhile, Nathan turned 11 months old, I cannot believe he is almost a year already! In the past few days he has discovered... "the cruise". He is now pulling up and cruising on whatever he can reach. It's hilarious when he forgets how to get down. He has pulled a faux tree down on himself already, among other misadventures. I just love this kid. Right now I am waiting for him to wake up so we can go run some errands.

We are working on "the drop off" with Wesley. There is a turnaround at school where you can drive up and drop off your kid. Well my son will not have it. He insists on everyone getting out of the car and walking him in to school. Which was fun for the first, oh, six months of school. Now it is getting really old, especially when I have all three kids with me which is most of the time. We have tried numerous times to do the drop off and he just freaks and gets paralyzed and it always ends badly. Well, Jason is having some success doing it in small increments. He did "half a drop off" last week...walked him into the playground and left...and today they did "3/4 drop off" which meant they drove through, Jason jumped out with Wesley and ran him to the gate opening. I am really hoping that soon we can actually do the WHOLE dropoff!