Great Kids

I have a couple of stories to share with you about our kiddos.

First - Beckett

Beckett is thriving in school and we are so proud of him. He had a rough start, but now he is the one the teacher pairs up with new students. Today he proudly told me about his new friend Tanner. He showed Tanner where to put his folder. He helped Tanner sign in this morning. He tried to teach Tanner the songs in music class. He always tells us that he loves school. And this weekend we were driving towards his school and he loudly announced that we were almost to "my school!"

Here is an example of his writing. This is one of his valentines. He has come so far - it has finally CLICKED!

And finally, a story from last night. At 3 am I hear
"MOM! I found my helmet!"
"Beckett, what? It's 3 am."
Yea, I know Mom. But I found my helmet! It was under my bed!"
"Beck, you need to go back to bed."
LATER....
"Beckett, why were you up at 3am?"
"Mom, it was my bones. I wanted to go back to bed, but my bones just wanted to play!"

I mean, what do you say to that???

Now - GRANT

He is thriving in Kindergarten. He is reading books for 1st graders. He is doing beginning multiplication. The other night at dinner, he whipped out fractions:

Grant - "If you have 3 halves, then it's like you have 1 whole and 1 half left over."
Roger - "That's right! How many 1/4s are in 1 1/4?"
We explained what a quarter is and he said
"Oh! You would have 4 1/4s in a whole with 1/4 left over."

In the car this weekend -
"Mom, how much is 25+25+25+25+25+25?"
Messing with him I said - "50."
"Moooommmm, no. It's not 50! It's 150 because there are 4 25s in 100 and 25+25 is 50!"

Unbelievable!

And now for a funny story on Grant.
"Mom, guess what you say to girls you like?"
"I don't know Grant."
"You can say 'Hubba Hubba.'"
"Um no, you don't ever say that to a girl."
"Yea Mom, if you like a girl then you can say 'Hubba Hubba' to them."
"Well, if you do that then they won't like you back. You don't ever say that to a girl!"
Seriously...where did he come up with that one???

Everyday he comes home with books that he makes at school. The latest is a napkin book. Inside a gingerbread napkin was 4 pages about his gingerbread man. And today I found an amazing book about Star Wars...full of illustrations and a basic story to go with them. Here are pictures of the book: