We love you homework, oh yes we do

At the end of the first nine weeks, the homework machine is primed and working pretty well. Jack is much more excited about it than Harry, but Harry's teacher bumped him up to a harder group of word study words and he was thrilled today (we'll see how long it works, but I'm liking it so far!).

Harry's new word study

Jack has been in a loving-homework mood of late and actually let me take a couple of pix today. He has taken to giving me his opinion about which pix are best, but I still get to overrule him, since it's my blog ;-) I loved this one of him working on a sun-kissed fall afternoon.
His good friend Kai is transferring to a new school and gave his friends a cool collection of things at his goodbye party today, including Jack's favorite new 'stick pencil'

This was Jack's favorite picture of the afternoon "I'm saying YEAH, I love homework!"

And this was my favorite. Later in the day, he was talking about how much he dreams of going to NYC - what does he want to do most? Touch Lady Liberty's toes. How can you not want to make that dream come true??

The afternoon was a good one: Jack and Harry talking about how smart Harry is and actually getting along fairly well, all homework done, a little Curious George, sharing a sub and dreams at Subway, and soccer practice where Jack scored a couple of goals in their practice game before taking a pretty hard tumble. He's ok after a good talk with Daddy about how to work thru the pain. These are some good times!

Bye Bye Birdie