Some positive things...and chaos continues

So things were busy yet fun over Christmas.  Going back to work on Tuesday was incredibly hard, it was so nice having the house organized and having time to plan meals and keep things straight for the week I was at home between Xmas and New Years.   Now I am back at work and things are getting chaotic...stuff is everywhere around the house and, as usual, we are just barely keeping up with everything that needs to be done.

There has been some fun stuff though.  We are going to be taking a icefishing/snowmobile trip up north with some friends in a couple weeks.  I have never done either activity so I am looking forward to it...assuming we have ice and snow.

We also finally decided on our spring vacation.  In February we are going to take a week long cruise to the Western Caribbean.  Hopefully we will do fun things like swim with sting rays and explore Mexican pyramids (per Keegan's request).

Between that of course we need to plan Kee's bday party.  Which he is super excited about.

All that aside I mainly came on here to brag about my wonderful son.  The holiday season is tough on the kids.  Keegan and his friends got sent to the office a couple weeks ago for wrestling too rough with each other.  The next day I had to sign an incident report where Keegan threw a block at a girl who scratched him on the face.  Then the next day I had to sign an accident report because some girl grabbed Keegan by the back of his shirt and drug him across the floor giving him horrible rug burn.  I guess the girls are kind of rough in his room.

So when one of his teachers said we needed to talk about Keegan when I came into preschool to pick him up I thought...good lord what has happened now.  Well his teacher wanted to tell me good things about him: she wanted to tell me how smart he is, how well he listens, and how he absolutely made her day because he was the only kid who actually remembered all his Spanish vocabulary after the break.


She wanted to tell me she was thinking about canceling the Spanish lessons at the school, but seeing that Keegan had learned so much made her realize that at least some of the kids are really learning this stuff.  It was very nice to hear.  Then she talked about how Keegan helps all the other kids and told me that I should get him in classes to learn at least two other languages while he is still young :-)  It made me proud of him and I have to come and brag a bit...after dealing with a week of yellow slips prior to all of this (incident reports).


Keegan heard his teacher praising him and got embarrassed and left the room...he is so silly.  Miss Lindsay also said that Keegan just lightens up the class and makes things fun.  So I am glad he has been a positive influence.  It makes me more relaxed about him starting school in Sept; if he can listen this well and perform this well now he should do okay in school.


Then when we got home Lyle had set up the telescope so that Keegan could see the moon.  Keegan saw the moon and thought it was "Fabulous!" followed by  "Mom I actually saw the moon's craters.  Can you believe it I actually saw into space!"  He was so excited that he jumped up and down and had to take a few more looks.  It pretty much made his night.  After that Keegan became the Lego Nijago character Zane and did impressive spins while fighting imaginary dragons.  Keegan starts his Little Ninjas class in Feb. so he is really looking forward to learning some true ninja skills.


All in all it was a good day, despite all of the craziness that comes with being back at work.  We can talk about all the Kindergarten registration drama later.