Lexi's First Report Card

Comments from Lexi's teacher: "Lexi is doing well. She has adjusted to full day Kindergarten and has settled in quite nicely. She is working hard and produces good work. She has some trouble finishing her work in a timely manner. I would like to see her become a bit more self-sufficient and learn to be more independent."

Overall, Lexi brought home a very good report card. She was graded on 20 different concepts of math and reading. She got 15 E's (Excellent) and 5 G's (Good). She has been in school 42 days with no absences and 1 tardy. Of course, the tardy is from the one and only day when I took her to school. Figures! Her conduct is great. Looks like we just need to polish her work skills. From speaking with her about not finishing her work in a timely manner it seems she feels that "haste makes waste". This she gets directly from me. I remember being painfully slow in doing my school work. I so wanted everything to be perfect. Is that so wrong? This was the main reason I never did great on timed tests. Since Bill is super fast, I thought she would end up in the middle with two parents of opposite extremes.

Belle is enjoying her two days at CLC (Christian Learning Center). She has made great progress at swimming. She is doing much better using her arms and is jumping off the diving board.

Elijah had his 4 month well visit, which was much closer to his 5 month birthday, he weighs 15.5 and is 25.5". He looked great and once again we declined vaccinations. Belle has been calling him "Big Boy".

Bill passed on a trip to Lincoln to watch the Huskers play Baylor. Instead he joined the men from our bible fellowship class on a camp out. Bill does not enjoy camping, so he visited with everyone and then came back home to his warm soft bed.

I'm still adjusting to life with a child in school and all that goes along with that. It seems daily that there is something extra to send to school with Lexi or some school event we must attend. Since I'm such a homebody this is a struggle for me. Poor Elijah, never gets to finish a nap, I always have to wake him to go pick up his sisters. I haven't been counting WW points like I should and thus I still have 15 pounds to loose and I wanted to be at my goal by Halloween. I really miss the classes I had found at Gold's Gym, they were great. I need to get out my old Cindy Crawford work out tape. My cousin told me my blog had inspired her to go back to WW. I hope she has been doing better than I have lately. With WW you can always start anew. Which is good, because I will be doing WW for the rest of my life. Once I do loose this weight, I will have to do WW to some extent to keep the scales from creeping up again. Maybe that is why I've been cheating, because I'm depressing myself that this cycle will never end. Although I do hope the cycle of losing pregnancy weight has ended. I can safely say that I do not desire to be pregnant again. At times, the thought of having another baby is okay, but I really don't ever want to be pregnant again.

Earlier this week we were blessed to have a missionary couple visit us. Skip and Betty Harkins serve in Brazil with Tentmakers Bible Missions. They have been serving for 45 years. We enjoyed hearing about their work their and Betty was kind enough to read several stories to the girls. We pray their time in the states on furlough will be restful.