My best girl's 5th birthday

More on the subject of Amy's 5th birthday later, but right now I am just so happy that my Mom was able to talk to Amy on the phone just now and wish her happy birthday and tell her she loves her. I am so thankful, more than words can say.

So, a smart aleck, or what?

A week or two ago, Reed was having his spelling test. He was doing great, all the way up til #26. Evidently Mrs. Gill-Anderson has it drilled in their heads that whatever word she says right after she says the number is the spelling word. So she said "Twenty-six" and then had to tell a kid to "shush". Well you can guess what spelling word Reed wrote down. Shush. And got the question wrong because the actual spelling word was Speed. He said "She said 'the next word is your spelling word so that's what I wrote!'. Oh well.

What is it...

....about young kids that on school days they're dragging out of bed at nearly 7 a.m. claiming "But I'm still tiiiiiiired" and on weekends they're up at 6, ready to go? It's crazy and it's our everyday life. They aren't allowed to have "screen time" until 7 a.m. on weekends, and they (particularly Reed) get up early so as not to be a single, solitary moment past 7 when they start their TV-watching or game playing. Come Monday morning, though, we're the worst people ever for wanting them to get up.

I remind myself, though, that it won't be long at all before they're sleeping until noon on weekends and we're yelling at them for that!