Hooray for Mom!

Amy has always wanted her hair French braided, but unfortunately that's not a skill I learned growing up. So one day a few weeks ago, I decided that it can't be THAT hard, I needed to learn.

I spent a semi-frustrating hour one night watching YouTube videos on how to French braid, using Amy's new American Girl doll, McKenna, to practice on.

The next day, I did this - kinda crooked, but pretty great for a first-timer!

Moving right along...

Well I wrote not too long ago about how Amy has really progressed with her reading. She now has at least 4 books she's working on reading at all times. I am not sure that she's circling back around to all of them, but hopefully she will at some point.

Amy has even finished the first and second Harry Potter books - can you imagine! Reed first read those in second grade, so she's quite proud of reading them earlier, and he is very quick to point out that he read them much more quickly and repeatedly than she has. Always a competition! Amy has even taken the Accelerated Reader test on the first Harry Potter and got a 90% score! Way to go, Amy!

Best Mother's Day gift ever...two kids hanging out together,
quietly reading for an hour. Aaaaah.

Good company

At the movies...pardon how miserable he
looks, he really wasn't!

So Tod and Amy headed out to Montana on Saturday morning for cousin Sam's high school graduation. That left the three-day weekend for Reed and me.

He's been great company. We got up early Saturday morning (reaaaaaalllly early – 4:30 a.m.) to take Tod and Amy to the airport. When we got back, we walked the dogs, then I went back to bed! Walking the dogs is a nice opportunity for Captain Question and Captain Segue-way to come out. Of course these are both Reed. He asks question after question...half the time he doesn't even really care to listen to the answer. Many times the questions are sports-related - "Mom, how many times have the Los Angeles Kings been in the Stanley Cup finals?" "Mom, why do most stores only have one level, and even when they expand they stay on one level instead of making a second level?" "Mom, who won the last five NFC championships?". And yes, most questions are still preceded with "Mom" even though I'm the only one there. So he will go from subject to subject - sports, science, math, nature...back around again and in between. The way his brain moves from one thing to another just doesn't compute with me. I do the best I can to answer his questions, but fall short more often than not - especially if the question is a random sports statistic!

We've done maybe a little too much running around this weekend, but I hope he's had a good time with his ol' Mama. Love that boy.