SOTM!

This week was the quarterly "Team Celebrations" (the artist formerly known as "honor roll assemblies") for the kids. We've (mostly) honored their requests that we stay far, far away from these events and leave them to their Rice Krispy treat celebrations with their friends.

Well this time...I wish we'd gone to Amy's. She was recognized as "Student of the Month" in her house (Rhinos...each grade is divided into subsets and each has an animal name) in the area of Responsibility (there are four areas of recognition – ROAR:  Respect, Ownership, Achievement and Responsibility). Unfortunately the school forgot to tell us Amy would be getting this recognition, so we weren't able to be there. But we are SO proud that her teachers chose her for this recognition! She thinks it's not really a big deal, but it is. Near as I can figure, less than 40 out of 500 kids per grade receive this recognition in a school year, so that puts her in pretty good company...which we know is where she belongs. To celebrate, we got her a couple of new sketch pads.

Way to go, Amy!

70s on 7

Last night we were on our way to dinner to celebrate the kids' great report cards (such as they are...no paper report cards anymore, it's weird!) and I had the XM "70s on 7" channel going. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" came on, so of course I turned it way up. Reed was perplexed by the song -- "Are you sure this isn't like 7 different songs, not just 1?"

Yep, I'm sure!

Party on, Wayne!