Tad’s new teacher likes to print up pictures from online for the kids to color, which is fun. Tad, being Tad, likes to… um… enhance the pictures in his own way. So he colored a picture of a bunny flying a propeller plane… … very low over shark-infested waters. My son.  What can I say?

We just had Tad’s curriculum night for his new class last night, but we had Ane’s last week. So I’ll just combine everything into one post, starting with Ane the third grader. Her teacher this year, Mrs. C, is young (this is her first year teaching – we have drawn the “new” teacher the last […]

As I reported, Tad has learned now that scissors are not for cutting shirts.  And when I ask him how his school day was, occasionally he will look down at his shirt hem and say, “I didn’t cut my shirt!” Always a benchmark for success. Yesterday, however, he was sporting a band-aid on the middle […]

As far as I can tell, the first couple of days of school have gone well.  Of course, at dinner on Tuesday, Tad showed me what he’d done in school that day…. he’d taken his brand-new scissors from his pencil box and tried them out on his brand-new shirt.  There  was a nice, crisp cut […]