Teach 'Em Young

Working with kids is tough. Just ask me. Have you ever tried to teach a 3 year old all of the Presidents of the USA? It's tough. I was pretty proud of Zach though. He made it up to like number 4 or so, Jackson throws everyone off. Check out the video to see our good job.

So we had a pretty great week. The beautiful weather and busy plans helped keep us distracted while Dad was gone. We had dinner at some friend's house, piano lessons, going to the gym and some hillbilly lawn tractor rides to keep us occupied. Dad got back on Friday after some delays due to bad weather. His bag didn't make it, but that's ok, he did. We're happy to have him home and hoping his next trip is at least a month away. The new factory line in Arkansas is getting up and running on schedule.

Can you believe I only have 3 weeks of school left? Wow! Mom's been trying to study all the summer program books and map out my summer activity schedule. I think I'll try tennis, t-ball and maybe a day camp or two. Nothing too crazy though...gotta have time to relax and be a kid! We're really kicking the reading into high-gear at school. Our teacher had a challenge for us to read 80 minutes over 4 days last week. We do 20 minutes a night, so it wasn't a big deal, but some of the kids got a little overly competitive, which made for some hurt feelings so it was kind of a bummer. But, the good news is that everyone met the challenge and we all got to eat lunch with the teacher on Friday. This week's challenge will be for ice cream sundaes!

Tomorrow is Mother's Day. I think we're going out for brunch and then Dad will take us swimming so mom can kick her feet up for a bit. Swimming indoors of course! We're sure glad we didn't plant our tomatoes or beans yet, it's going to frost tonight here! We wish we were in Florida right now with the rest of our family. Uncle Adam graduated EOD school and we're quite proud of him. He'll be moving to Fort Bragg soon and joining a new division doing what he loves...shooting stuff and blowing stuff up.

That's all for now, time to go screw off.
K.