It just seems like time goes by too fast and it is my poor little blog that is falling by the way side.

I met with the principal of Sam's poss elementary school.  Sam tested with the kinder-garden teacher at the same time.  The principal was supposed to call me with in a week, which of course she did not.  The whole thing was silly.  Every question I asked was pretty much blown off.  When I asked if there was a criteria for getting in the 1st grade, I was told they didn't have one.  I am soo excited now cause since there isn't a criteria, I am going to send our cat to 1st grade too as soon as he is old enough.  *eyes rolling*  We were also told that kindergarten is social acclimation and 1st grade is when they start learning.

I was leaning toward skipping Samantha into the 1st grade.  Then I read something when researching school districts that actually have a criteria.  The sooner we start our kids in elementary, the sooner they leave us to go on to college.  That hit home with me.   So we give her an extra easy year for fun.  We will still continue our studies at home.  And then Sam will have a real academic advantage.  Later, she can gobble up all the scholarships and not be in debt for the rest of her life.

We also have a meeting of a great Montessori school that is about 30 mins away.  A good friend of mine sends her son there.  AND.... we are poor enough to be eligible for full scholarships for both Sam and Kit!  WOO HOO!

We figure that we have time.  We will know more after we meet the Montessori school staff.  Until then Sam will continue both her reading - we are moving on to the next set of BOB books - and her math - we are moving into double digit addition and single digit subtraction.  She is doing great with guitar too. 

Kit is funny cause he wants his fair share of schooling.  He loves to read the BOB books, but he does it out of memorization.  That said, he does get there correlation of letters to words.  The other day he was moving the magnetic letters on the fridge reciting the MATT book.  When I asked him what he was doing, he told me that he was spelling the words in the book.  So we are starting with letter recognition for him.  He knows his ABCs, so now we want him to recognize them.  Count Kit in as another boy who loves math.  He loves doing math problems with Sam.  He is not as good, but can do very basic addition and subtraction.

Then there is Miss Susanna who is picking up the baby sign like a fish in water.   The sad news tho is that today is the last day I can nurse her.  I had to have surgery on my thumb cause I lost the ability to use it (trigger thumb) and for the pain med, I am on vicadin.  I can not take that while nursing.  Susanna loves real food and the ped said she is fine to drink reg milk.  I was planning on weaning her on her 1st bday cause I need to go on glucaphage.  I just wasn't prepared for today.

The surgery was today.  It went well and my thumb should be back at 100%.  Ben is off today and tomorrow.  I have groovy pain meds.  But I can't nurse my baby.  Bittersweet.  Isn't that always the way?