Where has the week gone?

I cannot believe it is almost Friday. My week has flown by partly because we spent the entire weekend (Friday 4-8:30, Saturday 7-6 and Sunday 7-8:30) working at Corazon's gymnastics meet. I think it is almost pathetic that in a strange way that was the most fun I have had in a long time. Partly that was because I got to spend most of that time without any of the kids and in the company of adults. I think this is also part of the reason I miss working. I don't get much of a break from the kids, especially homeschooling, and as much as I love them and our life, it gets exhausting. I got to know a couple of the parents a little better and didn't have to focus on all the little dramas that play out throughout the day at home. Of course, they paid me back for this "desertion", especially Corazon. She was an absolute nightmare on Saturday night and nothing could get her regulated. I finally just sent her to bed early but of course, the behaviors didn't stop. I was up at least a half dozen times throughout the night dealing with all 3 of the older kids!

Corazon was competing on Sunday and I was a bit concerned about what behaviors we would see from her but she did amazingly well. In fact, it was her best competition, earning her two blue (scores of 9.0 and above) and two red ribbons (8.0 and above).

The rest of the week has been filled with field trips, practices, errands, schoolwork, Kindergarten homework :-) and nothing else out of the ordinary but the week has just flown by. We did get Pollito's report card and C. went to his parent conference. It appears he is "far" behind the rest of the children in the expected Kindergarten skills. Not a big surprise since we continue to see him as more in keeping with a 4 year old than a five year old in most other areas including his speech and language which is one of the areas that will impact much of his Kindergarten performance. We are keeping an eye on it but not panicking. He is simply NOT interested in learning his letters, numbers, etc. yet. Even though schools begin to panic about this stuff since many now expect kids to be reading by the end of Kindergarten we suspect it is going to take him longer than that so we will just keep encouraging him without the pressure.