Tonight's the big night - Trick or Treating! We're going with our friends the Earleys (who we went with last year) over in their neighborhood. Both kids are going to dress up as pirates, which should be pretty cute. That is, as long as Audrey's allowed to go. She's made her nice clean room into a disaster area in the last hour while she was supposed to be napping. Right now she's lying on her bed singing Happy Birthday to herself.

Things have finally calmed down some with our activities. Soccer and swim lessons are now over and all we have during the week (aside from our Thursday group) are karate lessons right after school on Thursdays until 4:15. Conner wanted to go, but when I've gotten there to pick him up all I see is him goofing around with the boys he's next to. I told him that if he wants to continue karate after this 4-week session is over then he has to start listening to the instructors and stop messing with everyone. We'll see how that goes!

He brought home his first kindergarten interim report yesterday. He got satisfactory marks in all of his subjects (language, mathematics, science, social studies) but "Other" was checked for needs help to progress and she'd made a note next to it: Classroom Behavior. These were her remarks at the bottom of the page:

"Conner is a bright and happy little boy. He knows all but 2 letter sounds in the alphabet - a most impressive accomplishment. He knows all of the sight words we have worked on and is beginning to put together sounds to read words. Conner's math skills are on target. Conner needs to work on sitting nicely at meeting and keeping his hands to himself. I am proud of Conner's efforts."

At least he's consistant! A box at the bottom of the page was marked: "A conference is requested by the teacher." I'd already scheduled for a conference (for Monday the 9th) but now I'm wondering what she's going to say! I told Conner last night that I was going to ask Mrs. Hale to put him on the colored squares when he's misbehaving (which is her way of punishing)... he said he's never been there before. (It seems as though he hasn't gotten in trouble since that first week in music class, at least according to him!)

Audrey's still goofy... I was trying to brush her hair the other morning when she was eating her cereal before school and she told me, "Leave me alone! I'm trying to eat!" Wow.

I went to see the show Rent Thursday night with some friends; Eric called as we were on our way and told me that he'd just found Audrey. He said he'd been calling and looking all over the house and couldn't find her anywhere. She finally came walking in the front door carrying her pants and panties and told him that she'd "peed down the hill" outside. She'd seen Conner doing it when we got home from school and thought she'd give it a try!

To finish up, here's a video of Conner swimming at his last lesson: