A Future Author?

Evan has become very passionate about writing.  Before going to Kindergarten he would write "books", those books were pictures with squiggly lines for the words and he would read them to us.  Now that he is starting to read more and his writing is taking off, he has started writing books again.  He often will come home from school, do his homework, and then start working on his book.

He recently wrote "The Case of The Missing Key", He wrote Illustrator Evan, Author Evan.
He was so excited to read it to me.  Then he decided to take the book to school to share it with his class.  His teacher emailed me and said that he read it to his class and inspired others to write books too.  His next book he is working on...."The Case of The Wimpy Super Hero".

Last night was the Super Bowl.  Dennis and I made some yummy appetizers for dinner and we all sat in front of the TV and watched it.  The boys were disappointed to have to go to bed at halftime, so we recorded the rest for them.  They watched the halftime show this morning.  Since they aren't used to evening television they were kind of in shock by some of the risque commercial adds.  For example, one had a gorgeous woman making out with an overweight nerdy guy, Evan says, "They were eating each other!".  Then, there was an underwear commercial with male models and Colin says, "Awkward".  They were also not sure how to react to the Beyonce half time show that they saw this morning before getting on the bus.

In other news, we got a minivan!!!  I never pictured myself with a minivan, but with 4 kids it was past time to get one.  It is just so practical to have all that space for traveling and the best part is the automated sliding doors.  No more having to worry about the boys swinging the doors open and hitting the cars next to us.  We chose a black Toyota Sienna since it has all wheel drive.

Dennis is off in New York all week, so it is just me and the kids for the next four days, should be interesting.

This morning I had a phone meeting with Evan's teacher since I couldn't set up a time to conference with her.  She said she wishes she could clone Evan and his enthusiasm for learning.  His reading has greatly improved and he is past where he needs to be by the end of the year.  They also did a reading test where the benchmark was a score of 120 and Evan scored a 240!!!  And he got 100% on another test that checks his sounding out made up words.  I hope he keeps up this love of learning.

Leah had another shot on Friday to prevent RSV.  She was 9lb 2oz with her diaper and onesie on.

Spending time with Daddy...