I'm baaaack!!
Another chaotic and fabulous school year is over. I will finally bless you with photos ;-)
Here's Iain with Ms. Prentice, his fabulous 4th grade teacher:
And Ria with her teacher (on the left) Mrs. Milos, and her aide Mrs. Gloria on Kindergarten graduation day:
And, being Ria, she has 2 more teachers, but I only caught one of the others with her, Ms. Lucy, her school OT (peeling oranges to improve hand strength and dexterity here):
The last month of school is always psychotically chaotic, but we somehow survived.
Ria informed her teacher that she would no longer be going to the same school -- she was going to go to one that is (a) quieter and (b) has less work. Her teacher agreed that that would be a lovely school (especially if it were in the tropics!), but that, unfortunately, all schools have noisy kids and work. Then Ria grudgingly agreed to come to the same school next year. Later, Ria threatened to essentially boycott her graduation ceremony, until she found out that she was going to 1st grade whether or not she participated in the party (she's concerned about the noise and work level of 1st grade), then she gave in and in the end had fun at the celebration. She's a funny kid, that one!
Iain persists in this odd feature of "getting more mature." I'm not quite sure what to do with it! He is taking ownership of the areas he needs to work on, and doesn't freak out when we point them out to him. Odd. I had a coworker way back when who said that ages 8-10 were his favorite, and I really can't fault him in that evaluation.
Ria is now taller than Iain by 1/2", and outmasses him by 10# (he's given up being annoyed by this, as it is clear that all people consider her to be freakishly tall...thus it really says nothing about his height). They also have completely different body shapes. He is slender, and she's built like a brick. This picture is terrible, with slouching and perspective making her look shorter, but you can really see how differently they are built in this one. At least, ***I*** can ;-).
We went to Santa Cruz boardwalk for William's birthday....here's Iain and I going up on the ferris wheel:
...and William and Tiger Girl as viewed from above:
OK, off to bed. I feel more honorable now, as at least there's a few pictures here for once!
