I forgot to write in yesterday’s post about Tommy’s school stuff. We got a progress report and his teacher said she really enjoys working with him and he is meeting all the expectations of his grade level. She also said that in the PALS assessment they do at the beginning of the year he scored a 48 and the benchmark is 39 and he is reading at a pre-primer level. I’m not sure what “level” that means, but a week or so before she sent a note home saying that all the kids were reading at the same level, so I don’t assume that he’s behind or anything.

Tommy has also conquered tying his shoes. I realize that this is something he probably should have already known how to do, but all last year he had shoes that had a velcro close. He spent about 20 minutes working with his dad on figuring out how to tie his shoes and now he does it himself every morning before school. I only tighten them a bit and double knot them for him.

He’s doing pretty good in school, he hasn’t complained about it at all. He has homework every night and we read every night. He had fun picking out some new books from the store. Once he’s gone through these a few times and the mountain of other books we have We will look into getting a library card for him.