My Little Devil

Whenever I see these faces it reminds me of the Paul Simon song, "Loves Me like a Rock" It plays through my head, "Oh my Momma loves me, she loves me, she get's down on her knees and hugs me. Oh she loves me like a rock." I don't know why, I guess cause I love them. These pictures are from Linvilla Orchirds where we went yesterday. I have been going to Linvilla since I was a kid. I have vivid memories of my Mom taking my brother and I there after school. We would play in the hayloft (which I don't think is there anymore). We would play on the big rusty tractors (which are also not there) and look at the animals and pick pumpkins. I like to try and uphold this tradition so yesterday I picked them up after school with some friends and my friend Amy and we all went. They had a great time and Rachel and Hannah and Rachel's sister Erin and her two boys. A big crew. They went on the Witch Hayride and had marshmellows on the fire. It was fun.

When we got home, with the devil still half smeared on his face, Chase asked me if he could get another earring, up further on his ear, maybe a hoop. I said, "Chay, come on, I am trying to let you be you, but you are eight. I have to draw the line somewhere." He kept saying, "But it would look so cool." I didn't cave though, I was proud of myself. He was really trying to wear me down. I ended with, "Ask Daddy." Then made a mental note to make sure Marc tells him no.

Homework

Homework has a love hate relationship in my house. I really don't like homework, especially Chase's because it is frustrating. He doesn't feel like doing it, there is always something better to do than homework. So we struggle, he does it once really sloppy and half you know what'd. I look over it, am mortified of the thought of him actually turning this in, make him do it again, he is annoyed, it's a vicious circle. He has come up with some stellar reasons that he shouldn't be doing his homework. The most recent was last weekend when we were trying to get his science done. After hemming and hawing and huffing and puffing and carrying on about it, I said to him, "Really Chase, what is your problem? Why can't we just get this done?" He says to me with the most serious face and voice, "Well Mom I really just don't feel right doing homework on a Sunday." It just didn't feel right. Hmm. Anyway, fortunately his lovely teacher this year does not give a whole lot of homework. Which for me is a blessing, although some parents on back to school night were actually questioning her on it, which completely annoyed me. Speak for yourself! I wanted to scream out. But I didn't. His teacher does send home work they have done in school so we can look it over. His last math paper came home and I was reading it and quite proud because it had a 100% on the top of it. I came to question three, a word problem. It was a two part question, the first being the problem, which he solved, and part B. which was the How did you figure this out? part. Chase's answer was, "I figured this out because I am really good at math." Well done.

Busy busy busy

I can't believe it is already the 20th of September. Time is flying since we have been home. It seems like everyday is so busy with school, friends, activities.
Saige and Chase are both very happy with their teachers. Chase love's his because she doesn't give any homework. I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing. We have back to school night tonight so we will see how it goes.
Chase is busy with soccer. He loves his team. They are doing so well, they haven't lost a game yet. They are fun to go out and watch. For his last game we stuck his mohawk straight up and colored it green. That's the color of his team. I will post a picture of it.
Saige is still getting over her ankle injury. Today we have the last check up and if they say she is fine I will sign her up for whatever activities she wants to do. We had to pull her off the soccer team because of it, I don't really think she cared to much.
We had one more last road trip last week. The kids had the day off from school and we went down to the shore. My brother Chris had a house down there and we spent the day on the beach. It was gorgeous out. It has been so beautiful out since we got home. I feel so lucky like we missed all the bad weather.