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Elliott tried out for the cast for the first time! It was so fun and funny!!

The boys had a long weekend and I figured Jordan could use some rest so we went up to GB. We also celebrated four birthdays —- Kenzie (11), Rob, grandma, grandpa (70). and went to Kenzie’s and Cam’s flag football team.

3 adjectives: Creative, Assertive, Independent

What he does outside of school: Create “set ups” (e.g. dog hotel, Mcdonalds, etc), Build legos (from kit or free-hand), Art, Read with mom, Baking, YouTube (groan). He also plays some sports but doesn’t love it.

Strengths: Math. Art. Creativity. Usually pretty confident, self-assured

Areas to grow this year: Interest in reading — I think he’s at grade level, but doesn’t prefer to read.
Follow directions more quickly without as much redirection or reminding.
Develop greater empathy to understand another’s point of view.

Conor told me that I would be the best mom

If I kept all my same

Personality right now but added Leah’s love for dogs. 

He then went on to say that I’m an A mom. Not an A+ bc I don’t let him

Watch four hours of you tube a day. 

And he disagreed with my assessment that I’m a C- dog mom. He said I’m an E-  out of A-Z

he said Elliott and Jordan are A+
dog dads and that he is an A- bc he doesn’t take care of Laney as much  but for a 7 year old he is an A+ dog brother

and he said he and Laney look like twins

When the intern is ready for the boss to bring him breakfast…

Natalie has her first real job. Lifeguarding at the neighborhood pool. And Conor was willing to go today — and swim despite a broken heater — bc his Sissa was there.

quotes from Cman

“If anyone was drowning she would swim super fast but she would probably swim extra fast to save me”

“She also likes it when it get her pizza” (since he knows the Boys at a party here)

This was taken at 3:44 p.m. Elliott gets done with school at 3:40 p.m. most days and walks home from this direction. He’s been busy at musical practice this weeks, so she just waits…. not knowing that he won’t be home until later. Cute and a little pathetic. This story melted Elliott’s heart. And I think Nana’s.

We missed Natalie for Easter…. our former neighbor and my current colleague, Mary Cieplik, had Natalie over to her house for Easter, with her husband and their 3 grown kids. I shared a picture of Natalie’s first Easter on Mill with her…

And, 6 years later, she re-created it… one with just Natalie and the other with her two sons, Nate (a fellow ND great) and Alex!

My parents and the Marx fam also came to visit! A shout out to my mom for planning the Easter Egg hunt for the kids (saved me so much time!) The kids went to Battlehouse for laser tag on Friday too.

Elliott was so pumped to beat Aunt Becky in chess — she’s good competition, but he’s gotten a lot better this year

Happy 12th Birthday, Cam!

A funny convo with 7-year-old Conor last night….