BOYS!!!

Sorry, no pics to show this time. Just wanted to give you all a little update as to what's been going on the past couple days. Mike flew a helicopter down to Texas for some reason (I know he told me why, I think it was one of those times I shut my ears off halfway though..) Anyway, he made it OK and will fly back commercial tomorrow.

Mikey had his 3 year well child check. He is perfectly average, height and weight right at 50% on the growth charts. Good to know since he is such a slender little guy compared to all the other stocky little boys!

And Maria is getting picked on by ANOTHER boy!! In Kindergarten there was this one little boy who was quite enamored with her. He would smell her hair, tell her was going to kiss her on the playground and would call her his girlfriend. Drove Mike mad! Anyway, as young infatuations often do, it fizzled out about halfway through the year, perfectly harmless. Now the boys in first grade are getting to be not so harmless anymore. There was one boy in her class this year who would bug the snot out of her, pick at her, smell her hair, wipe his face on her sleeve, and once grabbed her arm and left marks.. which, thankfully, the teacher called me to to inform me of the incident and the boy was disciplined. He has gotten better. Now this week she has had to go to the nurse's office everyday after recess. Another boy in her class has taken a liking to pushing her down on the playground. She banged her head yesterday and today she came home with a scraped up elbow. Little bully. At first I thought it was just a harmless playgroud accident. Not anymore. He has targeted her and this is his way of getting her attention! Anyway, I had it my head that if it happened one more time I was going to talk to the teacher but when I got home from the bus stop today the principal had already called and left me a message. She informed me of the situation and assured me that discipline was being administered and if it happened again the little snot will have to spend every recess in the principal's office. Anyway, it is just a relief to know that the school seems to be on top of these things, and are keeping me informed when incidents happen! Why can't a nice, well-mannered little boy take a liking to her. I see trouble in the future!