Autumn Day

I am so grateful that it is Autumn now.  I am mostly grateful because now these days of yard work are only once a month rather than once a week.  Levi went to a friend's house to play and I worked in the yard discovering the hard way what happens when you hit a fresh cow poo with a Weed Whacker.  I quite like the work especially when Levi is happy at a friend's house and I don't spend the whole time thinking I am not doing what I should be. 

Before I let Levi go to Phonix's place, I made sure that he had done his homework.  He had to write sentences about his favorite pet or object.  He had to use eight adjectives.  It was really cute and a bit of a stretch!  If you can't read it, it says;

"Pippy is a kind dog.  She is a whitish brown.  She chases brown small sticks.  Pippy is warm and very snuggly.  She eats like a hungry pig."

Now that is something to keep for the future!  His writing is getting much better and I am now despairing less that he will learn to write.  Really he is already there.  After talking with the teachers, he now has a 'f', 's' and '5' taped to his desk so he stops reversing them.  He is still a bit affronted by the 5 being there as he feels that he has that mastered.  I told him that likely the teachers will take it away once they are sure he can do it without thinking.  When writing a '3' last week he reversed it and his teacher asked if he needed it on his desk!  Definitive No there!