Student of the Week

It continues to be frenetically busy around here.  This is not helped by the fact that Levi is now so excited about going to USA he is waking early (this morning 4.45am).  Tonight he had no trouble at all going to sleep.  After waking early and two hours of soccer training tonight, Levi was tired and trashed this evening.  I took another tick off his head under his hair again tonight, I think.  It was quite a big lump by now and I was pretty blinded by his hair.  I asked Levi if he had anymore that he thought were in his hair, but he thinks I have them all now.  The lumps left over are pretty big and itchy so I hope he is better than his Mum at keeping his hands off them. 

This week at assembly, Levi got Student of the Week for his school.  They have about twenty kids a week chosen from the whole school and he was very proud!  It says; 'For consistently being a respectful class member who has many fascinating ideas to share'.  I am sure he is exactly that!  I can only hope that he will be tomorrow after a very tiring day today!

Mother of the Year

Today I won a competition from the radio station that I listen to. I won 'Mother of the Year', well for the week anyway. I had written out the story about stealing from Levi's piggy bank to pay for his tooth fairy money. They loved it and I won $50. Win win!  So maybe I should give some of that money to the tooth fairy, because she was the one who earned it!

Levi is going through another stage.  Thank goodness it isn't a bad one.  He has started tying knots in everything.  I go into the room and am stopped by a long rope tied between the bunk bed and the double bed.  I try to untie it but in the dark it is just impossible.  I go to get into bed and there is another tied from the head of the bed to the foot.  I think that I have to enrol him in scouts or something, so that he can learn to tie knots that can actually be undone without cutting the rope. 

I had a really long day today.  I had a meeting at the home office at 3.30 which puts me home around about 6pm.  I got a call from the school just as I got to Corinda, telling me that Levi was in sick bay and he had a tummy ache.  I hate being that far away at that stage.  I asked why his tummy hurt and he said he drank a lot of water and ran around and started to feel sick.  Really? Anyway I got Levi picked up fairly early anyway because you can never be sure but was racing around on his bike when I got home!  I'm thinking his tummy was much better by then.

Our fish, Dibber (or Dabber, still not sure which is which) outlived his tank.  This is a miracle for me.  Most fish I have had in the past, barely outlived the week, let alone had the tank fail first.  anyway this fish is the Methuselah of fish and yesterday I bought him/her a new tank.  Levi wanted to help put it together and so we did it tonight.

Maybe that will make up for my Mother of the Year award!  If not at least he has something to complain about to his Psychologist when he is older!