anyway today wasn't very excited or insightful. we woke up late for school and both kids were cranky and uncooperative and just generally crappy all morning. bea's been taking stanford testing all week so i want to make sure she has a good night's sleep and a good breakfast...i'm lucky she got to school with shoes on. she keeps getting lost in books. specially, three books that she reads over and over and over and over again. it feels weird to fuss at her for reading but she gets so focused on it that she has trouble doing anything else. she will just stand there and read. there can be activity all around but she's just...standing there and reading. i don't know how to balance read=good with read=good sometimes and bad others.
at home i tried to get her to do homework which she did and did quite well. she wanted to write a book which usually entails folding a hundred pieces of paper into book form, writing one page and abandoning forever. after page one she got up to go play and i told her that she needed to finish. i removed most of the pages and left her with a total of 7 back to back and told her to just manage those. she wrote a great book with a few pages of a story and then illustrations. it took a few reminders to stay on task but what she finished was finished. she was proud of it and brought it to girl scouts to show her friends and i think she is starting to maybe find of sort possibly grasp the benefits of completing a task maybe.
otherwise we went to girl scouts where bea is decidedly NOT the shy thing who started the year but is the sort of obnoxious, loud, farts-are-funny girl. she has a hard time staying on task but right now i'm choosing to celebrate the victory of her overcoming shyness to worry about fixing the behavior. she wouldn't talk the first few meetings. she would just sit in a corner and cry and i spend every meeting wondering what about this experience was drawing her back for more. i'm glad we stuck with it and it is nice for bea to have a group of girls who are more or less forced to be friends with her. she has 12 girls that are bound by a code of scouty ethics to be nice to one another. also i get to talk to other moms and bitch about our children and compare tattoos. it isn't a bad life.
i haven't heard back from the special ed coordinator but i've asked bea about her tests and she reports that she finishes them, that she doesn't leave her seat without permission, and that she doesn't feel distracted. so. that.
i leave you with excerts from today's novel: Angel the Squirrel. I can't turn the images because i am lazy. enjoy.
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