A quick update

Hard to believe that it's November, and Thanksgiving is next week. And before you know it, Christmas will be here. Things have been going good. Jim has really been enjoying school!  Seems to be learning lots, and he's getting better with reading!!!!  It's amazing to see how far he's come in just the first couple months of school.

We had parent teacher conferences the other day. We got a great report!!!  She really didn't have a bad thing to say. She was very impressed with his drawings, I loved looking through is drawing journal!  They do an assessment, and have a benchmark for where they want them to be. I think it was 65, and Jim scored 130+!  (He recognizes letters, beginning letter sounds, ending sounds, rhymes, just to name a few of the categories.). She also said he's a very friendly person, and his classmates look up to that. Mark & I were both very impressed with his good report.

It's so cute to see him pass his classmates. We will cross paths when we walk over to the playground after pickup. Everyone is saying 'bye Jim' giving 5s, giving hugs!  Really does show that he's a likable person!

Mark, Ben, & I went and had lunch with Jim on Veteran's Day!  Mark had the day off, and the school had their Thanksgiving feast. Was fun to see the lunch room environment!
********************
Halloween was a lot of fun!  It fell on a Saturday this year. We went over to Steve & Renees first, had pizza for dinner and then went out trick or treating. The boys loved it!  Made it to more houses this year. And the boys came home with a ton of candy!
********************
Enjoyed a visit from Grandma & Papa after Halloween. They were in Pittsburgh so they drove here on Sunday & stayed until Wednesday. The timing was perfect because Jim had Monday & Tuesday off!  We went out to dinner to Southside Monday night & Ben was not feeling well, and proceeded to get sick in the parking lot. So I was a little bummed out Tuesday plans (donuts & Old Town) were cancelled. But we all had a great time hanging out together!  Lots of time spent outside.
********************
I'm updating this on my phone, and I'm hoping if I get around to it I will add some photos to this post. We shall see though.