Swimming Skating and School

School is getting easier especially since the weather is so great in the morning. This means we get quality play time outside playing soccer, football, hockey , baseball and basketball. As soon as we can we jump outside and play which makes getting dressed easy and after a while of playing much easier to take a break and jump into the van to get off to school. With drink in hand he has no complaints.

Also, I think he's having a good time at school as well and has a few pals. Although, he really refuses to talk about school, you can ask him as many times as you want and he usually ignores the question or just doesn't even look at you, as if you weren't even talking.

Rarely does he say anything about school at all. We do know what he is doing at school since the schedule is online and the teachers keep us informed with a few emails a day these days about everything that is going on.

We even got a seperate email from the teacher describing how Charlie is doing and behaving. Things are great. We think his favorite class is gym since he does talk about the trampolines occasionally. And if you hint about classes he had during the day, say music, the most he'll do is just nod his head that he had that class.

Eileen and Charlie are off around 8:15 a.m. every day and he's there for until 11:45a.m. After that Eileen has his afternoons busy with activities. This week they met friends at a park, he started swimming classes and skating on Tuesdays.

He's getting real good at skating and since its just down the block from my work, I hop over there and watch him. He doesn't want to skate in reverse yet but forward he's doing really well. He's one of the smallest of his group, which is the medium group. There's a beginners and a more advanced group on the rink at the same time and he's in the middle.

He likes it alot and we typically go across the street to the diner for dinner afterwards.

His favorite part is of course the fact that they hand out suckers at the end and the young ones all like up for that.

Swimming today he did really well. The class is only 2 other kids and is done through the park district so its heavily subsidized. I think it was only $50 for 8 weeks.

The part he doesn't like is dunking his head. He made it known that he really didn't want to do it but I think through peer pressure it happened anyways. When I got home though he was excited to tell me how much fun he had.

We don't get much time at night anymore since he isn't napping during the day which means by 7 he's in bed and most often alseep. He typically gets a good 12 hours as well with a pee break in the middle of the night (depending on how much liquid intake before bed, of course).