Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2009-09-09

2009-09-09 47:16 (Kristen) I had a chat with Jamie's teacher this afternoon, after we went in to his class after school to find a piece of paper that Jamie thought he'd forgotten. I got to see Jamie's desk (he sits with two other kids at a round table by the blackboard, and one is a Liam! There are two Liams in his class, much to Jamie's amusement). She told me that Jamie was reading very well, and that she was surprised at what a good reader he was. I was, of course, proud. He's been tired by the end of the day, but has been bearing down and working as best he can with a minimum of goofy. I'm very proud. Jamie also stayed to eat lunch at school, but found the day a little too long that way, and wants to eat lunch at home tomorrow. He was definitely tired. Liam was tired too. Both boys woke up at 7:00, after climbing into bed with me in the middle of the night, and we were all up by 7:15. Waka came over to play with Liam, and he was C.R.A.B.B.Y. They eventually worked out some things to do that didn't involve the television or the DS. Liam is glued to it, and was attracting a fair amount of attention in the playground as he sat in his wagon, playing away, and oblivious to the rabid attention of a number of older boys looking over his shoulder. Waka and Liam painted, did puzzles, and had fun in the end. I took Liam to the library after lunch, but he fell asleep in the wagon for an hour, bent over a bag of books at first, but then on his back, his feet and head on the seats and his bum in the footwell. I had a cherry Italian soda ready for him when he woke up, hot and dehydrated, and mad as a hornet about being awake. He was happy enough when we picked up Jamie, who wanted to come straight home to play Super Mario 63. We headed home, and spent a quiet evening waiting for John to come home from New York City and the first night of Scrabble for the season. They fell asleep very quickly, surprise surprise.