My First Parent/Teacher Conference

It's actually my 2nd if you count pre-school, but still important. We got Peter's report card a few days before my conference day and we were impressed. He has already 'MASTERED' several categories of what is expected of him by the end of the school year in his first month at school. His teacher gave some suggestions as to what we could work on (counting by 2s & 5s up to 50, formal writing and reading, simple addition & subtraction etc...). Pete taught him to count by 2s and 5s all the way to 100 in about 10mins today. He also knows how to count by 10 already. He has been reading formally for some time now, he can read a lot of the easy Dr. Suess books and easy to read books. We have been working on simple math for about 6 weeks now. We just have to work on formal writing, but other than that....I may start him on 1st grade stuff to keep him challenged. I feel like I've actually prepared him for school, its been a lot of pressure as a stay at home parent to accomplish everything! Peter of course, is just naturally excited about learning and inquisitive which makes my job easier!

The report card is on a scale of 1-4 (4 being already mastered). His teacher had told everyone from the 1st day of school, she normally doesn't give out any 4s. I found out she gave out a total of five 4s (for both A.M. & P.M. classes, about 40 kids) and Peter got 3 of them!!!

Since he did so well, we let him choose his reward. We went to Chuck E. Cheese on Saturday and then he went mini golfing with Dad later on (Kiersten had fallen asleep so the boys dropped us off at home first!).

On another note....we're finally able to get a new car! We have been trying for several months now to get the company lease program (its a great packaged deal), but Cerebus has been making a lot of changes at Chrysler & they've kept a lot of things on hold. However, we are very limited to what we can get. We wanted the Grand Cherokee Limited, but they are only offering 4x2 & we don't believe SUVs should come in 4x2s, only 4x4 or else what is the point in driving an SUV? The Durango was an option, but they only had white in what we wanted & we do not like white on a vehicle. We weren't interested in a truck. We finally were forced to settle on a Jeep Commander which we can live with. Its not our favorite, we wanted the 4 door Jeep Wrangler, but they are not offering that because it is a popular and selling vehicle right now. Maybe in the spring we can get a second car (the 4 door wrangler!). It will be nice to have a new vehicle, but we'll miss not having a car payment (we haven't had a car note in several years!).