Miscellaneous

I’m trying desperately to catch up with my blogging, so here are some random images I’m shoving into one post. First, while Bruce was on his most recent backpacking trip with Peter, I took the boys to the credit union to open “piggy banker” accounts. It took a little longer than I anticipated and they got a bit unruly, but luckily the bank staff saved the day with coloring books and crazy pencils to keep them busy.

At the bank

My favorite part of the day was seeing their signatures on the bank forms.

Signatures

Next, Ezra’s been doing some test prep the last few weeks as second graders participate in state testing for the first time. His literacy practice test came home about a week and a half ago and, as a self-proclaimed grammar nazi, I was horrified to see he missed this one.

STAR test prep

I’m pretty sure he knows how to properly use an apostrophe and that it does not, in fact, make things plural. He probably just wanted to torture me. Needless to say, we had a chat about it.

Last Monday Finn and I ran some errands during his sick day (he was coughing a lot), and one of our stops was Cottage. First, I have to say he looked huge in that setting. His former teachers all came to say hi; I think he was a little uncomfortable with the whole thing but he was relatively polite, if a little quiet. When we were ready to leave, we measured him in the little cutout with the tree.

Measuring up at Cottage

I remember when he started going to Cottage he didn’t even make it into the green part of the tree. *Sigh*

Last but not least, Ezra had two sick days last week when he came down with a random fever. Of course, even though his body was burning up, he felt like he was freezing and since it was a nice warm day, here was the remedy he came up with.

How Ezra treats a fever

Luckily, the fever didn’t last too long. In fact, his second “sick” day was really just a free day off since his fever was gone but we were obeying the 24-hour fever rule at school. It was a warm day and he couldn’t wait for Finn to get home. They filled up the [very dirty] pond and were happy as clams.

Filling up the pond

Happiness

Extra arms