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    1111 and MichelleC, you guys should do a FaceTime party!


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    1111 - We're Eastern (Ontario). A FaceTime toast at 9:26:53 sounds like a great plan! Send us a pm and let the good times roll.

    Can't get enough pi around here. For Halloween, he made a Pumpkin Pi (sorta like this, but with a 100 digits or so circling the pi: coolmomtech.com/2013/10/8-geeky-halloween-pumpkins-diy/). I'd given up on buying him anything for Christmas until I found ThinkGeek.com (fleece pi blanket with 413 digits, pi shirt with over 4,000....).

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    All the pi stuff is so cool. Love these kids!

    My seven year old took the SCAT yesterday. It was his first test ever. His scores are decent, I think... Their scoring isn't very well explained.. Anyway

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    It has been WAY long since I've added, but two quick ones come to mind.

    She's 5.

    Tonight she saw a dirt mountainous road in a movie and said "That road is treacherous!"

    Earlier in the week she argued for additional cookies; she is permitted 2 of these day, and had already eaten them. Her line of thinking?

    I can have tomorrow's cookies because it's already tomorrow somewhere else, and yesterday me would not get mad.


    Or something like that. It was yet another wahhht?? Stop, kid... just... ahhhhh.



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    MichelleC, sounds like a plan! DS is very excited to have someone share his excitement. I will PM you closer to the day so we can arrange!

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    MichelleC, I sent you a PM....:-)

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    DD4 is back in her ballet class after a long hiatus.

    She is probably one of the oldest girls in the class and behind everyone else since she's forgotten almost everything. I asked her if that's going to bother her and she replied, "I don't care about those things. I love to dance and I'm going to have fun no matter what!"

    It's one of those moments that made me hopeful that she would not be a stressed-out, miserable person who's sadly confused about what it means to be successful in life.

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    I just realised that my DD's SCAT scores as a 5th grader SSv=477 and SSq=499. are pretty darned good when you realise that she is actually just aa 4th grader age wise.

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    Pretty darn good as a fifth grader too! Congrats to her.

    ETA: I'm over the moon, so will come back and add one of my own. Getting dyslexic DD8 to read has always involved lengthy battles - she wouldn't even read the words on her own t-shirt. Last night, after we finished our reading remediation program, she asked if she could read me a picture book of poetry rather than having me do my usual bedtime read. Uh.... yes!!!!!!!!!!!! She whipped through it, huge smile on her face, clearly demonstrating that her reading level has already well-surpasssed a book that would have been a nightmare four months ago.

    Later, watching her Dad scan some news on his iPad, she asked if he was really reading that fast. Because, she explained, it takes her the whole evening to read a page from "Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods". That's the non-fiction, not the novel, and holy dense text, Batman. She's been asking for that book, by herself, in lieu of bedtime reading all week, but I gotta be honest - it. never. occurred. to. me. that. she. was. actually. READING. it! rather than looking at the pictures and imagining, as she has been doing for all these years. Daddy explained that he is actually quite a slow reader (probably dyslexic too), and that he fully expects her to be able to read that fast, and probably faster, with all the hard work she's putting into her remediation. Inspired DD went back for another page about Athena.

    OK, I'm blubbing up just writing this.


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    Michelle, that is FABULOUS.

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