Well, the first week back at work (parents) and school (kids) has been sort of uneventful—and this is a good thing. Brandon managed to go the whole week without getting any “cubes” from his teachers. A “cube” is a block of time at recess that he doesn’t get to play, and for a while he seemed to get them every day. Brandon is doing great academically, but he is a normal little boy in that he’s got some excitement & self control issues that he has to outgrow. So we work daily on this at home, and luckily he has supposedly the strictest teacher to help nip this in the bud at school. He did, however, get in trouble with the bus driver on the school bus for smacking the back of the kids' seatback in front of his (not a huge offense--he has done far worse before). Nick brought home his first "bad note" from daycare--he was dragging little girls across the room by their hair, then shrieking at his teacher when told to stop. As I said in the Christmas Letter, he is the family bully. Tyler, ironically, has been the model child this week (not normal). He did good on all his pre-school working papers, meaning he's paying attention during story-time, etc. Last weekend he was learning to play his video games that he got for Christmas. Big brother Brandon is always at his side to coach him through the hard spots and even completely take over upon request. And sometimes when not requested…but that's how older siblings operate.
As for us parents, we survived the work week. I am so friggin' happy to be able to sleep in tomorrow, and I know Bryan is. Poor Bryan wakes up at 4 am to go into work when he's on day shift. He doesn't need much sleep to operate anyway, but it still takes a toll.
We hope all you worker-bees out there had a good first week back, even those of you who work at home taking care of the kids.
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