My big boy
Caleb is getting so big. I love that he goes to school so that we can work on his homework together. today he was able to do it on his own. He’s missed so much school this month that he had left his communication book that they use to share stuff w/ parents at school so we havent had it to fill in his reading chart or to get any papers we needed to get. So yesterday was his first day back in a while and they kept the book to add his homework to it, so today he came home with a ton of stuff that needed my attention before Friday of course, and Friday’s a half day even and we are busy tomorrow night so I knew I had just today to get stuff done.
He came home w/ 3 scholastic catalogues and I told him to go through and circle what he liked so that Dean and I could go through and pick some as Christmas gifts for him. It was funny the things he circled, I mean he cant read so he was going by the pics of the books to make his choices. he picked a lot of scholarly things, as in wash off writing tablet type books, pattern books, a magnetic math set, and an astronomy type set. he’s a smart kid and for most of his picks it was things that would benefit him education wise as well as entertainment.
he also was excited to tell me there was going to be a Christmas store and I wasnt sure what he meant til I saw the info on it. You fill out a card with family members/friends names and give them a budget of how much they can spend on each person. they go through the christmas store w/ an adult helper and chose christmas gifts based on their budget. they can chose to spend the budgetted amt or less, if less we get the money back he didnt spend. I asked Dean if he did this as a kid and he said yes, I dont remember having that as a kid. he is going to love going shopping! We gave him a budget for us, Bo, grandmom and his friend Abby just for fun. the info says the prices range from $0.50 - $10.00 and the majority of the gifts available are for small amounts of money, as in under $5. we gave him a total budget for everyone of $15 it will be interesting to see what he gets. I’m glad they do this but I’m also afraid he wont know what to get anyone. hopefully the parent helpers will be very helpful!! he takes forever to decide on things so we’ll see how it goes.
He seems so much older than he is, today when I told him the chocolate chip cookies i was baking werent ready yet he got frustrated and said “damn” and stomped away to wait not so patiently. I was like what! Dean was sitting closer and asked what he said and we had to remind him it’s not nice to say but I’m not quite sure where he’s hearing it. i mean I occassionally slip up but maybe I just dont notice how often it is happening that or his friends at school are saying things like this, which is very possible as well. He says so many big things and often has Dean and I hiding our laughs to keep from letting him know how darn cute his is, that and it’s not always appropriate but it’s still so funny. So my big boy is growing up so fast, and it’s kind of sad. then on top of that Bo is growing like a weed and sprouting all kinds of new talents/ words. All while this goes on around me Baby E is starting to show his/her prescence and spends a good part of the day kicking me quite strongly. It’s hard to beleive I’ll have two more kids to go through this firsts of school with, I look forward to it, but boy is it going to be expensive! 
