Busy busy day!

Today will be busy- hopefully we can get the sprinklers done, and the border dug out so we can lay the sand and tamp it down in order to lay the border. Cameron has a soccer game at noon, and tonight we are going to a wedding reception for some friends of Jim's- ought to be fun, but man that's alot of stuff to fit into one day!

Last week was a pretty good week. Ethan had 2 huge tests at school- a math and a reading test. The math test was to practice for the upcoming math TAKS. Ethan got a 98. Yep, you read that right. ALL the teachers were so proud of him. He has been in math tutoring all year, and one of the teachers said something about him getting booted out of that class and he was really upset. He loves math lab! Sooooo, his math teacher is pulling some strings to keep him in there. I guess he likes the one on one time. The award that comes with getting a 98 on his math test is that he does not have any more math homework for the rest of the year! Yeah!
His reading test went well to, I think he got an 80- not enough to get him out of any homework, but it was 17 points higher than the last reading test.
We are still having some issues with teachers- I noticed the other day that Ethan's grades (we can check them online) were all 83 or above, EXCEPT for the 2 classes he has with a specific teacher- both of those grades were 50!!! So I contacted her asking what to do about that, and she was helpful and sent home all his 'missing' work- he came home and worked his butt off, finished all the work, sent it in, and then when we went to school for Open House on thursday we got to take home a folder of his work. Inside, I found 2 of the assignments that she had made him take home- they were not the exact ones though- they had been done before (in class) and they were graded. They were never even missing! I am so pissed. I emailed the teacher about it and she said 'oh, I don't know what happened- he never said that he had already done them' But shouldn't SHE know that SHE already had them and that they weren't missing???? She didn't even offer to give him extra credit for the work he had done. Ahhhh- but at least no more school bullshit for the next week and a half!