The Espejos

Picture of the Week: Soccer season is here! I started out the week celebrating my thirty-second birthday. I got cupcakes delivered from Lisa, followed by the prettiest flowers from my mom, and rounded out the evening with a Founder's (and Mommy's) Favorite from Waffle Love. Tuesday was back to soccer practice where Perry hammed it up in her cutest jacket. Girlfriend was obsessed with her pockets and couldn't keep her hands out of them. Grace's class learned all about camouflage and made butterflies to hide around their classroom. Char Char learned more about dental health, and she continued her sugar strike (off and on) . She wrote about sharks, and I love how she spelled "oshin". We went to Char's practice on Wednesday, and we brought suckers to help us fight the freezing cold. The sunset was something brilliant, though. Lately, when we get in bed for the night, Perry tells me to sit ...

Picture of the Week: Final Soccer Games of the Season Monday afternoon we had the girls' Parent/Teacher conferences. They both went extremely well, and I could not be more proud of Gracie and Char Char. Char's was up first, and Mrs. Grant had nothing but good things to say about Charley. She's a quick learner, and loves to get really involved in whatever they are working on. As she continues to get better at sounding out words and reading, she's also doing well with her math work. We got a progress report that shows a '1' if the student is working on a skill and a '2' if the student has mastered that skill. Charley's report was almost completely filled with 2's, and they still have another six months of school to get all of them mastered. She's going to be our little smarty pants. Grace's conference made me so happy. She's struggled with reading since Kindergarten, and it's finally starting to click. She was a...