General life update
Still married, still at the same job.
Robert is in kindergarden. He is having a sufficiently unhappy time in kindergarden that he'll be switching schools next year; if he doesn't win any charter lotteries, he'll just be in the local public school, where he should have at least one friend from day care. (Robert is a stubborn and very active kid who already knows 90+% of what he's being taught, so his teacher has problems with him. She's burned out pretty badly, so isn't coping very well. This combines to make Robert the class problem, and even if he isn't with another teacher, the other students have learned to think of him that way, and he's learned that school is a bad place.) We may try to put him in the local Catholic school again (it's reputed to be pretty good in general, and he really liked preschool there), but only after a hiatus elsewhere. Or we may do online schooling at some point. Or we may win a charter lottery. We'll see -- one year at a time.
I have a second son, Thomas, who was born 11/9/2013. He's toddling like a champ, has 7 teeth (including one molar with this gap between the molar and the rest of his teeth), and is expressive but mostly non-verbal. He clearly understands words just fine; he just only uses a few.
Robert is in kindergarden. He is having a sufficiently unhappy time in kindergarden that he'll be switching schools next year; if he doesn't win any charter lotteries, he'll just be in the local public school, where he should have at least one friend from day care. (Robert is a stubborn and very active kid who already knows 90+% of what he's being taught, so his teacher has problems with him. She's burned out pretty badly, so isn't coping very well. This combines to make Robert the class problem, and even if he isn't with another teacher, the other students have learned to think of him that way, and he's learned that school is a bad place.) We may try to put him in the local Catholic school again (it's reputed to be pretty good in general, and he really liked preschool there), but only after a hiatus elsewhere. Or we may do online schooling at some point. Or we may win a charter lottery. We'll see -- one year at a time.
I have a second son, Thomas, who was born 11/9/2013. He's toddling like a champ, has 7 teeth (including one molar with this gap between the molar and the rest of his teeth), and is expressive but mostly non-verbal. He clearly understands words just fine; he just only uses a few.