Friday

1. Last Sunday, we took the boys to watch Canyon Concert Ballet's performance of Peter Pan. One of our friends was in the show, and we joined her family to watch. Here's our crew during intermission:

Thank you, B, for helping me bring some culture to these boys of mine! :)

For what it's worth, they did enjoy the sword fighting and even recognized one of the pirates from karate. They felt there should have been more blood, as boys are apt to do. Noah won for aftershow comments, though. He (unlike his brothers) wasn't familiar with the storyline. As we were walking out, he declared that obviously the whole thing was a mass hallucination brought on by the medicine that the father gave Wendy, John & Michael before tucking them in. :) (And, looking back, I could see his point, lol!)

2. Speaking of Noah, he (along with most of the other 10th graders in Colorado, I think) took the PSAT on Wednesday as the required state testing this year. (We both appreciated that they switched from the weird PARCC testing from last year (that required like three days of testing over two different periods) to something that's actually useful practice for the future.) 

A couple weeks ago, he actually took the ACT, too. That one wasn't through school but was on the advice of his advisor for practice and because the advisor was concerned that Noah might not retain all of the algebra and geometry by his junior year since he's already doing calculus now.

Noah says he preferred the PSAT format, though he wasn't thrilled about taking it...mostly because (even though CEC cancelled classes for the day) he still had calculus over at Front Range Community College that afternoon. :)

Whew. Only three more weeks of classes for him this term.

3. These are my boys this morning. Unprompted, they began talking to each other on their feet-phones:

Don't ask me why. They're weird. ;)

(I did take the opportunity to do a small lesson on phone etiquette, btw. ;) Talked them through how to properly answer and end a call, since we don't have a landline and they so rarely talk on the phone. Just a good reminder.)