The McMahon Family

He came home from school with his pants like this.  Boys.

I am having so much fun seeing Mac in his school year.  He has had homework, a program, school pictures, field trips, projects and now…a progress report.   I was amused and slightly puzzled when he received an ‘Excellent’ for staying focused on a task and in arts and crafts and “Good” in all other areas.  I mean, he isn’t exactly the most focused 5 year old and always struggled with arts and crafts, as I’ve shared previously.  And just ‘Good’ in all the other areas?  His teachers are always ‘bragging’ on him and saying how smart he is and well behaved, etc…Are they just saying those things…why?  Anyway, while I was happy about his two excellent areas and a little bummed that he wasn’t excelling in more areas, I was glad there weren’t any  Needs Improvement areas!  Then I turned the card over.  Turns out “G” means he’s mastered an area and “E” means it is an emerging skill!  So he was perfectly fine in all areas but two!  That’s more like it!!

Then I read the comments section.  I decided to read it to Mac and you should have seen his face glow. 🙂

“Always tries to do what is right.”  I have to say that this is one of my goals in parenting.  To get my children to want to do what is right, not just because they have to, but because they want to.  I’m so pleased that Mac seems to be grasping some of that.

We’re so proud of him!

Letitia, Kennedy and Ella came for a Christmas visit last week.  While I fell sick and missed the last day with them, we had a blast while they were here.  The boys fell instantly in love with the girls and had a great time playing and hanging out.  It didn’t hurt that it was mostly at Grandma and Grandpa Rapp’s house and Grandma had a bunch of new toys. 🙂  The girls were slightly amazed that Uncle Shannon looked a lot like their daddy.  They kept staring at him, poking at him and telling him he has chubby cheeks ‘just like Daddy’.  Shannon, of course, defended their Dad’s (and his) cheeks even pulling up pictures for them to look at.

The second evening we showed up, Shannon couldn’t come due to band practice at church.  Ella promptly asked me, “Where’s that guy who looks like my daddy?  Isn’t he coming?”  She wasn’t thrilled with my answer.

We had fun hanging out at the house, we got to show off our house and give them their birthday and Christmas presents from last year (that’s a whole other post!)!  We went to FCC’s indoor playground, enjoyed presents and took them out to eat at one of our favorite places: El Toro.

The boys are still asking when we get to see them again.  Thanks, girls, for making the trip.  We love you and can’t wait to see you again. 🙂

We had a nice party and the one picture I took didn’t include our guests!  Sad, I know.  Anyway, I did light candles for the first time in the house! That greatly amused the boys and made me extremely happy. 🙂  Patrick keeps asking me to ‘make fire’ in the holders.  I thought they were finally old enough, but they couldn’t leave them alone for the ten minutes they were lit before bedtime.  Sigh.  Guess we’ll keep trying every once in awhile.

Mac and Daddy on the Move.

Would you believe this is food for only four?