The beginning of the end...

Have I mentioned what an awesome kid CW is?  And how much of an outstanding person she's going to be?  The girl GETS references.  She's happy to watch OLD movies and tv, thereby expanding her frame of reference.  She LOVES watching Science stuff on TV.  She's creative.  SERIOUSLY creative.  And not so Clueless anymore.  She's pretty damn self aware for her age.  And she's no longer cool with her nickname here.  What to do?

I'm not sure if things have calmed down, or we've simply gotten used to the wackiness that is the two of them and not much stands out as utterly insane anymore.

Clueless Wonder is in Middle School now (7th grade), and is doing well in all of her classes.  So far bringing home nothing lower than a B, and she's in all Honors Classes.  That could change, we'll see.  :)  She's a brown belt at Kim Studio now, one more level of brown to go before her Black Belt.  We're looking at sometime next year for her Black Belt Test, either February or August.  She's getting damn good at her art work - again, I'm her mother, but just...wow.  She now has a set of throwing knives up in NJ to work with when the weather is better.  She's doing well at Air Rifle, still prone though.  Still refusing makeup, but IS starting to focus on making her hair behave and look nice.  The scary part is that I'm pretty sure that she's ahead of a lot of the other kids in her grade with regard to hygiene.   She thankfully is still REALLY open about stuff, and doesn't hesitate to ask questions, including but not limited to, "What do condoms look like?"  Thank god I had one in the house to show her.  SHe's learning under duress and protest how to clean bathrooms (she's really not very good at it - She was supposed to clean my bathroom for Christmas but nothing seemed clean, and she finally admitted to only having wiped down the toilet - which also showed no signs of having been cleaned.)

Screaming Genius is in First Grade, also doing pretty well.  He got tapped for Advanced Academic "pull-outs" by his teacher - I figure that it wasn't *just* that, as his teacher said, "He's got a LOT of background information in his head, I figured he'd be great for that," but also to get her some time in the classroom without him.  ;)  He apparently REALLY does not appreciate his classmates talking over the teacher and tries to shush them.  Again - there are RULES dammit, and if *I* have to follow them, so do YOU!  He finally tested a couple of months ago (October?) and is a Green Belt now, broke his first hand board (shocked the hell out of himself) and is MUCH better in class now.  He too, is having fun at Air Rifle, he delights all of the big girls (and the coaches) there mostly because he has fun and becomes adorable as a consequence.  They all come off of the range and giggle to us about how cute he is...Heh.  It's the only thing keeping him alive, really.  But only some days.  He recently managed to wander from Transformer videos on Youtube into sexy lady racy picture videos.  (I think that Megan Fox was the pivot point there, having both been in the Transformers Movies AND being a sexy lady.)  So he lost his computer privileges, then he did something this week, and lost his tablet privileges, and TV...then he mistreated one of his Christmas presents and lost that as well.  It's a good week.

Speaking of Children behaving differently with different people...

Got a note from my mom this morning.  The kids have been up there in NJ with them for 2 weeks now.  I received ONE phone call (and it was a happy one), and Matt got none for the entire time.  We got a letter from The Boy last night, written on my dad's old company letterhead that made both of cackle, but otherwise nothing.  Here's the roundup:


"Okay, so I didn’t do anything in Chore Wars.

Clueless Wonder: 

Mowed the lawn three times

Helped with yard clean up twice

Emptied dishwasher every day

Didn’t give anybody any sh*# ever

Helped cook several meals with Granpop

Ate some of anything we put in front of her and did not throw up.  (It was close once).  :)

She is learning MS Smallbasic on her own.  (Has done some programming and is more than halfway through the introduction to the Smallbasic book).

She watched all of the Firefly series, Serenity and the 10 year reunion.  Loved them all.

At Carlucci’s the both loved the Focaccia bread with sauce on it.  They didn't like the puff bread with lots of garlic on it.

The both loved Golden Corral and were happy to go again.  SG ate a hushpuppy and tried caramel and hot fudge with vanilla ice cream.  Liked the fudge.

CW loved the lemon pie-lets.  She had them both times she went.

She helped make taco filling and they both ate it with either sour cream, mild taco bell sauce and/or cheese.  They had them in toasted taco shells.

SG now eats his hot dog with yellow mustard.  He tried pickle relish and doesn't dislike it.  He also ate a cheese burger without knowing it until he was half done.  He ate the rest no problem.

CW made egg salad and tried it.

They both tried macaroni salad and potato salad.

CW helped make tomato sauce.  They also made pizza and ate it.

At the Chinese buffet CW tried all of the chicken offerings and ate the salmon and didn’t even remember it.  She tried the crab wrapped in bacon and ate half of it.

SG ate something, probably chicken fingers.

Screaming Genius:

Cleaned up after himself daily

Did whatever he was asked

Helped with yard clean up twice

Did not mow the lawn

Didn't give anybody any crap ever

Started a monthly chart re wet/dry diapers

Ate some of anything we put in front of him

He eats dried apricots, oatmeal cookies and Raisin Bran cereal with extra raisins and of course the fiber bars.

We went to the movies twice.  We saw Spickle me II and Monsters University.  We went to the Aquarium in Camden and had a ball.  We went to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell and more but it was tooooo hot so we just saw the Liberty bell and the Mint.  When they come back after Christmas we are going back to Philly to see more stuff.

They also had lots of down time to play and chill.  All in all I think they had a good time.  CW probably didn't read enough but I will leave that for you.:):)

Hope you had a good time and didn't have to pay tooo much for whatever Matt broke.  Oh, by the way, the water dispenser cannot be fixed on our fridge.  

See you tomorrow!

Love you,  Mom"



Wow.  I'm pretty sure that the body snatchers got my kids...