Superman getting ready for Halloween!
Superman with an outfit on this head. He looks like a preppy sultan to me.
Superman in school.
We have two services on Sunday mornings with a Sunday School time in between. I would prefer to go to the earlier service, but Hubby and I can't figure any way for us to do that without him having to get in the shower at 5:30AM. Realistically, if he has to get up at 5:30, he's not going to be at his best to preach at 9AM and 11:30 AM and teach again at 5:30PM. So, we have resigned ourselves to the fact that I may have to attend the later service until Superman is a little older. But, on the plus side, Mrs. Gail arranged for some baby furniture in our "Cry Room". We have a sound-proofed balcony area in our sanctuary for fussy babies and their parents. Superman and I end up there quite a bit. Sometimes he's just fussy and sometimes he can't understand why Daddy won't hold him (while he's preaching). The new swing in the cry room was a life saver last week!
Superman is tough to deal with on Monday mornings. He loves the attention he gets on Sundays and he thinks that there should be a crowd of people around to hold him on Mondays. He usually cries a lot during school hours on Monday. After listening to this fussing and whining all day Monday, Rosy and I got smart on Tuesday...we hauled his high chair over to the school room and let him have a seat with us. He loved it and we got done a lot more quickly and with fewer interuptions.
An update on III - School has really improved over the last week or two. We got Mid-Term Progress Reports at Roses Prep this week and he has 3 As, 3 Bs, and 1 C. We would like to see all As and Bs (really, I would like to see all As), but we understand how the C in Math happened. He takes a Math test every 5-10 lessons depending on the topics covered. So far, he's only had 2 Math tests for this grading period. One was a 102 and the other was a 66. Averaging those scores with his Quiz scores and his grade was a C. We have re-covered the material that was giving him trouble on the Math test, and his latest test grade (after the Progress Reports) was a 92. We expect this grade to be at least a B before the end of the term.
He has the starring role in the Christmas Play at his new stepdad's church. They attend church there every Wednesday night.
Hubby has started getting III up at 6AM each morning to have some study time before school. III then starts his lessons at 7AM and is usually done around 9AM. Then he reads and studies until 10AM. At 10AM each day, we administer any tests and quizzes for the day. This is a great plan for him because Rosy and I don't start school until around 8:30AM each day. This means that III is working with NO distraction for most of his school day. We've been doing it this way for a few weeks and his grades, attitude, and study habits have all improved. We've also thrown in a few afternoon naps that seem to help.
We also discovered that he may be suffering from hypoglycemia. Monday morning he was acting kind of "out of it" and went to the potty 4 times in 1 hour. I immediately assumed that he was either trying to skip his study time or he had developed diabetes overnight. I checked his blood sugars and discovered that it was 69. That's low! Not "dead" low, but pretty low for most of us. I know that I feel disoriented and confused when my blood sugars are in the high 70s. We have decided to start checking him mid-morning for a little while to see if this is a pattern. It could really explain why sometimes when you're talking to him, he really seems to be completely spaced out.
I'm working on matching Alabama outfits for Rosy and Superman. I decided to learn to applique. Hopefully they will be really cute and I will have pics to post soon.
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