Responsible

We are barely halfway through the school year and Wm has won Character Club for the second time!! This month's character trait was Responsible. Wm, along with a 4th grade girl, was chosen by his teaching team as best representing that characteristic! (I'm still not sure there wasn't a clerical error or something!) His name was on the morning announcements, he gets to wear a big button that says, "RESPONSIBLE," and he gets to have a special lunch with the principal. I sent him to school in a cute Christmas sweater that day and he got his grade on a big Reading assignment he has been working on. Apparently, his sweater was a BIG hit and he was the only kid to get a 100% on the Reading assignment - on top of getting Character Club, Wm came home floating on Cloud 9!! And now he's officially on winter break! He goes to Holiday Clubhouse Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday - then I am off with him the rest of break (until Jan 4). I'm actually off Wednesday too, but Steve and I are dumping him at Clubhouse to go off and PARRRRRTAY! Wm loves Clubhouse, so it's no hardship for him.

Steve got a new phone this morning, so we will see his face again in a couple weeks. And Schroeder had to go to the vet for a rabies booster (and had a thermometer stuck up his cat butt and his nails clipped), so he'll also go into hiding. He came home puffed up and scraggly, but a heap of wet food and a good brushing put him to rights and he's still loitering about normally - but the vet said the shot may make him groggy.

Steve asked Wm if he knew who was "the father of modern football," and Wm goes, "Michael Jordan?" Haha!