I almost forgot...

to praise Austin for doing so well in school. Yesterday Charley and I had a parent teacher conference where we discovered several things....first that Austin is reading way above grade level, hooray! The class should be between a 12 & 14 and he is at a 16. Which is where he should be at the end of his first grade year. Also his writing is slightly above average and his math is pretty much on grade level. The teacher said he is just a bit under where he should be for math, according to the assessment they took the other day. However, the errors that he made were very common amongst his classmates and she thinks that some of the questions that were missed were a little misleading for him and the rest of the class. So I am willing to bet that he is on grade level if not a little bit past it. Because we know that he knows that information. Well congrats to my Aussie, we are so proud of you!