Will is Student of the Month for October!!!!!

I would be remiss if I didn't post about Will's newest achievement. It really is something! I got an email from his teacher the other day and she told me that Will has been selected as Student of the Month for his classroom in, are you sitting down?, self-discipline!!! I was shocked! Mrs. Berry even went further and told me that he's modeling the good behavior in class and is an example to those around him! What a new thing for me, being able to be the Mom of Student of the Month! And Will, when he read that email from his teacher was so happy. You think Emma has the million watt smile? That had nothing on his smile!! After all the struggling, to get Will to this point is so gratifying, dare I say, proud? (Sorry President Benson, sometimes you just have to use the word.)
More later, like the pictures from the assembly where he gets recognized. Oh, and did I mention he gets to have lunch with the principal, Mr.Weibel? Pizza delivered from the restaurant,no less! Lucky kid.

Emma was being crazy again today!

Thought you'd like to see the picture of Emma being crazy today. I went to a friend's house today and her daughter had these headbands that just aren't strong enough for her extremely thick hair. So Emma got them! Bonus for Emma, good for Colleen's house to not have them laying around unused anymore. :)
Emma promptly put the whole lot of them on her head and modeled for me. Here is the result.
Enjoy!!!

Will's classroom party

So I went into Will's classroom today with Tommy and Emma and an armful of cupcakes. I was suddently the most popular person in the room! I can't imagine why. :)
Per Will's request it was a yellow cake and chocolate frosting. Well, I was out of boxed cake mixes so that left me with Ms. Martha Stewart's website for a cake recipe. I must say I HIGHLY recommend her classic yellow cake recipe. Yummo! We were out of frosting, so I went to the Wilton website and used their chocolate buttercream frosting. Yum! It was a hit, as I knew it would be. Here is the picture of the cupcakes and some pictures of the classroom. All of the kids had fun. After school was "officially" over, Will took one to Mrs. Moore, his teacher last year, Tommy took one to his kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Seeley, and we gave one to the librarian, the principal, and Ms. Erica, Tommy's preschool teacher last year. So we had fun delivering baked goods to our favorite people in the building. Don't you wish you were one of them? Ha Ha Ha