Collin

Fridays at school are dress-down days and the kids can wear jeans with their graphic ALA t-shirts.  Collin, upon finding his favorite jeans were holey (those knees!), asked me if we could get him new ones.  Lucky for him the Santan Mall is just two minutes away so we went after dinner and I got to have some one-on-one time with this little guy.  It was so fun to see all the different styles he likes and dislikes, like hi-tops - he liked those.  He was so sweet to pick out outfits for his sisters too, even though we weren't shopping for them.  After we got home we watched "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" which both he and Allie thought was so funny.  Those two have a really good relationship - the first thing he did when we got home from shopping (or from anywhere) was find Allie and show her all the stuff he bought.  They like to play Legos and school together.

Collin also just recently started his 2nd year in Let's Play Music, and although it's still hot out there, soccer season has started again.  He lost his blue soccer ball right before his first practice and almost went with Allie's pink soccer ball.  He didn't want to have anything to do with that! so we borrowed one of the coach's extra balls.

Collin likes school.  I found out the 2nd week of school that he is in the accelerated sections for reading and math.  He says school is easy - we'll see!  He is always so happy to tell me how many reward bucks he earned for the day (they call them hopper bucks at school) and what happened at school.

He is so good at packing his own lunches in the morning and enjoys reading picture books (more than chapter books, although he reads those, too -- favorites are Junie B ?! and Magic Tree House).  He has amazing attention to detail - and not just when he's building with his Legos.  One of his jobs is to wipe down all the glass doors and mirrors in the house. He came to me one Saturday and said he wasn't doing a very good job at it because they were still streaky. I checked and they weren't streaky, just missed a couple of small spots. He follows thru his "jobs"; he just goes down the chore list, checking off each one as he completes it - a totally different system than Allie's (favorite chores get completed first for her)!