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Apr

Doing School with Nic

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Another bleak day of rain/mist.  I wish it would be nice again.  But then again, the rain sure does make me appreciate the nice days!  I got up and went for my run after Doug left for work.  I didn’t lift weights but I’m SORE!  You name it: legs, arms, tushy, chest… it all hurts!  No pain no gain right?!?!  Not that I want to gain!

Nicolas worked on his math this morning and then after a quick trip into town started his new Explode the Code.  He is a nightmare to teach right now but were just plugging through hoping it gets easier.  Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING gets analyzed.  Then if he doesn’t feel like doing it (which is most of the time) he just plain won’t do it.  I have seen him sit for hours working on a 15 minute assignment.  He breaks his pencils, tears up his pencils, spits on his page and then rubs a hole in it, tears his eraser off the pencil, screams, throws his pencil… and then dramatically gets it back, and oh can this story go on.  It is gut wrenching!  We’ve decided that he doesn’t get a “weekend” like the rest of the kids on Saturday and Sunday until he can learn to do school like a big kid consistently.  This last weekend Saturday and Sunday morning was spent in pure misery working on school with Nicolas.  This week has gone better, BUT not good enough for an almost 1st grader.  He’ll be doing school again this weekend. 

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