How do you measure fun?

Around here we measure it by the amount of dirt on Sophia's face!

They wrestled together for a good 20 minutes before someone got hurt, and no, it wasn't Sophia although her bow was hanging by a thread!!

Both kids are getting better on their skateboards. Sophia can now ride standing, and she can even turn the board.

"Mom, if I can't figure out these jumps, I will NEVER be a professional skateboarder"!!!! Those were his exact words as I took this picture. I had to fight the laughter back! Although, a woman did stop by about 3o minutes sooner asking how old he was. She said she won't let her 6 year old have a board, but was amazed at how good Zack was. LOL I think she's one of those weak at heart moms! Zack is just all boy!

From the looks of this picture, Sophia had a VERY fun day! She looks like the dog on The Little Rascals with that ring around her eye.

This picture reminds me of what they might be like as during their early college years! I think Sophia will definitely out "party" Zack! She'll be dragging him back to the frat house!

It is TRUE love. She wants so much to be like him and just is all over him all of the time. He is super patient with her MOST of the time!

This picture was NOT posed! Both kids were absolutely wiped out by the time we were ready to leave the park. I was hoping so because I wanted them to be wiped out for the sitter!

Update on school and soccer: Zack got another 100% on his spelling test. He seems to have great rote memory skills. He also learned a poem for class and proudly shared it aloud. That is huge growth for a kid who is extremely shy by nature. Zack also scored two goals in his game today. One of the goals was hard earned! He actually dribbled the ball all the way up the field and in and out of multiple players before aggressively scoring a goal. I wish I had a picture of the look on his face as he looked over to see who was watching!

I will find out on Monday how Sophia is doing in school. I have shared with you some of her accomplishments but until I speak to her teacher, I have no idea where she stands in "comparison" to the average kindergarten student.

I can remember teaching first grade and having parents thinking that their kids were doing extremely well only to find out that they were actually in the lowest reading group and significantly behind in other subjects. This is not to say that those students were not showing incredible improvement. It just meant that they were not functioning at grade level.

I have to say that my fear is not that my kids are not functioning at grade level. It is that they are not doing the most that they can with the abilities they have. I really don't want them to skate through life. I would rather them work hard now, and enjoy an adulthood of bennies. That from one who had the potential to go Ivy League and didn't know any better.

How do you know you're old? When you get home from a "night" out on the town at 7:30PM having had a full "evening"! I highly suggest the movie "The Secret Life of Bees". It was a very good movie full of touching moments, but what I walked away with was the concept that NO love is perfect. Everyone loves the best they can and usually when the love is painful, it is because those doing the loving are doing so through a thick veil of pain. I won't go into why because I don't want to ruin the movie for you. Let's just say, it was thought provoking and Dakota Fanning was incredible as usual.

My book is calling... Another mind boggling Mary Higgins Clark novel! I love her books even though they're not smart. Although, I have read the biography of Marylin Manson and Heith Ledger recently.