Day 253: Party Like It's 1908

First of all, I just sat and watched basically the most exciting game 7 of any world series in the history of ever, and this fricken happened:

No, that's not photoshopped. Yes, that's the same Chicago Cubs that hasn't won in 108 years. 

Doc Brown was only a year off predicting this, after all. 

And I don't care if the Cubs aren't your team (they aren't necessarily mine), or if you don't like baseball, or if you don't even like sports. That was an incredible thing to witness. 

Luckily, I like sports and especially baseball so I loved it. Don't worry.

Well now that we can sweep that moderately history-book changing incident aside, let's move on to more important things.

Ever since Calen started school, talking has been an issue for him. As in he talks to much. As in HE TALKS ALL THE TIME. As in I'm not sure if he even breathes at any point during the day. 

And to think we put that kid in speech therapy. 

Anyways it was cute for a while but now that he's in 2nd grade it's becoming a problem. He's too smart for his own good, knows a lot of answers before the teacher can explain it, and has this thing where if he's shushed by her, he's physically incapable of NOT finishing his sentence. And if that's not enough, he's a complete class clown, falling out of his chair on purpose and army crawling to the drinking fountain and other stupid things that make 7 year olds laugh. Thus, at conference time in September, his teacher's report was mixed. He's a stellar student, but he is talking so much it's becoming disruptive. And, she's a cool enough teacher where she said "I don't want to break his spirit, but I don't want him to become unpopular as he gets older and being a class clown isn't cool anymore." So, her and I worked on a daily behavior chart, where Calen comes home with a post it note with a smiley face or frowny face, and Brad and I back it up with praise or punishment. 

Want to know what the best consequence EVER for a 7 year old is? Picking up dog poop. I mean it's almost magic how successful that punishment is. 

Since mid September conference, Calen has only received two or three frowny notes. 

Dog poop. I'm telling you. It works. 

And his hard work to control his mouth in class has really paid off, because his teacher nominated him for 2nd grade's student of the month for October. Calen had no idea and so he was surprised at the awards assembly this afternoon (Brad and I were notified by the school a few days ago so we secretly attended). He came home to a big Lego set and orange chicken (his favorite) to celebrate. After all, not everyone gets awards. This isn't one of those schools where every student in every grade gets an award by the end of the year. 

So proud of this kid and all the hard work he's done to turn around the school year. 

October students of the month! Pre-K through 3rd grade up in front (Calen 3rd from right)

This guy!!

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