The almost sleepover and conferences

Spencer had a friend spend the night last night - sort of. Zack ended up going home at 10:45 but he came with every intention of sleeping here. Spencer and Zack have talked about it all week at school. They are best friends, they sit beside each other in class, they play together at school every day and here all the time. We had frozen pizza for dinner and milk and cookies later, they played football outside with Brenden and then played all night until 10 when I tucked them in. Then Brenden came downstairs telling me Zack wanted to go home and Brenden had told him to go ahead and get his stuff together and he'd help him. When Zack came downstairs we could tell he was scared because he didn't say a word to us he just shook his head. So I drove him home, which is down the street two blocks. We had him here a few weeks ago until 9pm trying to get them ready for the first sleepover because he kept asking if he could stay over and we knew how it goes from Brenden's first attempts when he was this age. So we'll give it another try in another 6 months-1year.

We had parent-teacher conferences this week at school and Spencer's teacher didn't even know the Spencer and Zack were best friends. They sit together but are very quiet and don't talk when they aren't supposed to. She said sometimes when she sees other kids talking in free time she'll see the boys whispering to each other that's how good they are. She said if she could have a class full of Spencer that would be perfect. When I went in saying he certainly doesn't talk alot like Brenden does he (she was his teacher in first grade too) she said "Spencer talks?" kidding of course. But she said he's just so quiet and polite and follows the rules to a T. He got all S+'s on his grade card. She called him her Super Student. That's so awesome. And since I'm mentioning Spencer's grades I can't leave out Brenden. He is doing excellent as well. His teacher said he is very good in class and he is doing above average work for fifth grade. He had all A's and B's. His gym teacher gave him an A+ with a mention of liking his project she had them do because it included a picture of her son, Dallas Cowboy player Bobby Carpenter. So as Pam told me yesterday, I'm reaping the fruits of my labor in raising good children. I couldn't be prouder of both of them.