End of September blog

Trevor's IEP (special ed) meeting went fine. Steve & I (Christina) are so far very pleased with Trevor's school & the teachers. Steve & Trevor been doing cub scouts every week. He is in his last year of cub scouts before coming a boy scout. Steve has been working many long hours & even goes to work on weekends also. Trevor's school tested Trevor on his reading level & it was low. 2nd grade 8th month (so basically start of 3rd grade level.) He is in 5th grade. How could have Virginia miss that, there is no way. Maybe Trevor was scared, nervous, etc. So they put TJ in a after school program "fast forword". He goes every day after school for an hour, for the whole school year. He has been going one week now. He said it is like playing a video game on the computer, but a learning game. Yesterday was the fall festival on base. Christina help for Steve's group 91 OGV. Christina help Helen (her husband Todd runs the 91 OSS group). Helen & Christina combine their spouses group. Next year if all goes as planned, Steve will move up to another group. He will be 2nd in charge of that squadron. Guess who will be in charge to plan & organize the fall festival....... Christina. (Well if the person who will be above Steve in that squadron is married, then her & I will be in charge. OMG that is ALOT of work. Plus our normal spouses stuff we are suppose to be doing. I want Steve to move up the ladder for his job. But that means MORE work for me to do. We really been enjoying the nice hot temps. (70-80) But we are scared we think we are done with the nice temps. Here comes the cooler weather. And maybe even snow soon. OH MY GOSH! LOL.

What been going on with us, last few week.

School is going fine for TJ. Christina asked him who does he like better 4th grade teacher from Virginia Mrs. McDannell or this year 5th grade teacher from North Dakota Mrs. Melton. (We thought for sure he would say Mrs. McDannell just cause he knows her better.) He said ohhhhh that is hard choose I like them both tie. We are glad he is adjusting to the new school okay. He has made a new friend Erik. He knows Erik from before school care & after school at the youth center. Erik is in 6th grade. TJ is in 5th grade. But they are about a month apart in age. Erik spend the night at our house last Friday. They had a great time. Steve signed TJ up for cub scouts last night. They start next week. TJ is getting used to the rountine. Steve & TJ get up about 5:00 a.m. They are out the door at 6:00 a.m. We live about 30 min from base. He goes to before school care 6:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. He goes to school 8:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. Then he goes to the youth center after school to hang out till Steve gets him around 5:30 p.m. Then they come home. Unless Steve has more work to get done, then he picks up TJ & goes back to his office to get more stuff done. Sometimes they don't get home till 7:00 p.m. or later. Makes for a very long day for TJ. Today we got a auto starter put in Christina's car. Let's hope that will help when the COLD winter hits here in North Dakota. We are # 4 on the base housing list. Next week we have an IEP (special ed) meeting for TJ.