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By Jeremy | September 26, 2006
+ First grade is starting to rub off on Judah. His newest favorite adjective: "mad." Everything is
mad good or
mad easy or
mad fun or
mad hard.
+ The transition back to school was mad hard for him, as he cried nearly every morning for about a week. But the emotional turning point came the first Friday afternoon, ironically when he took his first spelling test! He loved the feeling he got knowing that he knew almost everything that the teacher was testing, and he scored a 94. The second spelling test tripped him up a bit (boat, coat, and goat got him), but since he scored three hundreds on phonics, reading, and math he was pleased last week as well. Yesterday he decided that he actually likes school and was excited to get back.
+ Judah had his first sleep-over on Friday when his buddy Christian spent the night. When I got home they bumrushed me demanding that we play some "boy games" after dinner. "OK, we'll play ... um ... that really fun game ... uh ...
Medieval Torture Chamber." (You know, the one a therapist would love to probe deeper!) "Hooray! Evil Torture." "Uh, not exactly ...
Medieval torture." "Mid Evil Torture ... yeah ... Let's play now!" A dozen or so black and blues later (on me) and it was time to explore the "mysterious staircase" at the dead-end street down the road, and then for the boys to sleep in a pup tent in the living room. Saturday,
Everyone's Hero (fun film, especially for Yankee fans) kept us relatively calm before one more round of "Evil Torture," which ended with Judah's hand a bloody mess (not what you think!).
+ Judah nearly cried when we finished the seventh and final book in the
Chronicles of Narnia on Thursday night, partly because we were done with a series that he absolutely loved, but mostly because the last book ends with this:
"[B]ut the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story...."
He was so absorbed in the wonder of it all, not to mention the spiritual depth of everything (which he grasped largely on his own terms at his own pace), he wanted desperately to understand: "Why can't he write them? That's not fair!" The only thing that appeased him was imagining what might have come next, and a promise that we could start the
Lord of the Rings series this weekend. So we began
The Hobbit (the prequel to LOTR) on Sunday. Next up, if someone wants to buy him an early birthday (01/02/01) present, is
Little Pilgrim's Progress.
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