Fireworks and Other Momentous Occasions

This 4th of July we had our own little momentous occasion-it was the very first 4th that we could actually drag Monkey outside. His fear acute cautiousness has kept him inside every year up to this one, though in the last two years he did manage to watch the neighbor's fireworks through the window. This year we spontaneously decided to do some fireworks ourselves hoping to draw him out of the house, and it totally worked! Of course he stood there with his hands over his ears the. whole. time. but he was there-outside-and he still loved them. To quote his no-longer-fraidy-ness:

"America's birthday is the BEST. I love America. I'm going to give it a big hug!"

He is so totally adorable. The girls are also accomplishing a lot lately-The Bean has finally decided that she wants to pull herself up to sitting all by herself (as opposed to yelling "Mama-UH!" until I come and move her from laying to sitting) and is even now trying to pull herself up to stand. If she can start walking within the next month or two she will be the earliest walker of the bunch! Miss Baby Bug has decided to learn Mandarin with big brother and can now say more than a dozen words herself-not only can she say them, she can SING them...and will, at the first chance she sees. She LOVES to sing, and her tiny little voice is seriously cute. This weekend I will try to get it recorded so I can show you all.

I've not been doing too bad myself-so far all of my classes have a surprisingly easy workload, and I'm getting As in all of them. I've managed to turn in all of my assignments early, and have not once been in class and thought "excusemewhatnow?!". There is much celebrating that last fact.

Still I am the first to admit that no matter how well I am doing in school, my weekends are the very best part of my week because I get to spend them with my sweet, sweet babies (and the fantastic Mr. Hubby who makes our whole world possible). I hope you all are going to be doing something fun this weekend!!

Hurry Up and Wait

I went to the college today to take my placement tests (YAY!). The great news is that I aced them-I scored a perfect 99/99 in Reading which means I did even better on the college placement test than I did on the GED test. Because I got a perfect score I am exempt from taking Reading classes which, in true nerd form, I am actually kind of bummed about.

I got a 98/99 in Writing and all I can think is thank God-I would have had to hang my head in shame if I had failed that. Imagine a blogger/freelance writer who couldn't write!

I also didn't fail Math. That is the only standard I can set for math as I am truly terrible at it, but I'm pretty proud of myself for not having to take remedial non-credit classes. Besides, lawyers don't use a heck of a lot of math anyway unless they are going to be tax attorneys-which I have no intention of being.

I got all of my financial aid paperwork done and I was all set to go, and then came the bad news-while FAFSA can get my paperwork done in a week it takes my college two whole months. Basically that means that I don't get to go this quarter unless I can pay for it out of pocket (and that is totally not happening). So now I get to ready-set-wait for the Summer quarter. I'm so excited, if I were a lap dog I would be piddling on the floor right now. Unfortunately I am a human so I'm just going to have to wait as patiently as I can for the next quarter to come around.

Come on, June-hurry up and get here already!