School's OUT!!!

Finally. School is out for summer. Gregory is now a sophomore in HS!! Emi is an 8th grader, and an "upperclassman" at her school. Tessa is also an upperclassman now and a 6th grader. Patch is going into the 2nd grade and is much excited. Ben is going to be in the 4 y/o Excel program next year. Everyone is moving up and up and up. We got Patch and Tessa's report cards yesterday -- they both did very well. Patch is having a little trouble with his organizational abilities but other than that got an excellent report card, and got highest marks for his behavior. Tessa got all A's and one B+ on her report card! We are VERY proud of her!!! Well, we're very proud of both of them of course :) Gregory and Emi's report cards will be mailed and we should get them within the next two weeks.

So we begin our summer break... well, the KIDS summer break anyway! I'm hoping we'll be able to do a few things close to home and have some fun. We got "Big Six" passes to Six Flags for the three oldest kids and Ed and I in hope we can take them a few times. We're hoping to hit a few fun events and fairs and hopefully this rain will stop and we'll get the pool up eventually. The girls have plans to volunteer at the art studio and Gregory says he wants to spend the summer just relaxing after a pretty hard year of school where he was inundated with insane amounts of homework. I'm thinking we'll do at least one trip to the Bronx Zoo and maybe one to our local zoo too. I think it's gonna be a good summer :)