Last Day of School

This was Spencer on his first day of school for 2nd grade. What a cute kid!!!

THIS is Spencer on his last day of 2nd Grade with his AMAZINGLY wonderful teacher Allison. 

What a difference just nine months has made!? He looks so much older now and he has learned so much!!! I have to boast about his teacher that he had this year, she was amazing. Spencer started off the year a little rough, and she was worried about it. I had to go and see her a few times, then realized that she had no idea what Spencer was going through. So the next meeting we had at the beginning of the year, I let her know that the first day of school he was just coming from living in a hotel for a week, we moved into our apartment on the first day of school, he had NONE of his stuff for the past 4 months, and we were just moving back into the United States. She heard this and everything made sense. She always has been willing to help us push him more, and to help some odd habits he has. Plus she also thinks he's just the sweetest boy ever (yes he will not like I said that, but o-well).

She also had a way in which whenever she spoke Spencer was hooked. He would come home and tell us all that Allison said that day, and all that he learned. He loved learning from her, especially with the bird study they did at the end of the year. Spencer is a master bird finder, watcher and listener now. It's pretty cool to watch him go outside and hear a bird and say "Did you hear that? That was a house sparrow!" Or see a bird and figure out which one it was, especially when Grandpa Price called him to ask him about a bird he saw outside the window of his living room. And guess what? Spencer figured it out!!!! 

Spencer's 2nd grade year here in New York has gone by quickly and he has done well, as his report card showed us. YAY!!! Favorite subject this year: Math (we don't know where that came from). 

We now have a THIRD grader!!