Good morning on Fri, Dec 18

Hi,

Toby's last day of school.  I'm riding home at midday to collect him at 12.30pm.  We'll pick up my mother and Mike's mother and head to the airport to drop Mike's mother off.  Then we might find a cafe to celebrate the end of school.  I was hoping to go swimming at a beach, but the weather is very gusty.  So it might not work out that way.

We talked to some more architects last night and it is possible that we might ask these people to go to the next step.  We'll see if we like the houses they send us of ones they have done lately.  They made us feel quietly confident about it.

The spag bol was quite a hit, the Kittos will be pleased to know.  Toby asked for two lots of mince on his spaghetti.  Munched his way through the first lot and asked for seconds.  So, I declare his misadventure with spag bol a thing of the past.  Heheheheheh.

Roll on the weekend.  No swimming.  So we really have nothing on.  However, we have said yes to entertaining Kara on Saturday night and yes to a possible bike ride on the Hutt River trail somewhere.  Cool!

Oh - I forgot to mention Toby got his school report and he made us very proud.  They categorise many, many areas into three labels: needs improvement, average and excels.  Now, the real terms are something fancy that means everything sounds fine.  But it boils down to that in reality.  Toby got either average or excels in everything!  Reading and independent work are his forte.  He is in Year 3 next year and we think he has Mrs Mahoney again (his first year teacher) but we got a confusing note in his backpack yesterday saying parents have been in touch and something weird is happening.  Not 100% sure what.  Toby's Room 12 might be Room 7.  Not sure why.  Not sure about teachers.  Maybe some parents know more about the geography of the school and Room 12 is situated far from the other rooms of that year.  That is my first thought.  Hence the change to Room 7 (which, in my wee sheltered world of assumptions based solely on conjecture on my part, means it is closer to the other Year 2/3 room).  So my guess is, Toby will be in Room 7 with Mrs Mahoney and it'll be close-ish to the other Year 2/3 class.

Have a marvellous weekend.  See you for the short but very exciting week next week.
Love,
Angela