We sneaked out to North Beach for a quick swim while Dave was at work Sunday afternoon. Dad and Marilou had been here before but I wanted to show them a little walk we do to look in tide pools as well. We expected the water to be too cold, but it really wasn't. The boys romped for over an hour, jumping off ledges and singing into pretend microphones.

Last week was pretty busy and this week is looking that way as well. I was on work deadlines last week, took preschool buddies of Ben’s for a hike along with Dad and Marilou, bagged a trip to the commissary on the way back from a peak at the beach, parent-teacher conference, Pa’ina night at the school (nearest translation I could find is “picnic” dinner) with lots of great performances by the kids (hula, percussion, chorus). Sam got excellent marks on his academics – I think top marks on about 30 indicators. We are working on his attention to detail and focus – he tends to not dive right into his workbooks and prefers to look around and daydream or think about things 🙂 Who wouldn’t, right? He is doing two-column math in his head so the workbooks are not very interesting to him. They were too easy two years ago and I couldn’t get him to do them. So the teacher is willing to find more challenging material to engage him. And we are helping Sam understand that sometimes in life, you have to “show that you know” before you can move on to other stuff. Another busy week this week with a 500+ page book manuscript galley due in today that needs to be turned around in 72 hours. Whew!