With apologies to readers outside the immediate family

This blog is going to go into kid news mode until Noel returns from Toronto. So here's the update:

• Archer seems perfectly healthy after a few days of mild fever earlier this week.
• A smart cookie of a practice teaching student gave Archer his choice of pocket calculators for his behavior prize today instead of the promised "pencil with dogs on it, including Ms. Bennett's dog."
• Cady Gray brought home a three-quarter scale outline of herself that we are supposed to decorate to represent what she wants to be when she grows up. Deadline: next Monday. Sounds like a project for Granny Lou and Papa!
• Apparently Archer didn't get to see the President's speech despite our signing a piece of paper saying he could.
  
• The kids' assessment of their school days? "Perfect."