This is not an April fools joke I promise...

I am soooo proud of Benjamin and Ella! They both had GREAT report cards

so we had a fancy pants dinner to celebrate that!

Then I was invited to the awards assembly to watch Benjamin receive an Enthusiastic Learner award.



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while there he also got recognized for the honor roll



then when I got home I was devastated to get this picture in my email : 

 (yes that is Ella wearing a Doors T-shirt -cuz she's cool like that)

Ella had also received an Enthusiastic learner award in her grade's assembly but I had not been told about it. (well actually I got a generic email from the principal saying that each grade was having an assembly and that my kid was getting an award - I thought it was another reminder about Benjamin - but it must have been about Ella.) So I wasn't there and I felt terrible about it, so after lunch I went up to the school and checked Ella out early saying she had an appointment.

She did have an appointment after all. One with me to go get slurpees. I mean was there anything more fun when you were in school to get the call over the loud speaker to "come up to the office prepared to go home"

AND THEN, because my heart is already about to explode...

BENJAMIN got his TAKS results back for reading (for those of you not in Texas, its like SOL's in Virginia, and you have to pass to go to the next grade level.) 

He got a Commended Performance - meaning he scored significantly above the passable level!!