I got Jesse's report card this morning, and he got an "E" in reading!!!! He's never received an E in reading. I'm so so proud of him.

Mr. Shadow handed over a bunch of his work from the nine weeks, including a notebook full of morning work. Jesse has to write something every morning, and some of the entries are quite funny:

"Taking care of my teeth is important. Becuse they can fall out if you dont brush them. I will allways brush my teeth."--8/23/06
"If I had $5.00 I will save it. Then I will spind it. I will buy a Star Wars figure."--8/29/06
"I have never ben to a volley ball game. I thingk volley ball games are fun. I thingk my mom and dad have seen a volley ball game ones. I thingk I have seen a volley ball game ones wen I was a baby."--9/6/06
"I'm most careful when I am on a 10 story billding. I'm most careful when I am holding somthing glas. I'm most careful when I'm crossing the street."--9/11/06
"Riding on a bus is boring. All you get to do is site down."--9/12/06
"My house is small. My house is alwas cold. My house is very old. My house is a good place to live."--09/18/06
"Ferris wheels are smelly. They are all sizes. Some have lites and some don't. They are difrent shaps."--9/20/06
"My closet is mesy. I do not no what is in it. I lost my cat in there once."
"Bowling is fun. I went bowling like 1,000 times. My friend will has never gone bowling before. I made a strike once. You have it lived tell you try bowling."--10/04/06

I was less proud of him yesterday afternoon when we experienced more lip bumper drama. I picked him up from Lindenwood, and he pointed at his lip-bumperless mouth. "Where is it?" I asked. "It's in my bag." I wasn't leaving the building until I had confirmed this, and sure enough, it wasn't there. So Jesse dashed back upstairs, where he found the case lying on the stairs. I gave Jesse a stern lecture about putting it somewhere secure, and then dropped the case back in the bag. And a little nagging voice in the back of my head said "Open the case, Jesse's Mom." But I'd already closed the bag and pushed the little voice away. And I know better than that. When I don't listen to the little nagging voice, I ALWAYS regret it. So we left Lindenwood, made a quick stop at the bank and arrived home where I opened the case. "It's empty!" I shouted. "Damnit!" Jesse totally fell to pieces "How can it be empty?" he asked crying. I made a careful search of the bag, but it wasn't there. We had 15 minutes to get back to Lindenwood before the place closed. I drove like a mad woman. "Cross your fingers and say a prayer, Jesse. We have to find that lip bumper." I couldn't bear to face the orthodontist again for another replacement. We walked inside Lindenwood, and as Jesse ran upstairs to find the stupid device, I began to explain to the director why we were back and that we weren't leaving until we found that little piece of metal. But thankfully, Jesse found it. "What have we learned from all this Jesse?" I asked him on the way back home. "Well, YOU'VE learned to always check the case," he said. Yes, I have.

On a more positive note, he did manage yesterday to also find the blue jacket he lost last week.