Deb -
great to hear from you...Jude's doing alot better in
school too...(ie no notes home...)there's something to
be said for maturing...and for having a more
experienced teacher (who doesn't make big deals over
what amounts to essentially nothing)...and it's
wonderful to hear that jonah is doing so well...god,
what a scary couple of years for you...
this is our first christmas without andrew...it's been
7 months
it's hard.
but we have a beautiful tree up; and had our
tree-trimming party uyesterday - the boys (jude and
friends) decorated the entire tree (except the top,
where they couldn't reach)--and did a really beautiful
job! I found these HUMONGOUS pine cones, and I had
glitter paint and glitter glue--and they decorated
them. And we made strufali (a traditional italian
desert for the holidays - honey balls...) Christmas
eve, my step-daughter is coming over, and i'll make
lobster - and i think king crab legs too.We'll stay
quiet on christmas. And for new years, we'll go out to
east hampton. it's so beautiful out there in the
winter..
Love marisa
--- Deb and Joel Gerrits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all! How is everyone and their Marchers doing?
> It's been a long
> time since we've had any activity on our list and I
> thought I'd stir
> things up.
>
> We're doing well. JOnah is really enjoying school
> this year. What's
> even better is we haven't had a single note from the
> teacher this year.
> At his conference she mentioned that he's pretty
> chatty--something that
> we already are well aware of--but otherwise said
> he's a good student.
>
> Jonah is in a multiage program. There are three
> classes that have 5
> first graders, 5 second graders and 5 third graders
> in each. Then at
> specific times of the day they split up into
> age-level activities.
> That's when Jonah does stuff with the other first
> graders only. He
> loves his class. And what's cool is that the older
> kids help the
> younger kids. Plus they match up the first graders
> with the 4th and 5th
> multiage kids for book buddies where they practice
> their reading.
>
> He had to do his first project and give a
> presentation just before
> Thanksgiving. It was optional for the first graders,
> but he really
> wanted to do it. They videotape it and send it home
> so parents can do
> an assessment of his presentation and the student
> does a
> self-assessment. It was pretty neat seeing my little
> guy doing his
> first presentation. I don't think I had to do
> anything like that until
> I was in high school.
>
> He's very excited about Christmas. Are any of your
> kids asking
> questions about the existence of Santa? We filled
> stockings for St.
> Nick's day and on the way to the bus stop (after
> looking at the goodies
> he got in his stocking), Jonah said "Mom, I think
> you put that stuff in
> there." He had been a pretty uncooperative and
> naughty kid the day
> before, so I said "Why would i do that? If it were
> me, I wouldn't have
> given you anything!" So he decided it must have been
> St. Nick.
>
> Then there's Josh. He's really thrived after his
> last surgery in
> August. He's still small, but starting to eat better
> every day. And
> we're so glad to have that third open heart surgery
> behind us. All we
> know we have to do now is go back in for a cath
> where the docs will put
> stents into Josh's too-small pulmonary arteries. But
> that seems way
> less scary than full-blown surgery.
>
> Unfortunately he's down for the count today after a
> bout with the
> croup. He's so sweet. His language skills are coming
> around and he is
> doing his best to learn all those Christmas songs he
> hears on the
> radio. It seems that his favorite today is Paul
> McCartney's "Simply
> having a wonderful Christmas time". Josh was in his
> first Christmas
> program last week. His class marched and danced to
> "Do you hear what I
> hear." He was dressed up like a little king, so
> cute. And he didn't
> even get afraid or scared in front of the crowd--and
> believe me, he's
> afraid of nearly everyone these days.
>
> Didn't really mean to make this a novella. Just
> thought I'd do a quick
> update. Let's hear how the rest of the Marchers (and
> their families)
> are doing.
>
> Deb
>
>
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