On Monday Mary and Ammon had parent teacher conferences. My favorite parts were 1) when Mary reached over to hold my hand while Mrs. Issa talked about what a good student she is and 2) Ammon’s whole conference.

Ammon’s whining has been hard lately, but talking with his teacher gave me a whole new perspective on him. She gushed about how delightful he is, how life is a musical to him (he spontaneously bursts out into song all the time), how the girls in the class love him because he is always complimenting them (and if he misses one she will demand to know if she’s beautiful too, to which he always replies that she is!), and how he proposes marriage to the girls regularly, on bent knee, with great flourish. His last proposal took three tries and finally, when he qualified “Will you marry me?” with “…when we are grown up?” she said “Yes!”.

She also said his favorite game is dress up, and he is always wearing flowing dresses, flowers in his hair, and sometimes a vest over the dress. He likes playing family with the girls. Sometimes other boys will join in to be the dad, but then they say they have to go to work and promptly leave the game. I thought that was funny (and kind of sad).

Also, Ammon loves to tell stories. Recently he recounted the Princess Bride in the first person from the perspective of Buttercup. Every time he referred to Wesley he said, clutching his hands together, “My sweet Wesley.” I about died when she told me that.

It was also fun to see Ammon racing through the halls popping his head into each teacher’s classroom and greeting them all by name. Even the teachers that aren’t his all know him and stopped their conferences to say hi to him. He is such a social child.

Then I took the kids over to Lydia’s school so I could teach art to her class. I volunteered to be the art mom when Lydia asked me to the other week. I remember loving when my mom was the art mom, and I volunteer so little because of the babies that I thought it was probably time. I was soooo nervous but it ended up being really fun and I fell in love with her whole class. They are all such delightful kids!