Yay! New Harry Potter movie coming out! I have a date with my son to go see if Friday - I was shooting for opening day, but decided that was too crazy.

We did pursue some additional ability testing for our son, turns out he is pretty smart, like we thought. He should be in the gt program, and will be in language arts. I am a little sad about math being a solid interest of his but his scores, so far, being just off the mark.

The school did indicate that they might be able to do some accomodation for him in math since he comes so close to the outright 'need' of a 98th percentile type child (aka 'gifted'). So, I will try and figure that out in the fall.

Summer is going well, not broiling hot by any stretch, as of yet. Finally found a cool, affordable place to stay at the beach, so I'll be reserving that soon. Also going to set up as much camping here and there as possible!

Sleeping Beauty, the aftermath

SO....for some insane reason we did sign up our daughter for Sleeping Beauty. It seemed like every ounce of her extremely strong will went into bucking every attempt to get her to behave, be good, be like the other little girls while she was waiting in line. When the music started she was usually well behaved and willing to try the steps. She did pretty well considering how insane things looked while we were waiting. I tried to pull out a couple of times, but the director kept stating that she would be in it. So she was. Whew.

My son did a great job as a goblin, he and 3 other boys really got into their roles and very scary costumes they got to wear. Plus the evil 'witch' they got to accompany was an extremely accomplished older dancer who previously worked with the Bolshoi, he was really nice to the kids and they enjoyed working with him. I think they learned a thing or two about expressive dance.