Back to school time, fall edition

School is going very well for Owen and Olivia. Here's the deal though, they haven't been there in a week. They've had a random week off, mid October. While it's been fun having them around all day, it's time to go back. We've been to parks, train stations, stores, restaurants, everywhere.

Lindsay and I had our first parent teacher conference last week. Believe it or not, Pre-K has a standardized test of sorts. It's mostly counting and letter recognition. Owen didn't do so hot. Although I believe that the test was getting in the way of playtime, so he blew it off and only counted to five. I can get on board with that. (I pretty much blew off the conference, because it was going on while the Royals were finishing off the Orioles in the ALCS. If only we'd had the foresight to not double book ourselves at conference sign up time two months ago. I mean we all knew the Royals would win 8 straight playoff games and go to the World Series back then didn't we?)

It was a little strange having the teacher go over the test results with us. It kind of drives home the point that the twins are growing up. In some ways it feels like we just brought them home from the hospital. In other ways it feels like maybe they should be heading off to college soon. It really just depends on the day.