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Devin started school this past Monday. He is still attending Challenger School, and this year he is going Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He was very much looking forward to going back to school after we went to his orientation last Friday. He saw that he will have one of his teachers from his 3 year old class as well as some of the same classmates that he had last school year. Miss Cierra is great and I am glad that she will be one of his teachers again. Devin has 20 kids in his class, 2 teachers and one aide. I love that they have 2 teachers so the ratio is only 10 to 1 and they break up into two groups depending on skill and speed of learning. Kids who need a little more time are not rushed and kids who are ready to move on are not bored and waiting around for the other kids to catch up. Devin is one of the younger kids in this class since he is in the 4 year old group and most of the kids turn 5 through the school year when his birthday is not until next summer, but he seems to excel and keep up very well. 
He is a little bummed that he has less time to "play with friends" during the week, but welcomes the extra time at school. He did ask if he could go every day instead of three days but accepts that he will go full time when he starts kindergarten. Full weeks at his school is over a grand a month and that is just way too much for preschool regardless of how good that school is! Granted the full day is based on the fact that they have safe key as early as 7am and as late as 6 pm with activities after the school day for kids who have parents that both work. Since that is not our case, he goes MWF ams for now. We went swimming today at a friends pool and he loved getting to play with another friend's boys who was older than him. He whined and complained at first since the other kid was shooting him with a water gun but then he got used to it and started to shoot him back. Last thing we need is a tattling wussy kid. He manned up and actually made a game out of it. He has gotten so good at swimming despite the fact we never go to the pool anymore. I hope to get to the pool a few more times before this season ends. The kids love it and it definitely wears them out well.
As for me, I am officially training for a half marathon. Never in a million years would I have thought I would do this. I still have my doubts as to why I am doing it. I was cleared by my plastic surgeon to start working out three weeks ago (tomorrow.) The first day I was allowed to run, I got on the treadmill and ran three miles. I then decided to see how quickly I could do a 5k (3.1 miles) two days later on that Friday. Monday I wanted to beat that time and did and by Wednesday (one week out) I was ready for a new challenge. I set out to run 3.5 miles and was not tired yet at that point so went for 4 and still wasn't tired so went for 5. I was most definitely tired then so I stopped. Friday and the next Monday I did 5 ks again and Wednesday I challenged myself with 6 miles under 60 minutes and accomplished that. I did the same thing again Friday and Monday with 5 ks (keeping around 28.5 min) in addition to weight training for a half hour afterwards. I figure that since I am pretty much halfway to a half marathon (in the first two weeks of trying), why not try to train for one officially? I am switching my long days to Friday so I have a little more rest time. 7 miles this week seems a little daunting on a treadmill, but I will be bringing Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha with me to keep me company. Without them, I am not sure I could do it. Someone really should invent a usb port to the TVs at the gym that can transmit movies from your ipod to play on the screen. I have some weight to lose so this running should help me do that. I honestly HATE running. There is nothing fun about it. Since having smaller boobs and a super competitive personality I am hanging in there with this new endeavour. I guess there is a sense of accomplishment I will feel eventually....
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