Let's start with Ryan.  Ryan is doing well.  He just switched out of P.E. and into reading, which he tested out of in the beginning of the year.  P.E. was not going well for him with a bunch of bullies and thugs and an uncaring, unobservant coach/teacher.  I am glad to have him out of that environment.  They cap the number of electives a kid can take at three, and since Ryan was already taking three, back into reading he goes.  My son, who loves sports, is happy to be getting out of P.E. and into reading, if that tells you anything.  He caught up on their latest reading book, "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief", last night.  I haven't read the book yet.  I wonder if it is any good?

Ryan also got contact lenses over spring break.  He definitely looks different without his glasses.  I will post a picture later with his new look.  He is hard to pin down for pictures.  He can see better with the contacts than he could with his glasses, and he did need a new prescription anyway.  It will be nice for him when he is playing sports not to have to worry about his glasses.  He is happy with his contacts, though, and I wonder if we should have made the switch before now.  Next on the list: braces!

Alexia is just plowing away, happy through life.  She likes to get on her computer and Skype with her grandparents.  She already knows a lot about computers for a six-year-old.  Yesterday, I got an e-mail from Moxiegirls.com informing me that my daughter had registered on their website.  I had assumed that Chad helped her with the registration, but nope!  She did it all on her own.

Chad managed to get his Florida medical license after all.  We thought it would take until June, but it showed up the last day of March, all the same.  I wish we would have known about it sooner, and maybe we wouldn't have to be doing another three-month separation, but I am glad he has it, and it is another hurdle down.  It was so nice to have him here for a week and to feel like I had a parter and co-parent for a little while.

I am thinking, no planning on going back to school this fall with the intention of eventually going to PA school.  I hope it works out and that I have some brains left after over a decade of inactivity.  I just have to figure out where to go, what classes to take, and all that jazz.  Wish me luck.