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Ben passed his guppy swimming lessons and is now a minnow! Do you like his phantom owie and band-aid that he insisted on wearing on his head for 3 days?

And at Max's school, the mascot is the buffaloes, and for their character education, they try to "Join the HERD," with HERD standing for Honesty, Encouragement, Responsibility and Dedication. Kids get a punch on their HERD slip when their teacher sees them doing things that make them part of the HERD. When kids get 4 punches, they get a buffalo with their name hung on the walls of the school and get to enter their HERD slip in a drawing for various prizes. Anyways, Max already earned all 4 punches on his first HERD slip! So glad that he's going in that direction and not the way of the punk kids in his class that have already been sent to the office :).

Other random bit: yesterday Ben said "Mom, I love you all the way to Missouri!" Cracks me up!