That's a Wrap on Second Grade

If I have to see this, so do you.

That was yesterday, I think? I've become very bad at the whole time thing since the pandemic started a decade ago, but it can't have been more than a few days ago.

And a blink later, this happened.

So, second grade is done? I guess? I don't know how it is that we're letting infants into third grade, but apparently we are. Despite the fact that all of this is seemingly impossible, Mila had a solid year at school. She still loves every second of every day, with the exception of her first legit fight with a friend. It turns out that Mila will react in a very not productive way when someone tries to blackmail her into doing something she doesn't want to do. In this case, it was her friend saying, "Do this or you can't come to my birthday party" and Mila being like, "NOBODY TELLS ME WHAT TO DO" and basically being a jerk for a solid week.

Life lessons right there.

Another life lesson that came with second grade is that I think maybe, just maybe, Mila has fallen in love with reading. She is willingly reading a chapter or two of a book every night before bed. She just had to get past that competency hump so she could have fun. Amelia Bedelia books are currently her favorite, which is likely a surprise to absolutely nobody.

While she has fallen in love with reading, Mila still loves math best, with science as a close second. She legitimately LOVES solving math problems to the point that she will ask me to solve random equations at all of the best times. Who doesn't want to answer 452 x 78 while trying to merge in traffic on the Fort Pitt Bridge?

It's me. I don't want to do it. That doesn't stop Mila from trying to make me. I finally figured out, far too late, that I need to just flip it on her and ask her to solve an equation. She will do it and she will do it gleefully, which leaves you free to go back to concentrating on the thing you were trying to do.

Anyway, second grade is a wrap. If I had to sum it up in one sentence, I still think I would steal the words that her teacher said early in the school year. She described Mila as "aggressively happy" and ... yep, that checks out.