B plus?!?!?

Today, we had Bailey's parent/teacher conference. We were to be there at 4:00 pm, we head over to the elementary school and park and start heading in. I had no worries with my little scholar. So, as we entered the building, I sent Bailey and Brendan to the playground and waited in the hallway for the teacher to finish with the other parents. The door swung open and she said, "Is Bailey with you?" I looked and told her he was on the playground and she asked that we get him. My first thought was uh-oh, I thought this was parent/teacher conference, not parent/teacher/student conference. So, I walk down to the playground and holler for the boys. They come running and say and screaming, mom, we just got here. I say you need to come with us, Bailey. Your teacher wants you in there, too. He looks surprised and says okay. Brendan says, ha ha Bubba, I get to play. After quickly putting Brendan in his place and informing him he has to tag along, we are on our way to the conference.

We enter the room and sit across the table from the teacher and she asks Bailey, " Bailey, I have your grades, how do you think you did?" My heart slowly sinks in my chest and I am thinking to myself, did I miss something here? She then hands Bailey his report card and he looks it over and grins and then his grin fades...he mouths the words, B PLUS? She starts praising him on how well he has done thus far and so on. I then take the report card and look and see he has gotten all A's, except for a B+ in reading. I am thrilled! Bailey gets kinda quiet and we continue with the conference. She goes over all his testing which he scored above average on everything and has some example work from throughout the school year. I then signed his report card and we said our goodbyes...

As we get back to the Jeep, Bryan and I are telling him how proud we are of him and how smart he is and how awesome his grades are. He then proceeds to tell us that he is never going to get a B again, only A's are acceptable in his book. I am thinking to myself, uh-oh, he is too young to be this concerned with his letter grades. Then, I explain what everything means, letter grade was and after realizing he was just points away from an A, he was then satisfied with himself. which, on the other hand makes mama satisfied that he is satisfied.

Now, we all know this wouldn't be a complete blog entry without a little Brendanism....

On Bailey's report card he had P's for his p.e., art, and music. So, Brendan says to Bailey, "Bubba, when I get in second grade, I am gonna try to get all P's, that way I don't have to be mad about not getting an A." Thank you for that little tidbit, Bren. And I am thinking to myself, I can't wait to see what letter grades Brendan does end up with when he is in 2nd grade, although it isn't the letter grades I will be concerned with, but the fact that Brendan...well, Brendan is Bryan Jr. (enough said) :)