Ev amazes me...

I am long overdue for an Evan update... my poor little man turned seven earlier this month and I didn't even blog about it! My goal is to do so by the end of the week but meanwhile I want to share the project he did for school this evening... a timeline covering every year of his life to date (this is a snapshot of a .pdf file; I'm hoping it is as clear as the original).

Doing a project on the computer with Evan is fun. Unlike some of his siblings, Evan doesn't dread it or whine about it; he just gets it done. And you show him something once... copy and paste, outlining, changing colors, inserting pictures, Word Art, inserting and manipulating arrows, etc... and he just takes over and actually gets annoyed if you try to help. Wow! I did think it was also pretty clever how he figured out after one caption that if he typed all in capitals he didn't have to worry about capitalizing certain words, lol. We were not supposed to help at all with the writing part so I didn't, except after he finished he asked if he spelled anything wrong. I said yes and he immediately found an error (left the o out of Halloween). Later he asked again if anything was spelled wrong and I said yes, and once again, he knew what it might be (he had wasent but changed it to "was not" when he couldn't figure out how to spell wasn't). He thinks it is all correct now and I have to say, I was happy he stopped asking because I didn't want him to start feeling like he wasn't doing an outstanding job.

I figure I have about 1 year left before his academic skills leave me in the dust!