What is With this Kid?

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has ever thought to themselves, "what is with this kid?"  Especially about my kids!  Teaching my kids each day gives me tremendous opportunity to really get to know them.  To understand their individual abilities, quirks, gifts, and talents.  This school year has taught me a lot about my kids, especially Hudson.  Hudson is incredibly smart, maybe too smart.  He reads everything he sees.  Which sometimes makes me crazy.  In church, he likes to read everything, very loudly!  When we have missionary presentations in the service, he always reads everything on the video or powerpoint presentation out loud.  If you know Hudson, his out loud is very loud!  He reads Joy's work, he tries to read Josh's work.  I'm floundering trying to find him reading material on his level that is also challenging.  He makes our class day exciting for sure.

He's progressing faster than the curriculum in most areas, so it is challenging trying to be sure that his work is on-level for him and that we aren't missing anything along the way.  He's in love with LEGO science and he is great at it.  While I was terribly sick, I told him I would get up and do one design with him and then we would put it away.  It was all I could do to stay up long enough to complete that one project.  Later that day, when I had rested a while, I went to the classroom to discover he had put together the rest of the LEGO machines on his own without instructions, he simply built it to look like the picture on the box.  I wish I could do that!  A college degree does not necessarily mean a person is capable of constructing basic machinery out of plastic building blocks.  I know I can barely manage to complete a project even with the instructions.

To make this child of mine even more interesting, I discovered this year that he is left-handed.  He is ambidextrous when he does most things, but as soon as we started writing or coloring this year, he would pick up a pencil with his right hand and immediately put it in his left and start to work.  I was really stunned at first.  I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed it before, but he really is ambidextrous with just about everything else.  Sometimes using his left, sometimes his right.  He is definitely a lefty when it comes to school work though.  Love my Little Lefty!  I also love how God shows us new things about the children entrusted to us each day.  I love those gentle moments when I can see Christ in their lives and how blessed I am that God shared them with me and put them in our home.  There is something so special about children, students, family, friends, they all seem to teach us about Christ each in a different way. 

'For of such is the kingdom of God'