With a short week this week due to a nice long break for Labor Day the kids are almost finished with their second week of school. This seems crazy to me! We have fallen back into our routine, kind of nice. The first week of school was friend over load. With hardly any homework the days were filled with the excitement of seeing and meeting friends. We don't do a whole lot of play dates through-out the year but last week I gave in, the kids were super excited, bonus that we could use the neighbors pool seeing as the temperatures have decided to soar. Slowly the homework is coming, spelling tests and math are the push this week. Brayden's teacher is pretty tough on penmanship...not sure how we are going to survive, thankfully he has science twice a week that he is pretty excited about. Turned out that Brayden's class is going to be reading Buddy's with Andrea's K5 class-both kids were pretty excited. So our school year begins. I know our schedule will slowly fill up but the goal is to spend some more down time at home this year together...we will see how long we can hold out. It is amazing to me how easily guilt creeps in spending time with other families loaded down with activities...and yes football season/cheer season is in full swing out year ( totally craziness!). I am loving the fact that we do not have to go to School three nights a week for practice!
This is Andrea's K5 class. There are a lot of type A mom's in this group which I have found makes for a great year. There is always something going on and seems like a lot of work but I find these moms love it. I love it because there is a lot of special memories and I have no problem letting those moms take over! We already had a welcome party for Miss Stone-Andrea's teacher (first year at Metro).
Many of the kids are also the oldest in their family-first child going through K5...so lots of pictures from parents. Great for me as my camera rarely makes it to school these days.
Andrea's reading buddy has a sister who she loves to play with also in K5
This is what the girls have been doing in there free time-packing backpacks and going on little trips with their dolls. This day it was an adventure outside-although the dolls had to watch from the window...no longer allowed outside, after their hospital adventure!
We are back into Piano lessons. Becca is starting this year-such a struggle and reminder of how little patience I have. Also a lesson in humility as God decided to give me a child that seems tone deaf-so frustrating to me! Slowly she is learning , although this week she struggled in using her thumb (funny I remember this same problem-so much shorter than my other fingers)
And this is what the boys have been doing-coming in pouring down with sweat. Ron and I have made a huge effort to put a soccer team together for Brayden but what does he spend his time practicing??...along with our neighbor boy (also deep into soccer) Trying to do endless jumps-using terms I have never heard of.
How time just flys by-James is my only at home buddy. After a week of chores and errands I am remembering to spend some kid down time with him-funny how fast we move out of the "playing trucks, hanging out in the play-room" stage.
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