Saturday, August 2, 2008

and so it begins....


well here we are, doing a blog. better late than never i suppose? who will read this? i don't exactly know but we'll try it for awhile and see how we do!

and so we have survived our first week of school. it went fairly smoothly. the girls insisted on riding the bus to and from school the first day. they chose matching outfits. cute as buttons, i think. savannah had a bit of a hard time with being tired. she's in 1st grade and it was her first time going all day. she was in bed, asleep at 8:05 that night. unheard of for her! she ended up sick the next two days. a fever, viral infection. she went back on thursday and got all caught up. she was happy to have her friend britlyn in her class and sitting next to her.

cassandra is in 3rd grade. her teacher is a man. she seems to like him very much. he has a pet snake in the classroom. i'm glad i'm not in there every day. she is doing well reading, catching up on her math review. her teacher is teaching the whole class how to play chess. this should be interesting.

griffin starts preschool on august 6th. it is for 2.5 hours. he seems excited. i hope so, he was a preschool dropout last year! he has to make it this year as he starts kinder next year. he turns 5 in september. i just don't know where the time has gone.
ya, i still cry every time they go back to school. call me crazy, i love to have them home with me. i love to play, do things together. i love to hear them play together, sing together, laugh together. even argue. they work it out, they love each other. at the end of the day they would rather be together playing than anywhere else.

alyssa is standing and cruising while holding the furniture. she's talking more. her new thing is to get a hold of something she shouldn't have, sees you coming to take it from her, screams bloody murder as you approach. it's precious. no, really.

1 comment:

Angel said...

See there is a benefit to your kids starting school early!! If you were here Griffin would be in Kindergarten THIS year.