Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Emily can read!





Emily has been working on "sight words" at school the past two weeks and hearing her read her first book, really READ her first book, brought tears to my eyes! I was so happy for her! the look on her little face when she was finished was AMAZING. A look of such accomplishment, such joy, such pride!!!!
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Back to school update...

Kids are all liking the new school. It really is brand new, so they are experiencing it for the first time along with all the other kids. It's a beautiful school with two floors so the "big kids" go upstairs and the "littler kids" stay down.

On the second day Emily was ready to walk alone to class so I reluctantly let her go and watched from the hall the whole time, making sure she made it to the right room. She has no time for tears, fears or silly moms who wont let go!!!!

Jacob is LOVING his new class. The teacher is really engaging the children and he seems to really enjoy all things NON FICTION, so that is great. Right now they are learning about maps. We had him map out out trip to Ohio that is coming up and he felt sooooo proud as he was able to answer all my questions without hesitation about the map! He said its because "they learned all that really easy stuff in like, first grade"!!

Katelyn was super exited to have a "boy" for a teacher this year and now she might be re thinking that. She was really excited to find that he was a huge history buff, something that Katelyn and Jacob both find very fascinating. He and his family travel around the country to different battle sights and take pictures and such so that when they talk about these things in class he can show the kids. He was in the military and so he brings a bit of that also into the class room, something Katelyn has found she is not so sure of...
I can tell you that ALL of last year she maybe had one instance of having a code wrote in her folder for forgetting something or whatever. (a code being a number assigned to a rule)
This year (less than two weeks in) she has had to "walk laps" TWICE already. Poor thing.
Its really for little things that she did forget (new rules) and its is teaching her to follow through and be responsible, I get all that, but I really already want to have a talk with that teacher!! (kidding...kinda)

I was giving Katelyn a bit of a teasing at the table last night and I told her, "you keep up this pattern and you will be just like I was in school. Getting detention, walking to the principals office, notes home to the parents".
To which she replied, "But I don't want to be like you were in school, I have seen your report cards"!!!!!!!


GOOD GIRL!!!!

Friday, August 14, 2009

Back to school...










The kids went back to school this week! BOOO!!!!
Emily entered into Kindergarten, Katelyn went into Fifth and Jacob into Third!
They all love the new school (its really new), and have already begun to make some new friends!

Something I found a bit funny, today I asked Emily what she played on the play ground today and she said...
"I played camping with my new brown friend"! CUTE!!

Camping in GA!














We have been wanting to camp all summer, so this past weekend before school started we took the kids to a camp ground on Lake Linear that is about 5 minutes from our house. It was GREAT!!
We had a site right on the lake so we were able to hear the boats and waves from the boats all night...LOVED IT! We were able to walk right into the water from our site too!!
We decide to bring Abby out during the day and take her home at night because she roams so much at night from place to place in the house, we didn't think she would settle down very good in the tent at night.
This was her first time actually being able to run wild in the water and swim and she LOVED it! She almost swam all the way to the island with John and the kids, I called her back though...

We did realize that we think that this was our first camping trip as a family without all the cousins!! How crazy is that??!!
It was a really great way to spend the last weekend before school started!!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

FUN WITH DAN!!!









Cousin Danny stayed with us in GA for two weeks...as you can see, we had TONS of FUN!!!!