It's hard to believe that September has almost come to an end. What a beautiful month is has been. I just love it when the warm sunny days of summer stretches into fall. We are planning to close up the pool this week, but Dan went swimming in it as recent as yesterday.
The kids have been in school almost a month now and are doing great. Zander scored really high on his kindergarten assessment. Over the summer he taught himself to read and is constantly looking for new things to learn. Right now he is fascinated with numbers, addition and measuring things. He also likes counting really high using his calculator. At least once a day he asks me how long it would take to count to a billion. He is also keeping track of how many more days until his birthday, giving us daily updates.
Natalie is doing well in second grade too and has scored 100% on both of her spelling tests. This summer we read Anne of Green Gables together and now she is reading it (the children's edition) on her own. We also watched the movie and went to an Anne of Green Gables tea this summer. Over the weekend Natalie got to bring home the classroom gnome named Tom. She was assigned to write about what Tom did while at out house. Tom got to go with Natalie to sign up for Girl Scouts, to the Teddy Bear Parade and to church. I have lots of photos of Tom that I will share soon.
Hayden has adjusted to preschool better than I thought. He loves the idea of having "his school." His teacher is new to the school and is just the nicest person. I gathered from talking to her that Hayden doesn't talk much in school which doesn't surprise me. Last week was the teddy bear picnic and I got to hang out with Hayden at his school. The best part about Hayden being in preschool was that it forced him to be potty trained. He was pretty much potty trained when he started, but once he began school, he stopped having accidents of any kind!!!
Well, that's it for now. I'm gonna try to work out the kinks and get some photos posted. There is lots to share from our recent summer adventures as well as back to school fun.
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Hey welcome back to the old blogger! It was good to catch up with what has been going one at your house lately. It seems like we do not get out of the house very much anymore. I am usually up and doing things around 0530 but your mom usually does not make it downstairs until the afternoon.
Usually by that time I have worked myself more than I should have and when she is wanting to do things, usually around 1530 or 1600 I am really dragging.
This morning I spent some time ripping up the old linoleum, raking the leaves in the front lawn, pruning the roses and trimming the apple tree.
Hopefully next week we will start on the downstairs bathroom remodeling.
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