This is year three/round three for the big girls and it's so amazing to see them comfortable and settled and 'right at home' in this environment. Local school has been an uphill battle on many fronts (not the least of which was pulling them out ten weeks into their first grade year and taking them to America and then dumping them back in the following September for second grade.... in retrospect that was a tough transition and we maybe should have considered having them repeat first grade, but anyways....)
Julianna giving me the "Mom, are you really going to take a picture" face. She loves me :)
This happy faces picture was posted to Isaac's class group chat. Made me smile to see it
And here he is marching - this marching stuff is the real deal. Isaac complained that the first few weeks of school every P.E. class was spent practicing lining up and marching. And I will say that it paid off. With a few short words his teacher can call out "line up" and those kids scramble to their places and left/right/left/right like little soldiers.
More marching, with Lydia leading the pack. She's definitely the easiest to pick out of the crowd, with or without her class sign!
So this week we've been in and out of our regular schedule, with the big three at school all day Wednesday and again tomorrow (Friday). Since my little two are also at school MWF mornings this meant I had an entire morning with zero children at home. Ayi and I went to work in the kitchen and churned out an amazing amount of provisions (cooked black beans, roasted pureed pumpkin, and over 100 tortillas) - tomorrow I'm planning to take it easy and get some time reading, resting, reflecting, and maybe doing a little bit of shopping too.
With Thanksgiving on next week's calendar it's full speed ahead towards the holidays and I'm excited to get up our Christmas decor! (maybe maybe this weekend?!?!)
1 comment:
Sports day looks like a winner for your three bigs! Reminds me of your 'field days' in elementary school.
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