The 2nd Day

Kylie and Meg's first day at school for the year went well. They both love their teachers and Megan has a lot of friends from previous years in her class. Kylie made four friends yesterday, two boys and two girls, however "their names are secret" (according to her), which I think means she forgot them :) We took Simon with us to pick them up from school and decided that in the future we will leave him at home - at least until it cools off to the 60's and everyone drives to pick up their children because it's "too cold". Simon behaved well, and started off happily, but by the time we got to school his tail was between his legs and as soon as we stopped he hid under the stroller. Too much noise I guess between all the cars, the buses and the bazillion parents that walked their kids home yesterday. He pulled so hard at the leash on the way home that I was afraid he would strangle himself and once we got inside he hid under the desk for quite a while. I have to admit that he's a bit of a wimp.

Our second school day got off to a challenging start when we slept through the alarm and woke up 20 mins before Rob and the girls had to leave. The girls had picked out their clothes the night before though and they jumped up and got ready really fast, so they weren't even late to school! They even had time to eat breakfast :)

Beth decided to sleep in Jack's room last night (he has a double bed in there as well as his crib - yes, I know he's two, but he hasn't climbed out of the crib yet and having him still sleep in his crib makes life so much easier!), so she and Jack slept through the morning rush. They woke up around 8:30 and talked and played for a while before deciding they wanted to come out. I loved listening to them through the baby monitor! After breakfast they headed off to the playroom and I thought "wow! It is going to be so much easier to get things done!" I stopped thinking that about 10 minutes later when Jack and Beth decided they were tired of entertaining themselves and there were no older sisters to help entertain them.

So homework was put on hold and paint sets came out . . .







They both loved painting. Beth neatly painted her pictures and when she was done, there were no stray drops of water in the paints, no paint on her hands or clothes. Jack, on the other hand, had managed to get paint and water all over his side of the table, all over his hands and even all over his face. They both had fun though!

Then we decided to play with blocks . . .

Beth built several "little castles"


Jack opted for towers




Then Beth built a big house and the smaller blocks turned into people who lived in the house. I love listening to the conversations she has when she is playing!


Jack got bored building towers and did kung fu with the blocks instead




No homework done today, but that's ok :) I spent time with two of my kids :)

On Monday all the kids and I made a tree for the front window. We usually have some art project on display there, but haven't for a while. We decided since school was starting and it will be fall soon that we would make a fall tree. I bet ours is the only tree where the leaves turn purple and pink though! We have one blue leaf, which Megan carefully made, then announced that it was "the blue leaf from the old oak tree" - she then said "I love that phrase!" I don't quite know exactly where that phrase came from, but she reminds me of myself at her age :) I remember giving things names too. There was a little clearing in the woods near my house growing up that I named "the white way of delight", which I'm sure was inspired by Anne of Green Gables.