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Anna adores seeing her big sister off on the bus, and will wave and say “buh-buh!” after the bus pulls away. But even more adorable is watching her reaction in the afternoon when she sees the bus coming down the street. Her little legs start kicking and she squeals with laughter. It makes my heart [...]
I took Carrie to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs today. It was surprisingly good – not at all true to the book (if it had been, it would have been all of fifteen minutes long!) but enjoyable nonetheless. There was plenty of material aimed over the kids’ heads at the parents, and it [...]
Dear Carolyn, Yesterday you turned 4 years and 11 months old. Just one more month until you turn 5! You have changed and grown so much in the past month it’s amazing. You’ve only been in school for less than three weeks, but you’re already a bit more confident, a bit more…grown up, I guess. [...]
Tonight we dropped Anna off to play with her friend Nikki and took Carrie to her open house night. I was a little preoccupied with signing up to help out with events at first (and making sure we got a good time slot for parent teacher conferences!) but when I looked around the room at [...]
Hot. Tired. Dusty. Worth it. The kids enjoyed the festival this year – Anna even manged to “baaa” at the sheep. It was a bit too hot for my liking (what good is a fiber festival if you can’t wear your handknits??) but I still managed to get in warm wooly zone long enough to [...]
Dance started today, at a new studio with the same teacher. I’ve realized that we’re going to have to figure out a quicker routine – 45 minutes from the time the bus drops Carrie off to the time we have to be at the studio seems like plenty, but it’s not really. I’m also going [...]
I’ve been packing Carrie’s lunch every day, for a few reasons. First, she’s a pretty slow eater, and would likely not have enough time to eat if she had to spend half her lunch period waiting in line. Second, she’s a somewhat picky eater – in that she doesn’t eat “normal” kid foods like pizza [...]
Carrie is going to have weekly homework assignments which come home on Friday and are due back on Tuesday. The first one was “Summer in a Shoebox”. She had to find 4-8 items that represented memories of things she did over the summer, and put them in a shoebox. They’re going to write or tell [...]
Dear Anna, Yesterday you turned 14 months old. Somewhere in my feverish haze I vaguely realized it was the 12th, but then I had to take a nap. I feel slightly better today, so let’s see if I can make sense… You are walking! Truly, truly walking, although you also still like to “bear walk” [...]
So there have been enough little stories Carrie has volunteered about the past few days that I think she’s probably actually enjoying school, and just might be a little overwhelmed by trying to describe it. Her favorite parts are still recess and riding the bus, but really, who doesn’t like those things? I love the [...]