Anna is so excited to have the “sharing bag” to bring to school today. Since the color of the month is orange, she has to bring in an orange mystery item for her classmates to guess. Her clues are: 1. You eat it. 2. It’s crunchy. 3. It grows in the ground. Any guesses? No? [...]
One of the advantages of sending Anna to the same preschool as Carolyn is that she gets to do all the same fun things! So today was Anna’s first field trip, just like Carolyn’s four years ago. Anna was pretty upset when we got to the farm, because she “wanted to go to school today!” [...]
Who says a goalie is supposed to prevent the soccer balls from going in the net, anyway?
This weekend is the annual fiber festival put on by our local spinning guild. Our shop has a big booth there, so it’s a working weekend for me! Bits of our booth: Denis and his parents (here for a visit) brought the girls to the festival this afternoon for a bit. Their new rainbow sweaters [...]
(More details can be found on their respective Ravelry pages: Tulips for Carolyn and Tulips for Anna.)
This year, Carolyn is moving up a level to a 1.5 hour class that includes tap, ballet & jazz, and Anna is starting dance with an hour long ballet & tap (and learning how to listen) class. So we moved “dance night” to Wednesdays so they could have classes at (mostly) the same time. This [...]
Anna was so very ready to start school that she was beside herself with excitement this morning! After we put Carolyn on the bus and I managed to drink a little coffee, we headed down to the school and waited for them to open up the doors. Anna showed her teachers the little treasures she [...]
Anna got to go to her preschool today and meet her teachers! She was a tiny bit shy at first, but then warmed up pretty quickly. She apparently thought she needed to show off every bit of knowledge she’s already stored up, as she walked around the room pointing out various things that had her [...]
