Settling In To The New Routine
It’s been a little over a week now since elementary school became a part of our lives here. Things have been going well and Emma continues to be excited about kindergarten. Each day when I walk over to get her, one of the first things she says is, "We didn’t get to go in the big library today". Yesterday, she was finally able to say that they did get to go in the big library but she was disappointed that they didn’t get to look at all the books. Instead they just had to sit and listen to the teacher read them a story. Emma’s reading skills have been advancing pretty rapidly and she’s now reading books that are not even categorized as "easy readers". She has to take some time on a few of the bigger words but she’s doing well sounding them out and normally can figure out what the word is. We are very happy that she loves books so much!
It has been nice to have such great weather over the last couple weeks. It’s strange how the weather turns nice as soon as school starts. We have been trying to take advantage of the weather by going out to the lake as much as possible. We plan on going out there this weekend since it is supposed to be near 80 degrees. We’ve been preparing both of the lake houses for winter by cleaning the gutters and putting away all the summer type equipment that we leave out each year. I think we are just about ready for winter.
Polly and Vic made it back to New Orleans on Sunday evening. They packed a lot of activities in to their visit. They spent the night out at the lake with us, spent time at Sarah’s, went to Point Defiance park, hiked up near Mt Rainier, and also spent a couple days up in Canada visiting Bill and Renee. We look forward to the day that they are up here all the time, although it sounds like that will be a couple more years.
The picture below is of Emma after school one day. They have been wearing different colors to school each day and this particular day was "orange" day.
