Where or Where Has the Summer Gone?

Can you tell I'm teaching preschool again? Everything has a song to it. We started back last week. I have been awful at blogging recently, but I have to say it was probably the best summer with my kids ever! We had those great vacations I blogged about and in between we had some great activities going on around here. Even when we were at home, the kids played great with each other and we all really enjoyed being together. The girls played a lot of Our Generation Dolls together and they made some YouTube videos. The boys enjoyed playing in the front, Austin on his roller blades and Erik on his bike. All four of them played many rounds of Cover Your Assets. I played with them a few times too, but it was nice for them to initiate some "real" game playing on their own.

Their doll set up.

Cul-de -sac riding

Waiting for butterflies to land on them in the butterfly house at the zoo.

Roller skating

Splash pad

Archery!

 Austin went to scout camp and I got go with him one of the days. Victoria went to girl's camp and Karissa stared cheer in August. All except Victoria took swimming lessons. Luckily, Erik ended up winning a rubber ducky race and we got free lessons for him because he decided half way through that he didn't want to do them anymore. I was a little worried about what that would mean for all day kindergarten this year...

Well, here we are on day 5, the 4th full day and he's loving it! He has the same teacher Karissa did for kinder, which is nice. She's a great teacher! He has snack in the morning and snack in the afternoon, plus they have some quiet time after lunch. So far, each day he has come home, he has eaten all his food! He even commented how he was able to play cops and robbers at school because he had eaten all his food and felt so good.

Open House with his name for the class.

Kindergarten playground

Austin is thriving in 3rd grade with a fabulous teacher who Victoria had for science when she was in 4th grade. Austin walks Erik up to his class and waits with him until the first bell rings after I drop them off. He's being very responsible!

Karissa is the big shot 5th grader at Gallimore and is so responsible about her schedule for school and cheer. It makes me happy to see her thriving!

Just off the bus.

Good facials!

Victoria is continuing on with early morning orchestra playing the violin. Her dance classes are on Mondays and Saturdays now, so we decided to try cross country for the short 6 week season since she will be able to make the Wednesday meets now. She'll be pretty busy the next 6 weeks, but hopefully it's fun for her. She's loving cross country so far!

Picture day!

Grandma Pat and Grandpa Jim came for a visit right before school started. It was nice to spend the last of the summer with them and have them help finish up a couple of projects and get ready for school.

Farmer's Market

Game time

Building a soccer net with Grandpa.

Showing Grandpa how to play mine craft.