First day of school

Jones also started school.  Again it was delayed start like Thea but he was glad to go back.  I think two week quarantine did him in. He’s starting second grade. He was thrilled to have a laptop at school instead of a iPad.  His favorite color is red, favorite food is popcorn and he wants to be a lego master or video game designed when he grows up.  

Here’s to a great school year mister. 

Kindergarten woah

Thea Bird

Time has just flown by it seems like just the other day you were learning to walk and crawl.  I feel like I blinked and you are now five and so grown up using big words and having such sass.  You are growing up and I want you to know you are AMAZING.  

I won’t lie I did not cry dropping you off today, I jumped for joy.  We just finished up a quarantine where my patience and sanity was tested to the extreme, so I needed a break – thank you kindergarten!  But that’s not to say I that I won’t miss and wonder what’s going on at school and I am not grieving the loss of my bold toddler baby lady.  I do.  I do miss that lady, but I also celebrate your growth and learning. 

I hope that you will listen, watch, learn, experience and love school.  I want you to learn to read and add and subtract.  Discover a passion for history, science, math, art, dodge ball or writing.   Make friends, art, and mistakes.  I want you to show love and grace while doing it.  Be a friend.  Do to it all and be you doing it.  

I sent a postcard in your lunch box that says “Be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons.” – and I mean it.  Be that flamingo.  Be okay being yourself, you are smart, fierce, genuine and sassy.  Here’s to a great year baby lady.  

Lots of love Mom

21 - Preschool for Thea

Finding a preschool for Thea has been challenging since most of the local school are half day and she couldn’t attend Jones’s school.  But we looked into the options and I did the $$ math and I am sending her to the local Montessori school.  She currently only goes two days but she LOVES it.  She’s ready to go the second she gets up.  And in fact has been known to run out to the car before taking off her PJs.   They have a nice outdoor classroom and she loves to do the daily doodle and work on the centers.  I am hoping that more days open up and maybe I can afford to send her all 5 days of the week.  

First day of preschool age 2 & 4

First day of preschool age 2 (technically just daycare but she doesn’t want leftout).  

She says:

Favorite color pink

She wants to be a “mermaid auntie” when she grows up.  

Favorite thing at school “choo choo wagon and carly”, least favorite “don’t know”

Favorite food she said “goldfish”, but I know it’s really sauce she just saw the gold fish snack wrapper that she left in the car.

First day of preschool 4 aka pre-k.  

He says his favorite color is red.  

He wants to be a farmer when he grows up so he can grow all the things like apples and rainbow carrots.  

What he’s looking forward to at school “his friends and slime”.

He is not looking forward to “nap time”. 

Favorite food he said carrots and then changed it to CANDY.  

Love them!