A very short week thanks to Labor day and our plans for going to my parents’ house Friday afternoon. The big boys are doing well at school. They are still able to wake up early without any fussing to go back to sleep. I’m also able to get up without fussing.
Caleb is a talker! He comes home and will start a story that goes on FOR-EVER! I’m not really exaggerating that much. I feel bad because he always picks a bad time to start these long stories and I have to tell him that we don’t have time for it right now. I am probably the one he can blame for that. He just wants to tell you every detail and then can go off another story because you have to know that part before he can tell you this other part. The hard part for me is to just listen, I’m usually the one telling stories not listening. :) Noah already had this teacher and overall the school has some of the same procedures, so I know what he is talking about already. I just want to say “what’s the point?” so we can move on. Terrible I know. I’m working on it. At dinner one night with a long story John and I used the movie Bolt, “is this a long story? I’ll remember the first half, you take the second half…” He laughs at us and then just goes on with his story. He is a little tired in the afternoons, but he gets to the homework with no problems.
Noah is a different story or well, not much of a story at all. He doesn’t say too much unless it is REALLY important to him. Even then it’s usually short and sweet. He does like to add or correct Caleb’s stories. Noah changed classes this week and we had another “Meet the teacher” night. The school had over the state teacher- student ratio for Kindergarten and Second grade, so they had to hire another teacher for each grade. We decided to help out and volunteer Noah to move to the other class. He was okay with it. He is pretty easy going and so far hasn’t had any problems in school. Okay there was the biting and throwing chairs when someone took “his” chair at day care; but I think we are passed all that. The new teacher was in Caleb’s class last year, so she knows the boys already. She has already made comments that she is going to try and not confuse the names. The teachers will sometimes mix up Noah and Caleb. I laugh because I’m not the only one!! Noah seems to be enjoying the attention this week of being “special” because he gets to move classes. At home in the afternoon he hasn’t had too much homework, but when he does he doesn’t want to do it. Maybe I made them work on school stuff too much? Probably not, it’s just Noah being Noah.
Mommy’s School is going well. It was a really short week with Labor Day and then leaving on Friday. Makaela is slowly getting the idea that she can do things on her own. Eli and Ian are enjoying the little things we do. This week we made rainbows. Nothing too hard for me to prep, but a cute little project to take with us for Grandma and two of the Aunts. The pictures below have Ian working out of a workbook that Caleb was sent home last year with. Nothing is done in it, so we are using it to help practice our letters. Eli and Makaela took the time to practice their letters on their pages with dry erase crayons.
In the evenings, we had homework and tried to work on the bookcases some. The kids were super excited with Ian’s birthday and the trip to my parents’ house coming up. Our routine is still being worked on since not everything is settled yet at school and we haven’t thrown all the extracurricular stuff in the mix. John and I are really anxious to see how this fall semester goes. It is going to be a learning experience. I feel like I keep having to tell myself, “we can do this, we can do this...”