First Days of School

My two oldest have both started the next chapters in their lives: Jack is a kindergartener and Kate is a preschooler!  Kate is in the Tigers class at Bright Beginnings on Wednesday and Friday mornings.  So far, she's doing well.  Each week they have a theme, so it's fun to hear her come home and put those themes into practice: "Come on, Maggie, let's play Camping!"

Jack is in Mrs. Lee's class at Fairacres, the same school that Brian went to.  I was a little worried about him on the bus, but he turned out to be a bus-riding pro.  He has two friends from his class who also take his route (even though he doesn't ever remember their names!), and they all sit in the row right behind the bus driver.  Phew.  Unfortunately, he's already missed three days of school due to a fever... but. hopefully, the sick days are over for awhile!  Words cannot express how unbelievably proud I am of him.  And how I really, really would love to be a fly on the wall of his classroom... but, I guess, there's a time in every kid's life when his/her mama realizes she has to let him go!

The Fun Baby Book

My favorite hobbies as a kid?  Reading stacks of books... and then writing my own.  Jack seems to be following in my footsteps.  He loves drawing elaborate pictures and then dictating the story to me so we can put a book together.  His latest creation was titled "The Fun Baby Book."  It didn't really turn out to be a "baby" book, but it is fun to see he's thinking about.  For all who'd like to take a read, I present:

The cover

People had a race and then they were too tired to race anymore, so they went inside and they slept and they got a drink of water and they came outside again and raced for forty days and forty nights."

The fire is burning a building down that is still being built up.  But will the firemen ever put the fire out?  Yes, they will.  They put it out fast and then they go home.

A boat crashed the land and it flew out to sea and it crashed another boat in the face.  It kept doing that until it wanted to go back to land.

The Transformer dump truck transformed into a dump truck that's standing on one wheel and dumped dirt into a pile and crunched it up because it was too big of rocks and they made a road.