School Time!

It's hard to believe that the summer is over and school is back in session! Lexi & Kiegan started at the public schools yesterday for 1/2 day. They both came home with big smiles on their faces and Lexi even said that her day was "awesome". I can't tell you how happy I was to hear that come out of her mouth! Today was their first full day and they had school pictures (yep - school pictures on the first full day of school). They both came home and immediately started on homework. The public schools so far are proving to be so much more on top of things - especially when it comes to the kids using their assignment notebooks. I had sent Kiegan's teacher an email earlier this week just giving her a heads up on Kiegan's situation with the adoption (more on that later) and also his learning issues. She ended up calling me after school today to tell me how much she appreciated me sending her that email and to let me know what a joy Kiegan has been so far and how he's been volunteering to help out with all sorts of things in the classroom. The best so far has been Lexi's attitude towards the Jr. High - she has really stepped things up and is taking her responsibility for her classes very seriously which I just love! (If only she'd improve her attitude here at home......)

Maddie is doing GREAT! She has 4 teeth now - two on top and two on bottom. The only problem is that the two on the top are not the two front ones! She has one top front tooth and then there's a space where her other top tooth will eventually be and then there's another tooth. Of course she's still cute as can be!! She did finally crawl today! She's not a full-blown crawler, but she's definitely started. She can eventually make her way from the living room to the dining room. The daycare kids don't quite know what to think of her playing with their toys!

Speaking of daycare - that's busy as usual! I did have a new infant start this week - he's not quite 4 months yet. He's cute as can be, but for some reason mom decided to not bother getting him use to bottles so when he started coming here was when he started drinking out of bottles. The first couple of days were rough, but they are getting much better! I'm currently looking into getting accredited. This will help me to qualify for different grants that I can use towards improvements on the house or new playground equipment outside. It's quite the process and quite expensive, but there's a group that will help home daycares pay for accreditation.

Overall, we're busy as usual with very few weekends of nothing going on. I've been TRYING to go to Mass every weekend - sometimes sleeping in overrules it though. :o) The kids start CCD next month since they no longer go to St. Mary's. They're not really looking forward to that! I register them for it next week on Wednesday plus we have Open Houses for each of their schools - one on Tuesday and the other Thursday - both of which I have to get to early to help with the PTO booths. Next Friday I'm having an Uppercase Living home party at the house, Saturday is a bridal shower and Sunday is Maddie's Baptism! A week from then we leave for Ohio - it'll be nice to get away for a week!

I don't have any pics at the moment to share.....I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!