Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Kindergarten, Camping, Dance & More

K loves school! There has not been one complaint about it unless you count complaining about getting up so early =) She loves the "specials" which include music, P.E., art, computer lab, etc. Some days she reports MANY details and some days hardly any. She learned how to tie her shoe from her new friend Lilly last week and is very proud. I think she just may wear out her laces tying and retying them. 

The weekend after her first full week was my 40th birthday. And what makes a girl feel 40? Taking the kids camping for the first time, that's what. The first night was horrible - C didn't go to sleep until 11pm and got up at 5:45am, K fell out of her bunk at 2:30am and M and I got about 2 hours of sleep. To be honest I considered packing up and coming home bright an early that morning...but thankfully Saturday was great with morning walks around the lake, fishing where K got her 1st fish and rounded out with fun at the lake beach in the afternoon and smores by the fire that night. The 2nd night was wonderful where we all slept ~11 hours. Nice! Sunday was my actual b-day and we enjoyed a morning pontoon boat ride around the lake before going to lunch with friends. 

Another bit of news is that we've decided to switch daycares the end of this month. C will be there full days and K for just a few hours after school. It's a big change for them and I'm keeping everything crossed that the change goes smoothly. I hope C will really thrive there. His class will be a little smaller and I hope he builds on his rapidly growing vocabulary =)

Ok, that was a lot of words...here's the main point of the post, some photos!

Sunrise while camping, courtesy of C's early wake up

Checking out a caterpillar on our morning walk

K's first fish!
 

C giving it a shot

Playing with some friends at the "beach", ok, generous term I know

Roasting marshmallows 

She was so patient and got a perfectly toasted one after about 10 minutes

Kids not sure of the life jackets on the way out of the marina 

A rare sighting of M and me together

K started a ballet class and it gets more adorable each and every week =)

Look at that smile, this kid!

Trying on my sunglasses, cutie pie!