First Days 2014

We had a smooth transition back into the school year.  Emily is now in 5th grade and Jonathan 2nd.  This year is different because Katherine got to begin pre-school 2 days a week.  She was & continues to be thrilled to go to school like her big sister and brother do.  She even gets a homework sheet once a week and loves it.  We are very pleased with all 3 kids teachers, which is literally an answer to prayer for the right classroom for each of them yearly.  Here are some photos from their first days back.

 

Katherine doing her first homework sheet ever.  She was really excited!

Fall Festival

Our church had their annual fall festival this week.  The weather was perfect and we had a great time.  The kids came home loaded down with enough candy to last quite a while too.  Emily went as Belle, the brave princess from Beauty and the Beast.  Katherine was Tinkerbell - one of her favorite characters at the moment.  Jonathan chose a fitting Spiderman costume as he loves to climb on anything possible right now (and he's really good at it, I might add). 

The church had some of their theater-inclined young people wandering around dressed up and totally in character to interact with the kids. Emily came across a fellow Disney princess, Arial.  Katherine bumped into Tinkerbell herself, which made her very happy (it was pretty cute seeing her interact with "big" Tink).

Jonathan bravely tackled climbing a mock coconut tree and he made it all the way to the top!  We were impressed as it was about 20-25 feet tall.  This just further emphasized his true Spiderman-like abilities.  He was very proud of himself too, and rightly so!