Back to School!

I am officially a mother of a school-aged child! Hallie started Kindergarten 3 weeks ago and has already had her first homework assignment! Of course, she loves going every day and was upset the first weekend when I told her she didn't have to go to school for two days. She is attending the same school I work, the Imagine-Nau Charter school. Being a charter school, this school's day is longer than the typical public school. She attends school for 7 hours and 15 minutes each day and usually stays longer in the after care program while I finish up for the day. She also has a different teacher for math, reading, and writing and will keep the same three teachers over the next three years. She loves all her teachers and especially loves buying her lunch. After the first few days of me packing her lunch box she asked me if she could buy like the other kids. She likes to "copy" her friends and eat the same things they eat. I'm also fortunate that our lunch times overlap and I often spend my lunch 1/2 hour eating with the Kindergarteners - which is a whole new experience for me since I spend most of my day with teenagers!

Aiden has been lucky and gets to stay home with daddy while Hallie and I are at school. He likes to wake up at 7 before we leave and will stand at the window and wave "bye bye" to us, and then he'll get back in bed with daddy for a few hours. He just turned two last Monday and seems to be getting bigger every day. He is still very hard to understand, but I believe he has an extensive vocabulary that I just cannot interpret. His favorite words are juice, shoes, and cookie. He also spends most of his day amusing our new cat, Tommy. They like to play out on the patio together. Aiden just got some new trucks for his birthday that I'm sure he'll enjoy chasing after the cat with!