First Days of School

Nicholas started Pre-K on Monday 8/14.  He is in Clase de Venezuela with Sra. Gabi y Sra. Andrea in his final year at Spanish Schoolhouse.  We have loved this place and look forward to all he'll learn this year.

Mikaela started 2nd grade today.  She continues dual language at Independence Elementary with her homeroom teacher as Sra. Valle and her English teacher as Mrs. Ruiz.

Mommy has lost her job as the chalk artist.

Actual first day

 We go to campus before actual start of school and stage photos.  Since I teach and Daddy has to get to work, and Mikaela doesn't seem to feel like we need to walk her into school anymore, this just works out better for us.

We had fun with this one.  Nick really does want to go to school with Mikaela.  

Conversations

At dinner one night, Mike and I were talking about our days while the kids were eating.  Mikaela was jabbering on about one thing or another, not really talking to us, just talking.   Mike said something, but I wasn't exactly sure what he said:

Donna: I'm sorry, Babe.  I didn't quite hear that.
Mikaela: Tor-teee-ya.  That's what I said.

Maybe you had to be there, but we both started laughing.  

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Graemma got Mikaela a car bingo game which she decided to play on the way to church this morning.  She would tell us what pictures we needed to search for and then we'd help her locate them (stop sign, traffic light, train, no parking sign, lampost, etc).  At one point she said, "We still need to find the word."  Perplexed, we asked her to spell it so that we could understand what word she meant.  "F-R-E-E. We have to find that."

Chuckle.  Perhaps we should explain what a "free space" is on Bingo.

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Standing on the train table Nicholas watched Mike walk upstairs.   "Da" he shouted repeatedly pointing toward the stairs.

Donna: Yes, Nicholas.  Where is Daddy?
Nicholas: Up

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Driving home the other day, Nicholas was holding Mikaela's baby doll in the car and repeatedly said "Baby, baby, baby".  I think that's our first real word (English, anyway).

Nicholas' First Thanksgiving

He did try a few foods, but those pictures are on Graemma's camera so I haven't gotten them yet.  Here's what we took.  Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.