Saturday, August 7, 2010

August 2009 Back to School


The kids started school last week. Grace is in 2nd grade and has a brand new teacher. This is her first year as a full time teacher.  She likes school, and doesn't complain much. But she has no previous friends in her class, she and I are a bit disappointed by that.
In the morning Jarrod leaves at 7:30am for school with Grace and Wave in the morning. First he drops Grace off at school, then drives Waveney to SCAPA.  Wave and Jarrod love their time together in the car each morning.
Waveney LOVES SCAPA, she says it is the best school ever. They do things differently there and she is really enjoying the school. She is a little concerned about who will be in her friends group as she is starting to get to know all the kids. She is really proud that she just took the MST 4th grade math test. This is the test they give at the end of 4th grade. She had 40 min. to take the test and the students were not expected to finish it in that time. Wave finished it in 30 min, and made 92% on it! She was very proud of herself!
Austin loves being in middle school. I wake him up at 7:30 and get him in the shower. I leave at 8:30 to take him to school, it starts at 9am. He has band on M, W, & F and they randomly assign him 1 of 8 exploratory classes for T, Th. They assigned him French. He is not happy about it, but it only last for 9 weeks so he'll have to tough it out! At least I can help him with it.
Grace gets home at 3:10, Austin gets home at 4:10, I go to pick Wave up at her bus stop at 4:20, we are all home by 4:30. It makes for a long day, and it has been real rough having to leave the house and be in the car alot. I don't want Austin riding the bus much, because of one particular neighborhood kid, and how mean middle schoolers can be.

At the Beginning of August Paul and Andrea flew to KY for Gabi's baby blessing.  While they were here we attempted cousin pictures and grandkid pictures.  It was a bit challenging, but we got some good pictures!!
The kids were not cooperative for the cousins pictures, we had to wake Jonas up, interrupt Gabi's eating time, and Rachel had not had a nap all day and it was 6:30pm! It was the effort that counts, but we'll have to do it again and plan better for it!

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