Lilah's First Day

Today was Lilah's First Day of School!  She is officially a Kindergartner at St. Joe School.  On Monday night, we went to "Meet the Teacher" night and dropped off all of her supplies and had an ice cream treat.  Yesterday, we laid out her uniform and backpack and went to the store to pick out special donuts for breakfast.

Last night, she fell asleep around 8:30 which wasn't too bad for how excited she was.  BUT, I heard her up at 4:30 this morning and had to keep trying to get her back to sleep.  Once we were up and got her ready, we dropped her off this morning.  We all went in on the first day and took a few pictures.  She was able to stay in her classroom and color.  She didn't shed a single tear!  She hugged me extra tight, but then sat down and was ready to go!

We ran into our neighbor CJ this morning.  He told his mom that he didn't play with his friends at recess because he wanted to make her feel comfortable.  How sweet!

 Mrs. Weatherholt

I was more anxious to pick up Lilah than I was to drop her off.  It seemed like the line took forever!  She had a GREAT day!  According to her, she like the mashed potatoes, made 5 friends, and didn't want the day to be over.  It brought tears to my eyes to see her.  She looked so grown up!  Tomorrow, Brian will just pull up, drop her off, and she will walk in herself.  How did it happen that I have three school aged children?  Don't blink!

I'm an Artist, and I love it!

Macie is not playing soccer this year.  Instead, she opted to do an one week art camp.  We found one in Henderson called Ms. Pem's Art for Kids.  She went 4 hours every day and not only did they learn drawing techniques, they also took daily walking field trips.  Each field trip was to a business where the person did art and made a living.  I thought it was so awesome!

The last day, they had a little art show where they passed out certificates, said their chant, and had their art on display.  We were able to take her art home and it is neat to see her doing different types of art.

Every day, they said this chant and I thought it was so cute:

If I See It
I can draw it
I'm an artist
and I love it

Chalk and paper are my friends
pencils, markers, paint, and pens

If I see it,
I can draw it
I'm an artist
and I love it

We found another place in Newburgh that offers classes so we may let Macie take some after our Disney trip.  She loves art and we want to nurture that as much as we can!

Summer Fun!!

We've been having so much fun this summer.  Here are just a few pictures to recap our fun...

Wesley and Macie:

 Gram's B's 93rd Birthday:

 

 Swimming and Ice Cream at Harmonie:

 Playing in the Rain...and Mud:

 Glamour Girl:

 Trying on Uniforms and Photobombing:

 Katie and Andrew's Wedding:

 Wearing Mommy's Shoes:

 4th of July Fun:

 Praying for Mommy to have another baby:

 VBS:

 Steak n Shake Lunch with Mommy:

 Camp Alive:

Homeschool Highlights ~ Back to School!!

We've Started Back to School!!!: The kids were able to go to several camps this July (more about that soon) and on Sunday, July 16th (they asked to start the night before) we started our home school.  I took this time to go over the changes for the upcoming school year and explain what all we would be doing.  I honestly can't believe I have a 2nd and 3rd grader this year!!

Lilah's Going to St. Joe: Because of my lack of blogging consistently, I'm not even sure if I've blogged about our decision to send Lilah to Kindergarten at St. Joe School.  There are a lot of reasons for this decision, but it honestly started with her asking to go to school.  I did a lot of praying, research, figuring out the finances, and discussing with Brian before we settled on St. Joe.  We are so excited and nervous at the same time.  I think it will be good for her to be away from disabilities and have her own thing.  I will also now be restricted by a schedule, uniforms, homework, fundraisers, etc and MISS HER LIKE CRAZY!!  The good thing is, the school she is going to is 5 minutes down the road and she gets out at 2:00 each day so we will have a lot of time in the afternoons to spend with her.  I try to do what each child needs even if it adds more work to me, and pray this is the right decision.  If not, we can always bring her back home.  Her first day is August 9th, so I'll be sure to post more about that.

Mneme Therapy: Macie has only gotten to do mneme therapy a few times this summer due to crazy schedules.  We will go back to twice a month in August.

The Grassy Beach

The Flag

 First Day of School:

 For now, Lilah is joining us and I'm doing Kindergarten prep.

Back to School Ice cream (formerly known as First Day of School Ice cream): Now that we will have different starting dates in our household, I changed our tradition to "Back to School".  This year, we did something different.  We went to the store and let each kid pick out a treat.  They were so excited to have free reign in the ice cream aisle.  That has never happened before!  Then, we came home and ate our treats on the back deck.  The cool thing was, we had leftovers and have benefited for several days!