Okay first off, I'm changing the names that I call the kids. Girl2 is now Monkey, the Girl is Girlie, Boy2 is Sergeant, and the Boy is Smarty. Now that that is out of the way...
School has started! Hard to believe that the boys are now both in class all day every day. Classes begin at 8:30 and the younger grades are out at 1:50 It's a much shorter day than I am used to, so it is difficult to adjust to, with naps and snacks. I've been having to wake up Girlie to get her out the door on time to get them. But she is loving playing at the playground with her brothers. Yesterday was day 1 and we walked to the school. When making up the lunch bags, I "had" to make some for the girls too. So we put juice boxes and snacks into a lunch bag that Girlie walked around with. Today was the same. She was so disappointed that it wasn't her first day, but I have her enrolled at a young preschool at the Shearwater base starting in a couple of weeks.
The boys' teachers are happy to have them in their classes. They seem to be quickly making friends. It was heartwarming watching a little girl from Smarty's class start walking along with us for the last little bit of the walk to school and start talking and seeing them run off and play together before the bell rang. When Sergeant came out at the end of school today he was yelling "Mom! I made a friend!" Best part? He remembered the name!
Tuesday was Hubby and my anniversary. Eight years! We went out on a date before he left as an early celerbration, but Hubby had 2 dozen roses delivered here. Almost made me cry and really surprised me. The kids thought we needed to go out for supper, but with emotional and whiny children, we decided to get into our jammies and make pancakes for supper instead.
Yesterday was Girlie's birthday. Hard to believe she's 3! Since Hubby is away for it, we celebrated it with Smarty's birthday last Monday (do I really have a 7 year old son?). But we went out for supper yesterday, since we didn't get to the night before, to celebrate both the birthday and a successful first day of school. Went to one place and discovered it was closed because they had no water, so we went across the street to another place. 10 minutes after we were seated we were told that they were closing because they now had no water. They were serving the people there already but were starting to turn people away. I was very glad we got there when we did!
Today Girlie and I made a cake. She requested a chocolate apple cake that I make in a bundt pan. She calls it the doughnut cake :) So when we got back from our walk this morning (I have started walking the loop around Colby Village after dropping the boys off) we got busy putting dishes away, cleaning counters, and getting the mixer out to make it up. After a friend stopped by for a visit I asked them to come over after her kids got out of school to share in the cake. So they did. We had cake and ice cream. Very tasty!
Monkey really is a monkey. She is loud, she is determined, and she is mischievous. I love her expressions! She does everything she can to keep up and be involved with the others. They unrolled the yoga mats and were "exercising" yesterday and today. Between the push ups (so cute watching Smarty try to do one) and the jumping jacks (which he does a really good job on) it gets loud and funny to watch. But that little monkey takes the cake! When I bring her downstairs to change laundry, she insists on me lifting her up so she can pull on Daddy's pull up bar. Goofy girl.
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