School Time

I can't believe the summer went by that quick and that school time has already started.

I have both my girlies in school now. Aftan is in "kindergarten" and Reagan in preschool. Aftan was very excited to go back to school and see her teacher. She really missed her this summer. Reagan is liking school, but she is not yet adjusted to having to be away from me all day. She cries for me at drop-off in the morning, but I peek in the window when I am outside (yes, I am a preschool stalker) and she is already done crying every time I look in. She is excited when I come to pick her up and announces to her entire class that "My mommy is here!!!!". She tells me all about her day and all the things she did. Aftan is hit or miss. Some days she "can't remember" what she did and some days, like the day she got to be the teacher's assistant, she will explain in great detail. I guess it's the age ;)

I have gone back to work outside the home. My original plan was to work 9-2 M-F, but right now it is not working out quite that way. I am working 9-2 some days, but I am working a couple nights after the girls go to bed and maybe will start working some weekends if the weekday hours don't pan out. I kind of like it b/c a couple days a week, I have some time at home to myself. I enjoy that down time and the ability to get things straightened up w/out someone asking for things constantly.

I do miss my girls, though.

Here is a pic from their first day of school:

Six Months Later...

I can't believe it has been just about six months since I last updated this thing. This year is just slipping through my fingers. I can't believe it is almost half over. It is kind of surreal.

The school year is almost over. We still have about three weeks left. Only about five weeks until Aftan's 5th birthday. How is it that I can remember the day she was born like yesterday, but in just a few months she will be in "kindergarten"? *I use quotey fingers for "kindergarten" b/c she will be in the same class she was in this year, teacher and all, but moves to the top of the cycle in her class. For those that don't know, she goes to a Montessori school and their classes are divided by age, with 3 different ages per class. She is in the 3-young six class (those kids that did not make the 1st grade cutoff). She will not move up until next year when she is in the 1st grade. She will then stay in that class from 1st through 3rd grades. It gives her a chance to be the youngest and receive help and learn from older kids and will also give her the chance (like this coming school year) to be the oldest and help the younger kids.* Anyway, Reagan will also be going to school in September. Actually, she is going to go to a week of Summer Camp at school w/ Aftan this summer, as well. She will be in the 2-young 3s class. I can't believe that she is just about 2 1/2 now. She talks in complete sentences and sometimes just says the funniest things. I can also remember very vividly holding her in the rocking chair when we brought her home from the hospital. I would rock her all day and just daydream about what she would look like and what she would say when she was old enough to talk. Now I know, and it's so cute.

Oh....Aftan's birthday. We decided to forgo a big party w/ her friends from school and spend the day as a family at Busch Gardens. She is very excited about it and said she'd rather spend her day w/ us than her friends. She is already planning on what rides she is going on (she has never even been. LOL) and what food she is going to eat. We are thinking of trying to get her in to have lunch w/ Elmo, so hopefully that will be available on the day we go.

But, that is pretty much it. We haven't really done anything exciting or new. I am going to try to update this thing more now. :)