school

How could I forget to mention my kids started school?! Both of them!! 

Abby is at a waldorf kindergarten in our neighborhood. She goes 4xs a week and is absolutely in love with the whole experience. She cannot wait for school days. They are divided up into Bread Day, Handcraft Day, Soup Day, and Painting Day. I'll have to post pictures of school. For now, suffice to say she loves it so much. Oh, and when I got home from Colorado, Abby informed me she learned how to read. Which she sort of did.

Matthias... poor boy, does not have a first day of school picture. What sort of mother am I?! He goes 2xs a week to the YMCA and is equally in love with his school experience. His class has 8 two year old boys in it and 1 girl. It is exactly what Tai tai needs seeing that he only ever hangs out with older girls (besides his cousins). They go to the gym every day and get sweaty and it couldn't be more perfect. He is also coming with me to "Bible School" which is a community Bible Study in a nearby church. We are memorizing bible verses together, and he loves that too.

I also started school (also no picture, sorry :). So far so good. Right now we are on the track to send our kids to public schools and hoping I might be able to teach.   Next year we will have to choose between River North again and kindergarten.  Either way, we hope eventually that they might get into the bilingual school in our neighborhood so I've started talking in spanish at home a lot more!!

For now, we are enjoying every minute we have with together and we are doing everything like long picnic lunches, afternoons at the parks, play dates with friends, museum trips, etc.... and still getting to bed by 7:30!