The girls slept in the fort they made over the weekend. Even though it was a school night tonight, I told them they could sleep in it, as long as they had good behavior. And good behavior they had. I took this picture on my cell phone. By the time I got my good camera they had already shifted positions. But they fell asleep holding hands!
We're in the paper again....
(unfortunately they spelled Amelia's name wrong)
We are indeed the "lingering parents". Our friends and the staff at Destin Elementary are teasing us saying the school is going to take out a restraining order out on us. :)
We really like everyone we have met at the school so far. The principal is great! William already knew her, which is always a plus. Her son went to school with William's brother, Lawrence, and Abigail's PE teacher was William's football coach when he was in high school.
I hope they really don't mind us being around, as we plan on being up there a LOT.
Pink Bunny went to school. She stayed in the backpack all day.
Car Pick Up
She was pretty tired when she got in the car.
These are cute shoes, right? I thought so. Unfortunately Abigail wasn't so fond of them.
We went to the shoe store today to pick out some good "playground shoes" for school. Nothing fancy, just a pair of shoes she could really play in. Ones that wouldn't show dirt too much and ones that would be easy to wash when they did get dirty. I picked only two shoes for Abigail to try one, the pair above and another Merrell sneaker. The second shoe happened to be all pink, but not nearly as easy to get on her foot. There were no laces, straps or a zipper, more of a slip on shoe that didn't slip on easily at all. Of course Abigail wasn't concerned about practicality at all, she only cared about the color and was livid with me for even thinking about getting her grey shoes. She went into a little tirade informing me "that grey has been my worst color all the days of my life" and "if you buy me those shoes, I'm just going to freak out every time you put them on me."
I bought the grey shoes.
I'll spare the details from the rest of our shoe shopping experience, where Abigail stopped being witty and only slightly fresh to being just plain ugly. I left the store quite embarrassed.
We talked about the things on the car ride home and came to an understanding. (Abigail has always been able to reason, sometimes it just takes a while to get there). She was kind enough to apologize for her behavior and told me she loved me, "even if you did buy me ugly grey shoes."
Amelia's Pre K Pictures
August 20th, 2009
Little Miss Independent didn't even want want hold our hand as she walked into the school. She followed the signs right up to her new class room. Outside the room on the wall there was a board with all the kids names on it.
She found her name out of the 18 students.
She instantly warmed up to the female teacher Mrs. Kersanac (there's two teachers, a boy and girl). She told her she knew how to write her name and sat right down and showed her.
The teachers talked a bit, mostly to the parents explaining things, but they did have all the kids sit down while they read a story to them. Mr. Thurman, the male teacher, sang a song to them. He has an extensive background in music and we've heard great things about him.
Her best friend Zari is also in her class!
