Fall–and we have definitely settled into a school year routine

Friends

So there’s not that much to tell, really.  Nothing that’s all that new.  We’re in the midst of the school year and that basically means that the weekdays follow a predictable pattern of school and after-school activities. 

Weekends are where it’s at, and even those have a bit of a routine to them with swim lessons on Sundays. 

This last weekend we had a movie night on Friday and watched “Madagascar 3” and consumed massive amounts of popcorn.  Saturday we ran errands and then Rachel went to a sleepover at Grandma Babe’s place. 

 

 

Harrison Jr. and Harrison Sr. joined Daniel and Eric for the Rollerdolls bout, and then Harrison Jr. had his own little sleepover at our place which lasted until swim lessons on Sunday.

And that’s really it for excitement around here.

 

There are some fun things coming up though.  Fall break starts next week, and even though we’re not doing anything then, we’ve got a trip to Thailand on the books, and the super-secret Christmas plan (see pictures) is coming together… Shhhhh…

 

Until next time

 

Love, ADRE.  

Some art, a bike ride and not much else

 

Howdy friends.

It seems that we’ve been somewhat delinquent about taking the cameras out with us lately, and as a result, we’re a bit low on pictures from the last couple of weeks.

 

Rachel outgrew her bike – or at least she got close enough to doing so that it was time to get her a new one.  So she now has pretty much the same wheels as Daniel does, and the larger size has her strong little legs just FLYING forward.  We took a bike trip yesterday that ended up being 16 miles.  OK, so most of that was flat-or-downhill, and we took the lightrail back from University station, but still –> excellent performance all around.

 

Swim lessons have  started again.  Rachel has “Mark” and is in the truly deep end of the pool for the first time.  Daniel has his favorite –> JohnO, and is doing quite well – the teachers over at Aquakickz do an amazing job.

 

Fall festival should have been this last weekend, but it got rained out, so we had a playdate at our place instead. 

 

On Mondays, both Daniel and Rachel are in the Art class after school program, and since they’re in the same class, with the same topics/subjects, we get to see comparative art.  Unfortunately all of these were cut off just a little by the scanner, but you get the idea.

 

 

We’ve been reading “the hobbit” at bedtime, and that’s been very popular, though it’s not exactly kid-friendly language, they’ve really been into it.  Rachel was the first in her class to meet her library reading challenge (1200 pages of which 500 had to be non-fiction) and got to “Spin the pig” at the library – a goofy tradition by the librarian, but one that the kids really seem to enjoy.

And that’s about it for this time around. 

Love, ADRE.

Snow!

First snowball and snowman of the season....