Avas first soccer goal!

Ava scored her first goal today! She was so excited and proud of herself. We are so happy for her!

Dog Days of Summer

N is now walking about 95 percent of the time.

My cuties!

Ava's First Day of School

Here she is! Her comments were:

-"The girls didn't make fun of me"

-"There wasn't play time, just story time" (after I left)

All the parents pretty much stayed there the whole time. They had a scavenger hunt around the classroom, made a face of themselves, hung pictures of their families, read, did puzzles, and more. It was great!

She wore the same dress I did my first day of school.

Changes

Ava starts school tomorrow. My mom asked, " Are you excited about it?" After thinking about it, I really discovered that I am not. Ava is over the moon excited. But to a mom this step ushers in more shuttling kids back and forth, less time for doing whatever the heck we want to do, and a little more peer pressure both for Ava and for me. It's not that I want her to stay a baby forever, it is more out of a love for our somewhat isolated life. For some reason I have always felt extreme expectations from others. I do realize that life will always move faster than I can keep up with, and I do realize that I have to live my own life, not anyone else's, but homeschooling for preschool has completely taken out that element of life/stress. Ava is smart, she had a father's blessing last night and she is ready. Here we go!