CCC: Pictures of Lillian

Lillian is officially in the Pre-K room all the time now. She's learning letters, numbers, pre-reading skills, charts and graphs.

Love the 80s fashion sense in this first picture: 

Lump on Simon's head

Simon comes home from school during his 3rd week of Kindergarten and he has a solid lump on his head. It's pretty noticeable and I'm surprised the teacher didn't call me to tell me about it (it was big).

I ask him what happened. He gets a dodgy look on his face and says he fell. I prompt him, he says he fell in the bathroom. I push more, "Did the teacher talk to you about it?" He said yes, that he told her he fell and that he was ok. Which is true, he seems totally fine... But I'm still curious - what was he doing in the bathroom that made him fall? He evaded, I pushed. 

HE WAS TRYING TO SPY ON THE STALL AND FACE PLANTED ON TO THE FLOOR. 

I laugh out loud every time I think of it now but somehow managed not to laugh when he told me. Instead I said that he knew he wasn't supposed to look under those doors.  I'm a model of restraint. Though now I know why he didn't want to tell me or the teacher what happened!


Picture is from 2 days later... Lump under the cowlick is pretty noticeable still.

CCC: Pictures of Lillian

Here are some great pictures of Lillian from the past week. We have really enjoyed getting back to school and a more structured routine! We are still enjoying our weekly enrichment classes like yoga and cooking class, and have also added Spanish to our curriculum. Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!

Lillian's Bad Dream

Lillian had her first bad dream where she woke up crying and yelling no no no. (Around midnight Friday night) Alan swooped in and calmed her down and she was quick to settle and fall back asleep. About 30 minutes later she pounded down the hall, yelling 'ahhhh' the whole way, with Baby clutched in one arm and Digit in the other.  She said she dreamed of falling rocks.

Simon's First Day of Kindergarten

How crazy is it that Simon is 5 years old and starting Kindergarten already! He was so excited to start that he ran all the way from home to school. Once we got into the playground we had about 15 minutes of play time before lineup, then some waiting in line for the kids to all file in. The waiting broke him - he got really nervous and by the time it was his line's turn he was clinging to me. I ended up having to pry him off me and hand him to the principal. But I was later told by one of the assistants that as soon as he got into the room he settled right down and ended up having a great day.

Simon will be in room 110 with Ms. Weisensel this year. There are 57 Kindergarteners at Hamilton and two classrooms. The rooms do some activities together and some separately. As a whole, Hamilton has about 450 students Pre-K through 8th grade.

Simon is in the YMCA after school program daily and will be joining 2 after school activities - Chess and Robotics. The YMCA program does sports, crafts and story times.

At Hamilton Elementary

Family Visit to Boston August 2016

Another amazing trip to Boston at the end of this summer.

Emily and Simon visiting Gabe and Elisa at Martha's Vineyard

When we were in Boston, Simon and I took a day to travel down to Martha's Vineyard to see Gabe and Elisa and their now huge kids. Lorenzo is 11 (!) and Julian is 6. Simon and I woke at 6 and were on the road in short order. We took the first ferry across to the Vineyard and got picked up by Julian, Gabe and Elisa. Julian is such a joyful, outgoing kid that Simon immediately was hanging out with him like they'd known each other for ages.

First things first, the little boys hunted the yard for bugs while we adults talked. The boys got into the pool and swam a bit, we had an amazing lunch, walked through town and went to the beach. Simon saw moon jelly fish and spent quite a lot of time saving the ones that were washing up on shore. We swam in the salty water (which I made him taste and he was astonished by) and then Gabe went to get the car so we didn't have to walk home. We swam and cleaned up and then Simon and I caught the last ferry back to the mainland.  We had an uneventful ride home and were both tired but happy the next day. 

Simon (5) and Julian (6) caught a slug in the back yard.

First time at the Ocean

Finding Moon Jelly Fish on the beach and throwing them back in the water to save them.

Simon (5) and Lorenzo (11) playing Legos.
Building Lego ships and then sailing them in the back yard pool.

Swimming in the Ocean.

Ferry Ride Home