On the last week before school started, I took both kids to this great, free indoor church playground near our home. Maya loved having Collin join her, and at 8am, we had the place to ourselves!
Collin's cousins - and my brother-in-law and sister-in-law - invited Collin for his first sleepover. He had a great time, and we met at the Children's Museum to pick him up and share more fun with family. The strong boys showing off their muscles -
Maya had her fair share of play dates and activities on our Mondays and Fridays together. Two Mondays this year, we've been able to meet one of my best friends for Maya to play with her daughter -
Some days we hang around the house (in our pajamas) and use up bottles of Spin Art paint -
I picked Maya up from school one day to see her "reading" to her classmates. Her teachers had read the book earlier in the day, and she remembered quite a bit, retelling the story in dramatic fashion!
One Friday we watched Collin's school performance, the annual Friday morning patriotic sing-a-long
And then hit up a neighborhood park -
On a Saturday afternoon in September, we were supposed to meet up with our 3rd grade mentee at the Children's Museum. With plans up in the air, communications broke down, and it ended up just being the kids and me at the museum over Maya's nap time. They had a great time!
We spent forever in the restaurant, writing down the orders with great concentration -
Collin's writing has improved so much, seen by the fact that he voluntarily tried to write out my order
Maya was a serious waitress with a lot on her tray -
We were able to spend a Sunday afternoon with cousins involving countless rounds of hide & seek -
On a Saturday morning at 7:15am, we were at our neighborhood park for a race to support an organization sharing the gospel through radios in Sudan. Collin ran his first race - a 1k - and then told everyone he was a marathon runner.
Collin had a virus and was home Thursday and Friday. Thursday he vegged out with hours of tv time, but Friday he started feeling better so we did a lot more activities. We built train sets -
We did science experiments, played games, read a chapter book, did some math activities - as Collin called it, we "played school." He had a great time and wrote his teacher a note about his time off.
The following Monday was a school holiday, and Collin was disappointed to have another day off school after being absent the previous two school days. We love that he enjoys school, but I'm also thankful we had a fun day meeting my mom at the zoo -
Crawling through the tunnel that is within an aquarium -
Success on the carousel - Maya requested to sit on a bench, and though it felt like a waste of a ticket, she was happy as could be -
Who knew a bench could be this exciting?
Last stop - reptile house (this is usually when I'm melting down with hunger and ready to wrap up the zoo visit) -
Sometimes it takes some bribery to get through the grocery store. The mess with this popsicle didn't occur until we got to the car. Parenting fail!
In October, we were able to connect with our 3rd grade mentee, with Cas picking him up and meeting the kids and me from a soccer game at the Children's Museum for take two of our Saturday afternoon/early evening plans. Posing before Tallandis arrived by the Halloween scenery -
I had seen a cute mother-daughter pose on Pinterest that I wanted to try in our upcoming annual family photo session. Collin snapped one of Maya kissing me in one take -
When Maya took on the photographer role for the same picture, these were the results -
Collin is on a more intense soccer league this year. It's not ideal, mostly because he doesn't love soccer and doesn't have that aggressive, competitive drive in this sport yet. I wish some other friends had stayed in the low-key church league, but every single 1st grade boy from his school who played soccer seemed to play in the league where they needed a copy of his birth certificate to confirm I wasn't lying about his age! Anyway, his blue team played another team made up of his classmates and we took a group photo -
In mid-October, my wonderful mom spent the night to watch the kids while Cas and I attended the elementary school charity auction, and then stayed the night at the hotel followed by a late brunch on Saturday. She on the other hand, had Maya wake up at 5:15am and had to get both kids to the soccer game at 7:45 in the morning. We love her so and had a great early-anniversary mini-vacation!
Character dress up day - Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - a book we had read earlier in the fall -
Picking out pumpkins by the store -
Celebrating our last day of Monday music class for the season, a great hour I was able to spend with Maya at a local church for about 9 weeks this fall -
We've had a fun fall so far!
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