First Day of School Update!

We made it through the end of summer! I feel like I can think about life again now that summer is over.

We went in Friday to meet for about 15 minutes with Miciah and her teacher, Mrs. Parker. Mrs. Parker is nice and showed Miciah where her seat was and her cubby and all that stuff. Then she had Miciah write her name. She told Miciah that it was great, but that she would be expected to write in the correct lowercase and uppercase now. Miciah seemed not quite to know how to respond to that. But she immediately corrected her H to an h and handed it back to the teacher. Then, all weekend, she practiced her name (she wasn't quite sure how to do a lowercase a). Over and over and over. Until she got it down. She wrote it on paper. She colored it in coloring books. She wrote it in chalk on the front porch. Then she would run and say, "Mom, Mom! Come look! I wrote my name right and went, 'Yesss!' " Too cute.

First Day of Kindergarten

Miciah's first day of school was Monday. She has afternoon Kindergarten, which will work splendidly for us, I think. But Monday she woke up and asked about every 15 minutes from the moment she woke up if it was time for school yet. No. No. No, no, no, no. Finally, at 12:25 she sat down in front of the VCR and watched the clock. I had told her that at 12:30 we could walk to the bus stop. My mom tried to distract her by asking her to put her clothes away. She said she didn't want to. I told her it would help the time go by quicker. She said, unconvinced, "How?" Well, then you wouldn't just be staring at the clock. She got up and got the clothes. During that time the clock turned to 12:26. As she walked to her room, she glanced at the clock and said, "6! Yes!" Too funny.

We walked to the bus stop and the bus was very late. Late on her first day of school. Bummer. We also had our first real experience with how we shouldn't touch litter. You don't need details, all you need to know is GROSS! ...


While Miciah was gone, Elijah said, "Mom, where is Ciah?" I told him she was at school. He said, "But I want her!" It was cute. I think he'll miss her, but I also think the time will be really good for him. And it'll be nice to have the house not be so loud.

Second Day of Kindgergarten

She came back from school talking a mile a minute about how the day went! She was excited and ready to go back the next day. Fortunately, she wasn't quite as obsessed with the time yesterday. Elijah saw her off at the bus and was excited to go to school, too! He was a little disappointed that he didn't get to go, but still, excited just to see the bus.

She came home from her second day of school. I asked her how school was on her second day. She said, "Boring." Boring? Well, what did you do? "Nothing. We didn't do anything!" :) It's funny to me that the first day was exciting and the second day was boring. She told Grandma it was boring because they didn't get to play. Grandma told her that you go to school to work, not to play, so sometimes it might be boring. I thought that was a good answer.

Kids

And that's our main update. Miciah is now a Kindergartener and that's great. Elijah is still Elijah. He's cute and full-speed ahead. Teancom is still SO dang cute. He can stand up on his own and we'll stand him up and put our arms out and try to get him to walk towards the other person. He just laughs and either sits down or falls forward. Won't even take a step. But he's happy and healthy and that's wonderful. We take him in for a doctor's appointment tomorrow. A little late on his 1 year check-up. It's a new doc who hopefully won't be obsessed about the fact that he's a little behind on the walking milestone.

No More Cats, But We Still Have Ringworm

Oh, on other fronts. We gave Fumasa back to C along with our two cats, Cleo and Ceasar. It's a little sad to be without them. They're good cats. But it's also nice to not have to hassle with some of the things that are a hassle when you have cats. ... All of us have ringworm. Rob was the last holdout, but he has it now, too. We assume the ringworm is from the cats (C's kids have it, too, and had it first), but they couldn't find any ringworm spots on Fumasa (whom we assume is the culprit), and so they can't treat it. We are all being treated for it. We didn't have it officially diagnosed, but you treat it with over-the-counter stuff, so I figured it doesn't matter. We will ask the doc about it tomorrow, though. Teancom and Rob have 1 spot a piece. Miciah and Elijah have 2. And I'm the lucky one with 4 (and maybe a 5th if this random thing on my eyelid is one, too). Fun, fun.

And who knew that ringworm is a fungus? I guess a lot of people do, but I didn't. It should be a worm, shouldn't it, if it's called ringworm? Like roundworm. Or hookworm. Those are worms. But no, it's a fungus. Though I suppose ringworm sounds better than ringfungus.

So that's our news. Hope all is well for everyone!

Two pictures of my sleeping babies. I watched them sleeping and wanted to take pictures of them. They're not as enchanting in the pictures as when I was looking at them, but they're still cute. And the one of Teancom spotlights him sucking on those 2 fingers he thinks are tasty.

Tamra, Rob, Miciah, Elijah, and Teancom (with no cats, though we still have fish)