Last week on Tuesday Sept 27 we went to Sophia's new school, Ellen Hopkins Elementary, for the Open House. Sophia loved practicing "circle time" with her new teacher, Maestra ("teacher")!
Sophia outside of Ellen Hopkins. It's hard for me to remember that this school is JUST an elementary and not a middle or high school; it's so big!
Travis took these pics of Sophia playing with a monarche butterfly on our front porch
Kaia's teacher at the Academy for Children took these pics of Kaia playing on her last day of "school!" Kaia now goes to Early Explorers for one hour every day, which is where Sophia takes the bus to after school. I am SO glad that I found a place that they can both go to so that I can pick them up at the same time!
This red thingy was consistently Kaia's favorite toy at the Academy
We were very sad to leave the Academy, which has been the only childcare facility I have ever taken my children to! So far Early Explorers is fine, but we do miss our Academy friends.
On Friday Sophia had her first day of gymnastics (since last fall). She's a "red star" this year, and gets to do much more interesting stuff!
This seems to be the beginning pose for any activity...
backwards somersault!
Balance Beam
On Friday evening I rode Margie for the first time since she injured her tendon 11 months ago. It has been a long (expensive!) road to recovery, and so this was a very special 1-mile ride. Margie did GREAT... she stepped out eagerly and was a little feisty and didn't seem to tire.
I just love Margie!
That's a lot of weight on that injured tendon! (Right foreleg). She has come such a long way!
Sophia and I spent a little extra time in the garden this weekend. We've been neglecting it right when it's starting to offer up an abundance of treats!
These are Sophia's Morning Glories that she picked out and planted. I was a little shocked to find them blooming!
Our carrots are finally edible-size!
Cantaloupes... these seem to be doing well, but I have no idea at what point they are ripe??!! They're getting big; I may have to experiment with one soon!
Ugh... tomatoes. The plants never grew very big, so thank goodness I have like 20 of them!
Ugh... green peppers. They're about the size of a quarter!
This is the biggest variety from the garden yet! Corn, squash, green beans, chives, peas, carrots, and cherry and Big Boy tomatoes!
On Sunday our friends Joe and Mandy came over with their kids and hung out while Travis and I went for our first trail ride together. Travis rode Bella and (after she freaked out at the hitching post for no reason and snapped a cedar post and snapped a lead line) she did really well! ;) I rode Sunny, who was honest, willing and mellow as ever.
My favorite view is the landscape through a pair of horse ears!
Travis on his cell, checking on the kids :)
This is the path we found off of the gravel road, about 3 miles away from our house.
Of course the path eventually ended so... we knew our house was somewhere to the southwest...
A beautiful place to get a little bit lost :)
I was trying to snap a pic of this lowland in the prairie, where the grass was a high as the horses! Bella and Sunny are both EXCELLENT trail horses, and went right through/over/around whatever we needed them to.
Back at the house! Joe and Mandy's brood: Miles, Ella and Lily. You can't see Kaia behind Lily; they were all crawling around the house like Kaia!
Joe swung by on Monday for a quick ride on Travis' bike. He's trying to convince Mandy that he needs a bike. Us poor ladies with our crazy men!
I took Margie for one more little ride on Monday evening. Just a little bit further. She still did great!
First day of school! I was up at 5:45 to start getting everyone ready for the day.
Sophia's backpack and lunch sack, ready to rock!
I woke Sophia up just after 6:30am
She was excited!
She picked out an outfit that her Aunt Laura gave her for her birthday :)
At her school!
Outside her classroom!
Her cubby and closet
She was so excited!
I had to take this picture... I certainly didn't have a row of Macs in my kindergarten room! ;)
Checking out some of the materials
A last pic before I ducked out... it was so hard to leave her! She seemed to have a great day though, and was rattling off new Spanish vocabulary (she's in a Spanish-immersion class) and told me about her activities and highlights and we celebrated with Dairy Queen treats after school. :) I can't believe my baby Sophia is in kindergarten!!!!
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