School Starts (Pandemic Edition)

In an effort to social distance, our school district decided to split the kids up alphabetically and have them attend 2 days a week, the rest being online. Our days are Mondays and Wednesdays. They were SO excited to go back. I was too. ;) It's been nice being together for so long, really, but Jaxon needs to continue working on his social skills, and that can't happen without being around other kids. Add in the Chinese immersion factor and back to school they went. They have to wear masks in the building at all times and each desktop has a tri-fold, transparent wall.

Jaxon is in 3rd grade now. He chose a Boxcar Children Book- he read a ton of those over the summer.

Violet is now in first grade. All day school, plus her first year of Chinese. She chose her Princess book, always a favorite.

And Ginger started preschool! I was nervous she'd have a hard time since Sunbeams was a bit traumatic for her, but it looks like she's grown up a little since March. :) She was so excited! Her school is on our same street, so it's super nice just walking her over. She skips and giggles the whole way there, she just loves it (and so do I- she's really been needing this!)

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She'll have two years of preschool, which I'm fine with since it'll give her more time to learn English.

Everybody has loved going back to school. After being away since March, it's been a welcomed change!

End of Summer

We've been having lots of fun the past month. A couple days before school started we spent a morning picking berries at McBrides. The kids always love it so much, it's been a fun tradition. We used them to make jam later on.

The older kids had a sleepover at Mamie's with cousins. They had been looking forward to this for a long time.

Violet goes to the ice rink a couple times a week to practice. This day there was only one other person on the ice besides Violet. She thought it was great!

Violet left this note in her tooth bag (with her tooth) under her pillow for the tooth fairy. Guess money isn't enough anymore?

"Tooth fairy, please give me all kinds of powers."

Brad and Kami invited us to their cabin their building on Labor Day. The kids loved exploring and riding the four-wheeler.

We're excited for school to start!