Fall is here and so are the clean up chores. Some chores just seem to attract kids and fun, and raking leaves is one of those chores.
Ethan and I went out one day to rake up leaves. We had assembled a large pile of leaves when the girls discovered what we were up to and came outside with their giggles to join us.
This past week we had two first days at school. Ellie started grade one with homeschooling and Adelaine had her first day of Kindergarten.
Adelaine has been asking almost every day for the last six months how many days it was until she started school. When the big day arrived she was very excited! Despite the size of her backpack with all her school supplies for the year, she insisted on wearing it. She is so petite that it almost pulled her over backwards a couple of times. After her first week she is still thrilled about going to school and looking forward to her next school day.
Ellie seems to be doing very well with the homeschool and is thriving with the one-to-one attention from her mom.. er.. teacher.
Ellie has now lost her 3rd tooth. She had been wiggling it around for weeks and we tried to pull it out several times, but it was just not coming out. The tooth was so loose she would often stick it outside her mouth and smile.
Our little Hillbilly.
A few days ago Ellie had a snack and the tooth almost fell out. It was just hanging by a bit, so she asked me to pull it out.
Very excited to have it out.
The new smile.
After an hour, Ellie was sad that the tooth had finally came out. She had been playing with the loose tooth with her tongue so much that she missed it. She was actually crying when she told Naomi that she was sad because “I lost the toy in my mouth.”
It would seem that we have a new tradition when we return to New Brunswick. We head out to Cape Pele beach for some seafood and a walk on the beach with my family. This is where we have introduced each of our kids to the Atlantic Ocean. This time we made the trip on our first day back in the Maritimes. It does my heart good to see big water with that wonderful salt smell.
Mmm.. Good day.
I’ve been teaching Ellie about deconstructionism.
Or maybe it is better called destructionism. I needed to dispose of a very old laptop from work, but before taking it to the recycling place, I wanted to get the hard drive out, and… got carried away. I asked Ellie if she wanted to help take it apart and we just kept going. Before I got the tools out to destroy it, I found Ellie jumping on the screen while Adelaine was banging on the keyboard. Pent up computer angst already?
She was so impressed with this stuff she wanted to take a bunch of it to show-and-tell at kindergarten the next day. So I sent her along with a bag full of parts, including the computer’s fans that could be connected to a 9v battery, the keyboard, ram chips, the spinning motor from the DVD, and a bunch of other parts.
