School!!!

Well, I realize that this is a little late but wanted to get the blog going again...

 

Brody is in first grade and loving school!!! He really loves to learn and have plenty of friends. He really makes friends easily. For the first few weeks he would come home and count how many friends he had made at school. We love that he can make friends so well.  He really would count his whole class as his friends because I truly believe he wants everyone to be his friend.  But now that he is over halfway through this school year he is recognizing those that are really his friends.
The schools here are a little different there are two elementary schools but are split up as Brody's school is k-2 and the other school is 3-6.

This year he was on his schools cross country team. He really loved the races! He did not really like the practices, I think it was because he just had to run laps around the play ground. The races where set up at parks that had trails to run. Guess he likes the variety.  He did great for his first time on a cross country team. He probably averaged 13-15 minute mile. I think the hardest thing was for me, it was hard letting him run the races knowing I could not see him the entire time and the coaches did not run with them. He did great and he always finished, even when he fell and really banged himself up! He didn't even come in last!!!! I was a proud mama at that time!!!!

Camilla is in her first and last year of preschool.  We started out that I was going to do home school for her pre-k.  We just didn't want to have to pay for it and really I could do it.  We had inquired about a few schools so we had people at those schools that knew we were looking... after a few weeks of doing home school at home the preschool at Brody's school called and they said they opened up their school to the general public and not just a special education preschool and that it was free. So really we could not pass up a free preschool that my little girl could be in an inclusive class. It has been great to watch her learn about differences in people and to watch her stand up for those children in her class when people try to make fun of them. Another proud mama moment.

Camilla loves learning and going to class. She is great at her numbers and has really picked up math quickly. It is funny that she could really careless about letters, well except for the ones in her name. So we are really working on letters now and making them fun.

I am so grateful for having children that as of right now love to learn and we hope that it stays this way!!!

Other things the kids have started this year is Brody started piano lessons and I think he is tolerating it. But he is doing very well at it.  Camilla really wants to start and I think she is ready so I might get her started also. They have also picked up riding bikes and want to do it all the time. I love they love it. Brody has started now on no training wheels, he is so cautious that this might take awhile but he is determined.