Starting September

Claire

She is still enjoying school and loves to tell us what she learned when we go pick her up at the end of the day. I’m looking for more ideas on how to get her to eat a little more while she is away from me. They learned their names this week, and how to spell, write, and introduce themselves. As far as I know, she already knew how to do all that, but she was learning her new classmates' names in the process. Claire’s new caterpillar pet is living in a jar and she is so obsessed with wanting to take it places that I had to lay down the law. Hopefully, it doesn’t die with all the handling she has done so far and we can see it cocoon and transform. Don’t know what it is yet…

Shay

It has become a little easier to say goodbye to Claire when the bus comes to pick her up, but she still gets sad. I’m getting better at distracting her and doing fun things with her while she is bored without Claire. We went to the library twice this week because I took Shay for story time on Wednesday and then Claire was jealous and we went again on Friday. They checked out books about caterpillars because Grandma Bell found one in the garden right before we left and they now have a pet.

Parade

We went to the parade in town that was a kick-off for the fair that is going on in Eastern Idaho. The girls were excited, to begin with, but it was hot and they got impatient from the beginning and didn’t have a lot of candy. Claire went off to find a shade with a few of her cousins and Grandma Bell. Shay stayed for a while but was hot and tired before it was entirely done and we missed a little at the end. It was pretty busy and we still got enough candy to make them happy though.