Back To School
After six weeks of summer we are starting back to school again. Watching your kids grow a little more each school year, is always a bitter-sweet moment that tugs at the heart strings, this year especially, as Kenzly is starting High School!
Kimball is looking (and feeling) very cool in his new clothes and sunglasses (which he picked out himself - a new thing for him to show a "fashion" interest).
Kierra is transitioning from sweet 1st grader to a 2nd Grader who thinks she knows what's going on in the world. When it comes to fashion, she really does know what's going on! She picked out some adorable "hip" clothes for school.
Karsten in another 3 weeks will be starting Pre-School - that is IF he decides to be a "big boy" and graduate out of diapers. The clock is ticking!
Meet the Teacher night at Patterson Elementary
Kimball 5th Grade - Mrs. Kross
Kierra 2nd Grade - Miss Miller
Kierra & Karsten in the halls of Patterson Elementary
THE BUS!
Kenzly going to Freshman orientation day the Friday before school starts and her first time riding the bus! Since she has zero hour, she will only ride the bus home, which she isn't thrilled about. Go figure, when she first started school as a Kindergartener, she was disappointed she couldn't ride the bus because we lived behind the school and since then, have always lived within walking distance. Now that she's finally on a bus route, she's complaining loudly!
First Day of School - July 23rd
Kenzly's first day as a Freshman at Basha High - Go Bears!
All Seminary Students are required to take a zero hour class in order to have enough credits to graduate. Zero hour starts at 6:30 am! The days of sleeping in until 8 am (or later)
are now over and the hour is 5 am!
Luckily, Rigdon & Kolton Hassell (our ward neighbors one street away) are willing to pick her up and take her to school. Kenzly doesn't even mind being the only girl with four other boys in the car :)
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| Kenzly almost 14 and growing up fast! |
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| Karsten, Kimball and Kierra - waiting for the bus |
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| Cool Kimball |
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| Fashion Forward Kierra |
First Day of Preschool for Karsten!
The day the older kids started school, we started potty training officially. Karsten and I made a Thomas the Tank Engine potty chart, put on underwear, and went to the store for stickers and incentive toys. It all went great for the first few hours, until the last stop at the Post Office where we had to stand in line for about 10 minutes. Just as I was almost finished paying, I looked around the room for Karsten and found he was no where in sight. A woman coming into the post office must have recognized the panicked look on my face and asked if I had a small boy. After telling her yes, she told me he was in the car with the keys. Without my knowing, he'd gotten the keys and crossed the busy parking lot all by himself. When I got to the car he was inside and had peed all over the floor! Despite the setback, we continued to try for the next three weeks. The day before Preschool was to start, I considered just giving up and trying to find another school where he could go in diapers. But, we went to the orientation and decided to send him to school today in a pull up! (Since then, he has been doing better and hasn't had any accidents at preschool at least, but he has no problem walking around the house in wet pants.)! All too soon he will be grown up and I will look back and laugh at the day my struggle was so small in comparison :)
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| Karsten - 3 years old at Mrs. Farnsworths' Preschool |
Mrs. Farnsworth handing out musical instruments for the kids to march together to the classroom!
Since this isn't Kindergarten I'm really excited to have him go to school twice a week from 9-11:30. But, I'll be really sad when he's gone all day. Luckily we still have three years!
