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Home School

Lucy was home sick for the third day. She was feeling better so we got some school work in. I am hoping she can return tomorrow. Maggie also stayed home. She has been a little stuffy, but mainly I don't want to take the girls out in the cold.

Maggie was supposed to learn about the letter R this week. We read R books, colored R pages and played with things that begin with R in a pan of rice.

Lucy practicing her spelling words.

Burrying the letter caps in rice.

Rainbow!!!

Practicing math on the computer.

Hi All

Wow...it has been a while since I posted here. The other day, Lucy had to complete a timeline for her school including pictures. Of course she forgot to bring it home and then we had just one day to finish the project. It was so nice to grab pictures from the blog and get her assignment done. I told myself then that I needed to work harder keeping this up, but alas it didn't happen.

We got a new downstairs couch last night from IKEA. Poor Lucy was home sick today from school.

Lucy got her hair bobbed on Monday. She wanted it shorter, but I talked her into this length so we could still have pig tails.

We had Maggie's teacher conference last week at school. She is doing great. Her teacher loves how outgoing Maggie is, but she needs to work on not grabbing or interrupting.

Lucy at the park on Monday (we were off for President's day)

Our new downstairs bathroom. After one month of having a contractor visit M-F/7a-3p, we have a glorious new tub.

RIP Coolpix L22

Last week I let Maggie use my camera to take some photos. She got a good one of her trucks and giraffes.

Rocking Chair Cushion

Spiderman Ball

Camera Dropper - AKA Maggie

Last shot before Maggie dropped the camera on the bathroom counter. Moral of the story; don't let your 3 year old play with your camera even if it buys you 10 minutes of peace to do a task that you really needed to get done, but can't remember what it was now.

Old Dog

Libby turns 9 this month. I don't know her exact birthday so we celebrate it on the first day of fall. She has started to slow down a bit, but senior food and a daily glucosamine vitamin seem to help.

Daisy has kept us busy this summer. She got sprayed by skunks three times. She does not like the camera. I think Maggie chased her with it one too many times.

Jon got back from Albany, New York last night. Jon stayed at the Stockade Inn and was there training for GE Global Research. The girls are glad to have him home and have kept him busy playing.

From new iPhone

Maggie and Lucy on the computer.

Maggie's First Day at First Friends

Maggie had a wonderful first day of preschool today. She was very excited to go. So excited that she woke up at 6:30 and shouted to the world, "I get to go to school today!!!" At school there were only two other students in the class. 3 more are supposed to start later in the month.

Since we were up early, we had time to do a fancy braid. Maggie wanted to make sure everone saw it and her backpack. She didn't want a new one, instead she is using the one Lucy had for preschool.

Maggie took this picture of Lucy drinking her morning cup of apple juice. She is settling nicely into first grade. They are still getting used to attending a full day, reviewing letters and other kindergarten basics and learning the routine and rules.

The girls singing, "School!" Maggie said she sang 5 songs at school today. The friend Song, ABCs, Open Them Shut Them, Itsy Bitsy Spider, and The Goodbye Song. Maggie really likes singing and was happy that the teacher played the Piano. Maggie said her favorite part about school was the slide (Ms. Bosaki went down too), singing, All of it!!!!

Wow...they sure are colorful.

School Time

Lucy had her first day of 1st grade today. She has been really excited about getting back to school. Several of her friends from Kindergarten are in her class. It is hard to get her to say much, but the over all report was, "I had to whisper. We had a picnic with catsup and mustard (she told me this when I asked her why there was pink icing all over her face), and her favorite part was after school recess (we always stay and play at the playgroud 15 minutes after school).

Lucy wanted to make sure I got a picture of her lunch box. We have been having practice lunches to make sure Lucy can open different things. She did a good job eating what I packed (PB&J, grapes, cheeze-its, mini 3 muskateer and capri sun) most of it was gone. When I picked her up the straw wrapper was in her hair. Maggie really wanted her picture taken too. She is excited to start preschool in a couple of weeks. She keeps asking how many sleeps until her school starts.

Jon came with us to drop Lucy off at school. Lucy was rushing to catch up with Daddy. Maggie loved having Daddy home for the morning. He made us first day of school pancakes, brewed the coffee and pushed Maggie extra high on the swing.

Lucy's Birthday braids. The day before Lucy's birthday we got her hair done and braided. I meant to post pictures, but it was summer and we got lots of nothing done. I think I will rename summer "later". We stayed up later, we played later, we slept later, we ate later and we did lots of stuff, but put most off for later. Such as birthday thank you notes. They will be in the mail later (hopefully by the end of the week).

Our beautiful, wonderful, brillant 6-year-old first grader.

Greetings

Things are going well in Bolingbrook.

Happy Birthday Jon & Robin

The girls giving Jon birthday snuggles on 3/17.

Cake

Blowing out the candles.

Cake again.

More wishin'

Merry Monday

Maggie got a new bed over the weekend. She really likes it and is sleeping through the night. WooHooo!

Maggie had everyone try out her new bed to see how comfy it is.

The girls had a great time at dance class this morning. They like to do tricks.

Close Ups

Lucy lost her first tooth this morning. She just pushed it out with her tongue and put it under her pillow. She is so excited to have a gap.

Maggie has a cold and has been super stuffy the last couple of days. She is Not a good patient. She does not like to rest and take it easy, so it takes her longer to get over her sickies.

Lucy and Maggie helped Jon paint the front closet over the weekend. The sliding door broke some time ago, so Jon rehung it with hinges. This left some unpainted parts showing, but now it is the most beautifully painted closet in town.

Maggie turned the playroom couch into a Jazzercise stage. The girls like to practice with me. My tryout to become an instructor is 2/10.

Lucy likes to dance on stage too. The girls are in the same Ballet/Tap class at the park district and will be in a recital together this May.

Away in the Manger

Lucy and Maggie had fun putting together this nativity scene and playing with it today.

From our new laptop

Well...the fan on the graphics card on our desktop computer broke. Now we have a laptop. Let's see if the photos upload quicker using this. If they do, you might start seeing more frequent posts.

Last weekend we went to see Santa at Bass Pro. The girls had a wonderful time. P.S. it seems to be our connection and not the computer that is slowing down the uploads. Jon says new router will help. Maybe Santa will bring us one

Happy 3rd Birthday Maggie

Maggie was the STAR OF THE WEEK at school this week. She got to bring a poster, pick the snack to bring, and bring something for show and tell. She decided to bring Lucy, so Lucy read 10 in the Bed to the class. Lucy did a great job and it was great to meet and spend the morning with Maggie's class.

Maggie got to pick most of what we did today. She was quick to ask to paint. She made several Spooky Red Spider Webs.

She also played lots of Thomas and made tons of pretend birthday cakes.

For supper she chose to have macaroni AND white sauce noodles on big girl plates.

Maggie had lots of fun with her birthday crown. As the day came to a close Lucy got the stuffies. Luckily Daddy came home from a big work bye-bye late this evening. That means we will get more birthday celebrating tomorrow and even more on Saturday when we go downtown to see Good Night Moon the Musical with Ray and Linda.