It started out early (as it usually does with our early to bed, early to rise kidlets!)!!
First thing on the agenda, was registering Emerson in our community preschool - Lago Lindo preschool. We hope Emerson will get into the 100 Voices program at Bishop Savaryn (where Blake is going to K) but if she does not get funding, we won't be sending her! $250 a month is a bit too much for us to justify for a preschool program! I don't think she'll be funded, as the funding is based on an OT/PT/SLP assessment and as far as we can tell she does not have any issues in her speech, gross or fine motor skills. But you never know!! Her assessment is on April 30th and our fingers are crossed, as the 100 Voices program sounds amazing!! I have heard that they 'try' hard to fund children, as the funding they receive from the school board far exceeds the $250/month parents pay ... so we'll see! Registering her in Lago Lindo is a back-up plan, but a fine one at that. Since Blake was small, I've always heard how great it is! We didn't register Blake in it for a few reasons, one of which was the volunteer commitments and having 3 kids 3 and under at the time!! But the kids are getting older and our time is a bit more flexible, so we should be able to manage the fundraising and volunteering that is required. And speaking of preschool, we got some exciting news on Friday ... a spot has opened up in Blake's Thursday morning preschool class!! So Emerson will start attending with her big bro, beginning in April! Blake and Em are both very excited!!
When I got home from preschool registration, we were off to Blake's last initiation 1 ice time! It was a lot of fun to watch the kids play a real hockey game ... and very entertaining!! One little guy took the puck to the net he was facing every time he had it on his stick! It didn't matter if he was facing his own goalie or the other team's goalie ... he was only going forward! So funny!!! They were all very cute and had a blast :) The KC Lion's have had a great year and all the players have improved immensely! Cal was kind of thrown into the head coach role, after volunteering to be an assistant, but I am so proud of the season he had. He spent many hours planning practices and coming up with original and fun drills. The kids smiling faces every Saturday morning and vast improvements in skating, listening and puck handling are proof he and his assistant coaches did a wonderful job! Way to go hun :) :) Now Blake is looking forward to a couple of Edges camps and Initiation 2 next year!!
After hockey, the 2 older kids and myself went out for lunch with my Dad. After lunch we came back to our house and Dad and Cal assembled Em's new bike! Emerson hasn't got the pedalling motion quite yet, but she really enjoyed sitting on her bike and did do some pedalling! She's mastering the skill of steering right now, while being pushed by Grandpa and Dad ;) Blake hopped on his bike like an old pro and seems to have forgotten the trauma of the "incident" of last summer ... it helped that Grandpa bought him a horn and told him he can now honk to let people know he's coming! Blake has obviously grown A LOT since last summer, his bike looks very small!! Reese also enjoyed the great outdoors, running down the sidewalk and exploring and then being carried in Grandpa's and Dad's arms :) Hopefully we will get out on the bikes again tomorrow!It was a great day :) I just love this spring-like weather!!!
Before I signing off, I must mention the Kindergarten/100 Voices open house on Wednesday night at Bishop Savaryn. The early ed consultant from Edmonton Catholic School's came to speak to everyone in attendance about their early ed programs, philosophy, french immersion program, etc. It was great to get more info. on both programs and meet more school staff! Apparently Blake will learn to read and write in French beginning in grade 1 and by the end of grade 3 will be reading and writing fluently in both french and english. I'm very excited to see how Blake learns and how fast he picks up the french language! I have heard that after just a few months in french immersion kindergarten, kids are already speaking quite a bit of french!! I seen the K classroom's when I registered Blake in January, but we visited them again on open house night and met the K teacher's (1 of which is a friend of mine!). I'm really looking forward to being a part of the Bishop Savaryn 'family'! We have heard wonderful reviews about the school and french immersion program and hope we've made the right choice.
And I can not forget to mention Emerson's 1st unparented swimming lesson on Friday!! She had a lot of fun and was very well-behaved. We didn't have to go onto the deck or anything, she went right with the instructor and had a great lesson! We're so proud of her :)
Enjoy the remainder of your weekend!!! Talk to you again soon :)
xo
Tracy
