My First Preschool

Today Blake had his first "My First Preschool" class! He had a lot of fun! There are 11 children in the his class, ranging in age from 2 to 3. They started out the class with all the kids sitting on the carpet and doing attendance. When your name was called the teacher asked you to say, "Good Morning." They followed that by reading a book and then doing a craft. Today Blake made a flower on construction paper, with tissue paper and green finger paint. The leaves were his hand prints and there was a hole cut out of the centre for a picture! After the craft there was some free-play time and then it was clean up time and singing a few more songs. Blake really enjoyed the class! I'm pretty sure he'd be okay with me not there, but I think I'll stay at least once more before leaving. It's up to you whether or not you stay the whole time or leave. I was hoping to register him in a summer session, but they take a break over the summer for the day camps and start up again in September. So we'll do it again in September! Tomorrow evening Blake and Cal start their next round of swimming lessons. Em and I are going for the first one!

This morning before preschool we popped into my office for a visit. It was great to see everyone and hear all the gossip! LOL! Apparently I'm greatly missed, which always makes ya feel good :) I do miss it, but love my time with the kids. It's that age old battle a woman fights - home vs. career!

Emerson is "talking" so much these past few days! I LOVE it!! We're carrying on little conversations all the time. The coo's are just too cute! And she is so smiley! It's hilarious! Sometimes I can't even look at her when I'm feeding her because she just keeps grinning and grinning and not swallowing!!

Thank goodness our weather is looking up again! We're going to the zoo on Monday, so hopefully the forecast of +20 will hold true!

Enjoy the remainder of the week (yay it's "hump" day!)!!

Tracy

Almost 2!?

I can't believe my baby boy is almost 2!! It is almost scary how fast time flies ...

We had a busy week this week. On Tuesday Cal's youngest sister Kathy and her daughter Katie were flown to the Stollery Children's Hospital. On Wednesday morning Cal's Mom and Grandma drove down. The kids and I went to visit them at the hospital on Thursday morning and Emerson met her Grandma Bev and Great Grandma Alstad for the first time! They kept the kids busy, while I went up to visit Katie and Kathy. Thankfully, it did not take long once Katie was in the care of the Stollery to find out what was causing her "episodes." She was diagnosed with a mild form of epilepsy and released from the hospital, with medication, on Saturday afternoon. We are very glad little Katie will be okay :)

On Thursday evening we met Cal's cousin Amanda and Gerry, Lesley and Colby for dinner. Amanda is in Edmonton attending the U of A. We had been meaning to get together for months and thought we'd better do it before her first year of University is over! Next year we will try to visit a bit more!

On Saturday we had our first 2nd birthday party with our New Mom's Group. It was a fun time! As the kids get older they have more and more fun together. Although at this age sharing can be a bit of an issue! We also attended a 3rd birthday party on Saturday afternoon/evening. Saturday was a partying kinda day :) Blake had a blast and I'm sure Emerson enjoyed herself too!

This morning my sister stopped by for a visit and other than that we had a quiet day. It's nice to have those once in awhile!

Hope your weekend was grand ;) Talk to ya next week!

Luv Tracy