Katherine has the same teacher, Mrs. Sparling and thus the same classmates as last year with a few exceptions as there was some redistricting that took place this year. Katherine is at her first sleep over at a friends tonight, one of her girlfriends from last year and this, Valeria. The only challenge is that her family is Spanish speaking - her Mom speaks no English and her dad limited so her brother was in charge of interpreting for us. What a nice family and Katherine was very excited about the event.
Katherine is dancing again this year - tap and ballet as well. She is enjoying both thus far and has picked right up where she left off from in tap - ballet seems to be coming to her just fine even though it has been a while since she has taken it. She is also participating in Girl Scouts again this year.
Lillian has Mrs. Siarto and will again next year as they do looping (same teacher 1st and 2nd grade). She has lots of new friends and went to the first of what will likely be many birthday parties today. Also, the very first day of school she came home and announced she had given out her phone number and sure enough a little boy called mere moments after we walked in the door that day - and every day for the week!
Lillian has decided to resume dancing, ballet to be exact. She is thrilled to be back into it again. She is also in Girl Scouts again this year, in Katherine's troop.
As for Mark and I we are keeping pace with the girls, or at least trying to. We keep pretty busy with their schedules and I have returned to school to work on my Masters in Special Ed. so that ties me up a few evenings a week. Thankfully golf is over for now so Mark is home each evening. He tries to sneak to the course )or elsewhere) when he can...Just today he went to the U of M football game with Joe - yes you read right, Mark went to football, he is even planning to go again next weekend...if they can get tickets. I will be at adult Girl Scout camp as I am the girls' leader and very active in scouting and it is the annual scouting retreat if you will that all registered adults can go to so we can learn about fun activities to do with the girls and have fun being girls ourselves.
