My baby is off to kindergarten

Kindergarten! Wow! What a big girl Miss C was on her first day of school! Not a single tear was shed ( by either of us!) After spending the summer debating & weighing the choices I decided to send Miss C is private Kinder. We had such a wonderful experience at Lupine Lane for preschool that when the director decided to offer Kinder I had to put our public school plans on hold & really think about what was the best option. 

I could get on my teacher soap box and go on for days about the pros & cons of public verses private school but ill save that for another post! In the end how could we turn down putting Miss C is a class of 6 kids verses 26 kids. All of the kids were in class together last year & the teacher is great. Spanish & Mandarin are standards in the curriculum. The curriculum it's self is child driven (think Montessori ) which Miss C excels in this type of environment. So it was kinda a no brainer to send her there.  Guess the only tear shed was writing the tuition check!!! 

Weekend at the beach

We took a quick little trip to the Texas coast this weekend. It's not easy to travel with a baby, much less 2! But I'm not one to sit at home because I have kids. I believe in at least trying & making the best of the adventure!
Miss C has been begging to go to the beach for over a year so we said hey let's go!
Notice the little Owl in the pics? That's Ollie from school! It's was his weekend to come home with our family! We have to journal his adventures, take pictures and add them to his scrapbook

Teeth!

Sitting down to write this baby's first tooth post I realized how fast the time is passing no matter how much I stop and smell the roses. Baby Rush has not 1 but 2 teeth! The first tooth broke the skin last week and the 2nd is right behind it this week! Two teeth and he is not even 6 months old yet! Maybe this explains his waking in the night several times. He is the best snuggler! This sweet little boy is making me break the no kids in my bed rule! Oh little boys! I had no idea how sweet they were.

Oh the activities!

Living Urban (as I'm calling it because it makes me feel cool) has made me realize we need a lot of activities for Campbell to do. I don't want us to suffer from closet fever and well I want her to have the opportunity to figure out what it is she likes and wants to pursue. Miss C is taking dance lessons, swim lessons and gymnastics. My ical is this crazy mom matrix keeping track of the where & when and what bag to pack! Here are some pictures from the first days.

First day at Crenshaw's Gymnastics 

First Day at Alisa's Dance Academy

First day of School Fall 2011

So I a week late blogging this because as any mom can tell you the week of school starting back is just madness. And when you live in Austin it happen to also coincide with the start of UT Football which around here is my husbands version of Christmas day for 11 saturdays but more about that later, let's get back to this cuteness! 

Since we moved we had to find a new school, we miss School in the Hills but the new school is growing on her. She is attending St. Davids Day School. The first day was a little ruff. She had no interest in waking up or getting dressed. The only thing that got her moving was that she got to pack her new lunch box and backpack. Once we arrived at school she was as charming as ever. She did not shed a tear just put her things away, told me she loved me and that she would see me later. 

Sniff, Sniff once again it was me who had the much tufter time.

1st day outfit. It's hard to see but her shirt has a sequin guitar on it

Putting away her snack

Miss C's Classroom

And after school she got a great surprise for being brave on her first day from Ganny!