September 2009

Annika started Kindergarten this school year. She is LOVING school! We are on a track system here and Nathaniel and Liesel are on a different track than Annika so sometimes she is off and they are on and vice versa. When she is off and they are in session, she misses school so much that she wants to pretend she is going to school. She packs a lunch, gets all ready and does some school projects at home. She has a great Kindergarten teacher that does cute projects with the kids and teaches them lots of songs with actions which Annika adores! She is such a song and dance girl! Since the time she was tiny she has loved music and dancing. She has quite the rhythm too! I don't know where she gets it! She is starting to read and we are just so thrilled that she enjoys school so much and has such a desire to learn! (Hooray for great teachers who inspire and don't squelch kids enthusiasm for life and learning!)


The girls were doing all kinds of silly poses on the first-day-of-school-pictures. Actually Annika was trying to look cute and Elora was trying to be as silly as possible!

Nathaniel and Liesel are both on the Honor Roll as they are every year! I am so proud of them for working hard on their school work. Nathaniel has always loved reading and Liesel has become quite the little bookworm too lately! She loves mysteries and anything about princesses or fairies. She told me recently that sometimes when she reads a book she can think of all kinds of things the author could have added to make it more interesting!

Ben, T. Jay, and Jerry went to Denver in September for a Broncos game. I think it was a great chance for them to have some brother-father-son bonding time! ( I wish I had a picture of the three of them together!)