The children got home at 3:15pm yesterday...they made me jump by tapping on the window...I didn't expect them until closer to 4pm but the school day ends at 3pm! I don't think they stopped talking from the moment they got home to the moment they went to bed...they were all so excited and full of news......
Susannah LOVES her new school and already has a best friend named Cassie.....in fact she got straight on the phone to this new best friend and chatted away and then Cassie gave her the number of another friend and so the evening was spent with Susie on and off the phone....
In the end I spoke to Cassie's Mom and we arranged a play date for Friday.....she has 5 kids too! And they live just around the corner from us! She has a Son in Chris's class so the deal is she will drop Cassie off here on Friday and pick Chris up and take him back there....then later in the afternoon I will drop C off and pick Chris up!
The Mom sounds really nice too thankfully :)
Susannah then told us that her class is studyinga country beginning with I but she couldn't remember the name of it, so we got the world map down and had a look for it......it wasn't Iraq or Italy or any of the other countries we could find......so she called her friend back and then says 'Its Tunisia!'...............too funny ;) So much for beginning with I!!!
Laurence likes his class but can't remember the names of any of his new friends....his class is going on a field trip soon and he's looking forward to that although he can't remember where they are going!
Chris had a blast and of course LOVED being the centre of attention all day.....today his class is going bowling and then back to school for a movie afternoon and pizza lunch...then tomorrow they are spending the day at Millennium Place...swimming, skating etc etc......he obviously picked a great week to start school! Next week his class is going to the Telus World of Science to study South America and are taking part in a South American martial arts class.....
And they have Thursday and Friday off....
Its nice that they are all happy with the school :) I hope that lasts....I told Chris to give it until June and if he doesn't want to stay he can homeschool next year....
Abigail went back to preschool today after our holiday.....she took some Disney chocolates to share out in class today.....her teacher was asking her all about her trip and then asking if I'd recommend Disney for that age group as she was considering going with her children....
So this morning after waving the children off to the bus, I got Abigail and Sam ready and took Abby to preschool...chatted there for a while then came home and took the garbage to the end of the driveway.....cleaned up after Charlie...made toast for Sam and he is now playing with his cars and Fisher Price garage beside me here.....
It is snowing very gently out...big flakes just falling softly......very pretty...like a snowglobe :)
Sadly though the roads are NASTY....so if you live around here and are out on the roads please take great care!
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