Not one, but TWO Students of the Month!

Shorty after I posted last, we found out that Grace was named Proactive Student of the Month for her class as well. They finally posted her photo on the bulletin board. Check it out!

School News

We've got 9 weeks of school in the record books. We've had our first report cards. We've done our first real "project". We are getting in to this whole school routine -- and let me tell you ... it's BUSY. I'm not talking busy every now and again. We are BUSY all the time!

Some days I feel like I've been standing in one place, spinning around and around and around. I'm dizzy with busy! My head spins daily! But, we are having a blast with our girls!

Chris and I make an awesome team with this. We occasionally high five each other while we're racing through the house getting whatever's next ready to go -- be it kid, project, dinner -- we've become some kind of well oiled machine. The down side is, when we finally fall on the couch at about 10 o'clock at night, we just look at each other and say -- "oh yeah, you live here too!". Note to self: find an occasional date night in the midst of all the chaos that is our lives right now.

In spite of busy, the girls are exceptional students! Both report cards prove it. We are so proud of them!

We had our first real classrooom work project to do (see photo). Maggie had to get her family together to decorate a turkey. It had to be a family project. Everyone needed to participate. We all had fun doing it. Maggie wanted to make the belly red felt with Cheerio feathers and wanted green construction paper feathers in the plume. Grace wanted orange construction paper feathers and wanted the bottom feathers to be little pom poms. I wanted fall leaves scattered on the construction paper feathers so that it had some fluff to it. Chris wanted to handle the head and the wings -- and he picked the pink eye -- since it seems to run in the family. Lots. Grace had the idea for the pipe cleaner feet and I made those. Maggie wanted a pipe cleaner beak. I made that as well. The girls glued everything on. And Maggie added a hat with a flower. A true family effort!

Maggie was also featured on the school bulletin board for being her class' Proactive Kid (see photo).

Grace and I are going to be hitting up the craft store soon. Since I was homeroom parent for Maggie's class Harvest Celebration, I'm going to be a guest in Grace's class to do a Thanksgiving craft with all the kids. She is very excited about this -- and so am I. It's such a blessing to be able to do these things with and for my kids.

Halloween 2010

We had a great Halloween with the girls! Grace was Strawberry Shortcake, while Mags called up her inner superhero and was the all hot pink Supergirl!

They had a great time trick-or-treating! For the first year, I had trouble keeping up with them. They RAN from house to house -- not skipping anyone. They scored so much candy that Grace's bucket handle broke! It was so much fun watching them.

Gearing up for Trick or Treat, it was a busy day. The school's Harvest Festival was that day as well -- and I'm a homeroom parent. So, the early part of the day was spent at the school setting up for games and crafts. The whole school had a costume parade through our neighborhood. I made sure I was home for that. But as soon as the girls passed by the house, I ran back to the school to finish up, so the party would be ready to roll once they all got back from the parade.

Our little goblins had a great day, so all the hard work was worth it!

Enjoy these pictures!