August 24, 2010

Back to School ¹

by Wendy • 2010: Memory Making, featured, Headline

I didn’t realize that 3 year olds can be totally into a fad but it looks like we have one on our hands.  Catherine is just completely obsessed with the Silly Bands craze.  As you can see on her arm she has about 30 of them.  They remind me of some punk rock phase from the 80′s.  She won’t keep any other type of jewelry on her body but these little rubber, animal (or anything) shaped bands she can’t get enough of.  The first set she got she accidentally misplaced (she’s still into stashing things into boxes and bags) about three days ago and she was devastated.  I told her we would buy her another set as soon as she got all five hearts on her chart for sleeping through the night.  Well, she did manage to find them before we had to buy her a new set but she didn’t let her daddy forget that he still JUST HAD TO BUY her more of them as soon as she got that last heart.  She knows how many she has and if one is missing, all hell breaks loose.

Even though Catherine has gone to summer school, we were all still a bit anxious about starting pre-k 3 today.  I was ready for her to get back into her school routine but I was a little worried how she might do with her new teacher and the new classroom.  Well, no worries needed here because she marched right in and was ready to go!  I’m almost looking forward to kindergarten because I think she really thrives in the classroom setting.  I can’t wait to see how much she will grow and change this year as she moves full steam ahead to being a 4 year old.  The kids in the pre-k 4 class just seem so big!

Here are a couple of pics from today:

And one last silly picture to leave you with a smile