Well crap I missed August.
Somehow the month escaped me and now it’s cooling down, sun’s setting earlier, we took the pool down, and the kids start school tomorrow. Summer is done folks.
Our last stint before school involved a few kids birthday parties, dinner with friends, late night movies, and, of course, fishing with grandparents. The kids were bummed that they didn’t catch anything, but of course had fun swimming. Those expensive swim lessons have finally paid off as Ajax can now actually swim and Noomi is pretty close to it.
We also had a solar eclipse across the United States and in Michigan we saw about 80% of it which was still very cool. I took the kids to a solar eclipse party at the Howell Library and we made T-shirts and ate cookies and filled a bag with books. We also stared at the sun a lot.
We took the kids to the schools’ open house and met their teachers. Noomi has Mrs. Lewis, just like Ajax, and Ajax has Mrs. Foley. This year, the third grade moves Ajax into a new school – Explorer! He has a locker and his own desk. Noomi’s incoming kindergarten class is the largest the school has seen in years, hitting about the 200 mark. They had to shuffle teachers around and add classes to accommodate them all! Ajax’s class is about 1/2 that.
Ajax is also starting soccer next week, practice being two days a week, games on Saturday. Noomi decided she wanted to join Girl Scouts, so I thought it would be fun to help out and co-lead, which I think will be great, but I was quite surprised at how much work it was!
With tomorrow being the first day of school we had a pretty quiet day today. We painted rocks and then hide them around town. The kids played at McCormick Park with friends and then we hit up the grocery store on our way home. Lunches are packed, clothes are laid out, and everyone was in bed at a reasonable time! Noomi is beyond excited to start school, she was so excited that she already completed her first homework assignment (due at the end of Sept). Ajax was less excited, but he’s definitely ready for more routine and he’s excited about being in the third grade.
(Noomi and I also met friends at the MSU Children’s Garden. Ajax wanted to go to summer camp instead)
