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Caroline’s 1st Days at School

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Jen started teaching a couple of days each week tutoring small groups of kids to help prepare them for the statewide assessment tests that happen in a couple of months. To do this we’ve put Caroline in school a couple days a week. She’s actually in the same preschool that both Alex and Andrew attended.

We were a little nervous about how she would be leaving Jen for the first time since the boys had a hard time. I can’t even count the times that Alex was in tears after being dropped off. Well, not Caroline. She had her Elmo backpack, lunch box, sleeping mat, and she was ready to go. The very first day she just walked right up there and that was it.

I dropped her off the other day and as we pulled into the parking lot of school she got all excited and started yelling, “dool, dool”.

Here’s her picture from the first day

Yesterday she also came home with her very first piece of artwork. I guess they were talking about all the snow we’ve had the last couple of days. She was very proud of the white paint she did because she would point to it and say “paint”.

"Snow Day"

North Texas Snow

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Yesterday we got about 4 inches of snow which is really quite a bit for North Texas. (If you were watching T.V. you would have thought we were in for about 20 or 30 inches the way the news channels here cover it.)

After it had finished we bundled up the kids and let them play outside for a bit.

Mother Goose

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I was putting Caroline to bed this evening and was sitting in our big chair reading some stories with her when I picked up Jen’s old copy of “The Real Mother Goose.” It’s old and fragile, pages are starting to fall out of it since the binding glue is drying out, but every now and then I pick it up to read a couple with her.

Tonight I opened up to a page and saw a picture of an old guy jumping in the bush and thought what’s this all about.

THE MAN IN OUR TOWN

There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise,
He jumped into a bramble bush,
And scratched out both his eyes;
But when he saw his eyes were out,
With all his might and main,
He jumped into another bush,
And scratched ’em in again.

Really, scratched his eyes out!?

There you go Caroline, stay out of the bushes or look what can happen, scratch your eyes right out, and don’t listen to any of that nonsense about scratching ’em back in ’cause that’s not going to happen. Sleep tight, don’t have any nightmares tonight.