Backlund Brief: September 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Kindergarten

Alia LOVES kindergarten! Aside from being a bit of a chatty cathy (who would have known?) she's doing really well! Her reading and writing is progressing great!

Alia has had homework for 2 weeks now. All she talks about is wanting to do her homework!! Here she is writing her letters and numbers.

This was how Alia wrote her letters right after school started.

And this is her alphabet this past week. Even though she's been able to write her letters for a long time now, I was amazed to see how much better the letters are-after a month of kindergarten! She's still struggling with a few numbers-but she's doing great!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Today!

This morning we decided to take a drive to Three Rivers and spend the morning. We've never been up there so we didn't know what ot expect.

We went to a retreat/conference center and walked around a bit. We walked around a portion of the grounds that had the stations of the cross. So the kids asked some questions and got we explained it as best we could to a 5 and 3 year old. :) at one point we turned a corner and Jason said, "OH my gosh...you've got to be kidding". I was a few feet behind him and was expecting to see a big hole in the sidewalk or something. We I turned the corner a huge buck was walking across the walkway-about 20 feet from us. The kids loved to see it...and then it ran away. I snapped a picture as it ran into the grass.

Then we started to take some family pictures.

Boy, it's hard to get all 5 of us looking at the camera!

And one of just mommy and daddy. :)

Of course a trip to Three Rivers isn't complete until you stop at the candy shop. We ate lunch at We Three restaurant and then stopped to get ice cream. YUMMY!

We promised the kids we'd play in the river...so we had to make a stop. It was pretty hot so we didn't last long. But it was long enough. I think this place was called Slick Rock. We came home with a bag of rocks-grammpa jim, you'd be proud!