It is crazy how much Pookie is loving school and also nuts how this week all of a sudden she is memorizing sight words and figuring out how to sound out words all at once. It is all coming together for her and it is so cool to watch.

She went running up the hill again and couldn’t get to class fast enough. The kids call themselves “The crew” and Sophie told me the other day “Hey Momma you know im part of the crew too”. Bless her heart…she sure is part of the crew. Ashley said that she made several of their grateful lists on friday and the kids just adore her. Even the little girl who was jealous came around and when Pooks walked in the door on friday she yelled “Hi Sophie”. Ashley said she totally changed her tune and was even helping Sophie do some math work. All good things :).

Pooks went to class both Wednesday and Friday this past week (we were in San Jose til Tuesday). This week I think she is going Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. I have a feeling this is going to become a regular thing rather quickly. Today she is going to see Ashley for private tutoring at 4pm, and she woke up at 7:30am, brushed her hair and got dressed to go. I guess she was fairly excited- haha!

Here are some pics from Pooks running up to class, and from funny little Sabs chillin solo with Momma and Dada while peanut is at school.

Going to pick up sissy at end of day! Sabsy was so excited she ran right in and gave her a big hug! Then when it was time to leave she scurried into the school like a little animal and didn’t want to leave Ashley’s side. She finally was ok when she realized that Sophie was coming with us and not staying.

Another thursday at art class! Our house is being overrun by massive amounts of art work (btwn school, art class, and home projects) and I love it! I must figure out a better way to display it all b/c the fridge and windows aren’t cutting it anymore. It is incredible how much spanish Sophie is picking up at this one class. So cool! Her teacher came out of the class with her this week just gushing about how great she is. So thankful for these amazing teachers she is surrounded by and of course amazing pooks!

The other day i saw this at the supermarket for $14.00 and thought it would be a fun surprise for the girls. They absolutely love it!! We have definitely gotten our money’s worth on this one. Sabi is like a little robot walking around the house saying “wanna play pool. sissy play pool”. When Dada was blowing it up he poked a little hole in the top ring so it is a bit deflated. We bought some crazy glue or Goma Loca as it is called here and he patched it up this morning. I’m guessing we’re going to have a few more baby pool purchases in our future.

Of course Sabi brought her bowl into the pool to sit in, and sissy put it on her back pretending she was a turtle. Whack-a-doos.

Then naturally she has to make the baby pool more dangerous than it needs to be.

When we got home from NY we planted Sophie’s fairy garden. She has been obsessed with checking on it every morning. Dada also put a bean in water to show Sophie how it will sprout. His is pretty impressive (i dont think i took a pic of what it looked like at first but it was a bean).

Dada has a surfboard for 6 weeks that he rented from a guy who will be out of town. Here he is coming home one early morning from practicing 🙂