This pic is from after a full day at school and a yoga session while there but her hair still held up great! She had a super duper looper day at school and Ashley had a handful of hilarious Pookie stories for us at pick up time.

One of the stories she told us was when two boys were bickering over something and Pook marched on over and declared the following to them:

“Look guys, I walked to the other side of the room, got your backpack and your pencils for you, and what are you two arguing about? Also, what do you say to me (waiting for her thank you). Stop this arguing or I’m going to talk about it”. Ashley said everyone was cracking up and they were trying to teach her the diva snap to go with the attitude. She also said the boys hushed and told her thank you. Bahahaha…typical pooks.

This was her third consecutive day at school this week. Today (thursday) she isn’t going to class but she has art class later in the day. She goes again on friday which will make this the most school days she has had in a week so far (4 days) and she is loving it!

The other day at school the spanish teacher who comes regularly brought her little boys with her and Ashley said she was cracking up because when they left Sophie yelled to the little boy in a funny voice “Bye handsome!”.

Two nights ago after class Ashley sent me this message via facebook which clearly melts a momma’s heart and makes me so very proud!

“You have the sweetest kids I have ever met Michelle. Well done! Xxxx”

Ashley sent me these pics from school the other day. The kids were watching and learning how to cook authentic Costa Rican food from a Tica. The lesson was all in spanish which is awesome! Sophie didn’t like the food at all (it was corn cakes and some rice milk thing. She was hoping for Gallo Pinto). Another girl in class named Aria was braiding her hair while they were watching the lesson. So sweet.

This is another photo she posted that Sophie is not in but is awesome. She wrote “Kids teaching Kids”. In this pic you can see the older kids sitting and helping the younger ones with some work. Such an amazing concept. Ugh, if i dont stop writing now i’ll start endlessly gushing about Ashley and her school so here is the pic.

Holla…we made homemade Challah! Yup, Pooks and momma got to bread making this morning and although we may need to perfect the looks of our bread, the taste was on point! Pooks made a slug and a smiley face roll. I tried to make a loaf that looks like a bunch of grapes, and then attempted to make some braided rolls.

My grapes and pookie’s slug

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).