Yesterday was Nora’s fourth birthday. She had a thoroughly wonderful day with a day at school, lunch with Dad at work and then some presents and cake in the evening. She is four!
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Our 3-year-old had her first day of school today! She has been counting the weeks and days for months now, and the big day finally arrived!
Ready to go with her big brother!
Backpack and lunch in hand
Sean went in to work a little late so the whole family could come drop Nora off (and so we could go out to breakfast afterwards. Mmmm…).
Getting ready to draw!
After I picked her up, I took a few other ‘first day of school’ photos, since the morning ones were kind of fuzzy.
She said, “I will do a face of how excited I am about school.” OK then.
She wanted to get right to work on her special ‘All About Me’ poster. Lots of good coloring. :)
She was full of stories about all the fun things she did. The sandbox was her favorite thing of the day, and she said, “Now that I went to school for one day, I just want to go to school even more!!”
Many baseball games in October. Our weather stayed nice through much of the fall, so the kids got to practice lots of hitting. Nora’s really getting the hang of it and has a pretty ferocious swing.
Step and… SWING!!
Playing with a jump rope
Tic tac toe with friends
Nora chalks up her nose instead.
Hm. That jacket allllmost fits, Jonah.
Silly sticker hand
Big web climber!
Swinging at the park
Biking with a buddy
We had an oatmeal and bagel breakfast at Nora’s most favorite frozen yogurt shop, and I let her sneak a tiny sample. For breakfast! She thought this was crazy and hilarious! :)
Super silverware helper
Working on a cardboard rocketship project
Navigating with library books
New snowman jammies!
Must be October. The kids are happily doing art projects while the parents watch debates.
Fake sleepers
And super exciting! Nora learned to write her name all by herself!
Then she wanted to try everyone’s names.
So so proud of herself!!!
It’s been a while… Let’s see what I remember about this camping trip – our first one as a whole family! We drove east, out past Bend to a state park where we’d test out our new tent and see what Nora thought of camping. On the way, we stopped at Dee Wright Observatory where you could look out over enormous lava fields. The weather was great, and the skies were clear, so we saw some amazing mountains as well.
Also on the way to the campground, we stopped at another volcanic site where we could drive to the top of a lava butte. This gave a good view of the area, too.
At the campsite, we got the tent set up, and the kids were so excited that they were asking to go to bed constantly from about 5:30 on. (How funny that they didn’t actually fall asleep until after 10…)
So much excitement!
Then after a lovely campstove pasta dinner, we made a fire and had some smores! It was their first taste of this camping treat.
Successful trip! Definitely more camping in our family future!
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