One Month Later

So a month after the kids' schools started, we're still settling into school. On Tuesday, Maile's school had a Parent Coffee for parents of kindergarteners and 1st graders. I baked a coffee cake for it with the assistance of Maile and Beck, but I couldn't even stay for it since I had to drop Beck off at school. The next day Maile had her first day of Spanish class. We don't expect her to necessarily speak, but we thought it'd be better than being bored at home when Beck is still in school.

Even though Maile and Beck play really well together, I sometimes feel like I should play with them more. I realized the wardrobe boxes from our move could be used as play houses. So I flipped them over and set them up in Beck's room. The kids had a great time. After a few days, they turned one of them into a slide. Anything can be a toy.

Here's a family photo we took that night.

I discovered only two weeks before that Maile had a four-day weekend -- Friday was a teacher in-service day and Monday was Yom Kippur. That's what I get for not looking at her calendar in advance. So Friday I took Maile to the Palo Alto Jr Museum, which we can walk to, to meet up with Hannah. They had a great time inside the museum and out in the little zoo. They spent a good amount of time playing on and around the frog statues.