Irene, Woolwine, and School

Time to play catchup from a multi-week blogging absense.....this post will be a LONG one!

The last weekend in August, Richmond got hit hard by hurricane Irene. We were out of power for 6 days. Fortunately, there was no damage to our house just some to our neighborhood. We spent 3 days at home, 1/2 day with Rob and Katherine, and 2 days with Popa and Abu. There is only so much camping out at home.....with no A/C that one family can take. The video below is from our time at Rob & Kat's house.....the girls play so well together. I think its so sweet how Claire "mothers" Katie. :-)

Then, I left Thursday afternoon around 5 PM for Woolwine. Katie and I spent the Labor Day weekend visiting Nana, Papa, and Gigi. Katie had so much fun in Woolwine. She helped Papa dig potatoes and wash them. She played with Maddie the neighbor's dog....and generally spent as much time outdoors as possible.

In other updates - Katie has moved up to the next classroom at school. She is the youngest child in the class right now (ages are between 2 and 3). I think she likes her new class, but she definitely misses her old teacher Ms. Liz. I got my first indoctrination into "school projects" in early September. Katie's class is doing an "All about me" theme for the month. Each child is supposed to do a poster showing pictures of their family members, their favorite foods (pizza, spaghetti, and goldfish), drinks (milk and apple juice), books (Maisy Books), and activities (playing outside & coloring). Nana came up with the idea of doing a Family Tree....and letting Katie finger paint the green leaves portion of the tree. Katie loved it and, of course, got green paint on virtually EVERYTHING. Finished product is below.