We Survived First Week of School!

This first week of school was much more exhausting, especially more for me, then I expected!

Prior to Wednesday all of us were sleeping until at least 8 - 8:30 am every morning, getting up now at 6:45 am is much difficult then I remembered. Besides the earlier mornings, I find it very interesting how much the household in general has had a little difficulty adjusting to the new schedule.

Anna and Ethan, who have always played together are having a hard time with Megan gone all day. They start asking who soon she'll be home each morning and by lunchtime get very anxious for her to be home.

I am not used to being home all day - we have spent the whole summer at the pool so although there are things I have to take care of around the house, it's been difficult to get back in to the groove.

Other than waking early and being tired now at night, Megan seems to be the one who is least effected...and she's the one who went back to school! She loves her teacher and she has all of her friends in her class this year. Megan was nervous about starting 3rd grade this year, she's never worried in the past about starting a new grade before but I believe she got it in to her head it was going to be much more difficult and very rigid. I'm glad her worries proved to be for nothing. Starting of the school year on such a positive note has been great.

This is the first year that it seems we are all a little effected with school starting up again. I'm sure within the next couple weeks we will be back on track. Just on time when Anna and Ethan get started at their new preschool!

Having Fun Blog Hop ~ #22

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School Starting Again

Usually at this time of year I am very anxious for school to start up again since the kids are normally bored and ready to get going with the routine.

Not this year, I think this is the best Summer we've had since Anna and Ethan were born. Up until now it's been very difficult to do things with them on my own when my husband is working. He does tend to work a lot so basically we were stuck at home a lot.

Our major mode of entertainment during the Summer is to go the pool. Last year Anna and Ethan clung on to me for dear life and made it virtually impossible for me to be at the pool with the 3 of them by myself. Since a lot of the kids in our area have various activities and are vacationing off and on it made for a very bored and grumpy Megan.

This year Megan joined the swim team at our pool. Not only did it allow Megan to become a much more proficient and confident swimmer, we were able to meet a lot of swim team/pool members for the kids to play with and for us adults to have some adult time with. Not only that, but with Anna and Ethan being at the pool every day it really allowed them to get much more comfortable with the water.

Ethan now floats around with his floatie on his tummy will blowing bubbles in the water. He looks like a human float! Anna has turned out to be quite the little swimmer at 3. She now performs the breast stroke and butterfly for us! She actually does the arm movements but not the feet. She goes completely under water and can swim about 4 - 5 feet. Wow, what a difference a year makes.

Megan has turned into an incredible swimmer and is now able to go in the deep pool to swim with all of her new pool friends.

We have been going to the pool everyday - actually twice a day for the past week. We now go up for a few hours in the early afternoon to enjoy the warmth of the day and then back in the evening to cook out with the other families. Most of the time it is too cool for little one's to really enjoy the pool, but they have their friends there then to play with!

None of us are ready for this to be over... I am really so grateful that Megan got involved with the swim team this year, it really improved our quality of life in so many ways. :-)

Having Fun Blog Hop ~ #21

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