mason started taking piano lessons in august and it has been awesome!! i think he really surprised his teacher! she is impressed with how well he is doing and how fast he learns. he is already just about to finish up his first level of books and start on the next and he has only been doing lessons once a week for about a month. call me crazy for paying someone to do something that i could do myself but mason and i are too much alike. we butt heads when i try to help him practice let along me trying to teach him. i'm super glad i found something to occupy his time that he loves and is excellent at and he has a really great teacher too :)
mason also started kindergarten the last week of august!!! any of you who know him know that he was beyond ready for this day! he has been doing great and made a lot of new friends. he enjoys riding the bus home with is friends and sophie and brooklyn love meeting him down the street at the bus stop. in the spring the school district rearranged their boundaries so our neighborhood got put into a school just a few blocks away instead of driving several miles like in previous years. i was so happy about that especially after hearing all the good things i do about our new school. so far we really like everything and i cant wait to see how the rest of the year unfolds!
mason's teacher sent us this picture in an email after the first day of school. cutest thing ever!
after school had been in for several weeks they had an open house. this is mason standing next to "himself" at his table. he showed us his journals and we loved them! he is so funny and creative and of course super smart! i have no idea what his pose is about though....
yet another thing we started was soccer. i was really hesitant about this one for several reasons: 1. curtis works every saturday which means i get to drag all 3 kids to 2 soccer games by myself every single week (but he is home in time to help with practices during the week thank goodness!) 2. mason played soccer several years ago....he was the one out there chasing butterflies and cloud watching (not really but you get the idea). we took a year off and he really wanted to try again. he is doing better but still doesn't focus on the ball. he just has fun running around with everyone. he played goalie his first game and did really good, making several good stops. the second game he tried goalie didnt turn out so well. good try buddy. sophie also wanted to play. i have seen her with a ball and she is a lot more coordinated than mason and much more aggressive so i thought she would do awesome! i was wrong. she runs every direction except toward the ball and would much rather play with a dirt pile. she has done some really good plays though and i think she will have it down in a few years.
sophie's team is the tigers
mason's team is the elemenators
mason just lost his 3rd tooth and he has a 4th one loose on the bottom!! i asked him what he would eat without any teeth and he said "ice cream!". :) i swear he looses a tooth and brooklyn gains it!
here are a few pictures from our latest zoo outing. we saw so many animals that we usually dont even see because they hide out. the sky was overcast. the temperature was in the upper 70's. there weren't very many people there. it was the perfect day for the zoo!
i think i covered it all for now! hopefully our lives will slow down a little after soccer season :)
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