Sierra's 1st Day of School!!!!!

How exciting, the night before her 1st day of school. She had a shower! And then got her clothes ready, hung out with E.D.B.D who sensed the excitement I think and talked on the phone to her daddy who was still out building bins!! She also recorded a message for him, which I don't know how to put on here...anyone wanna help with that? It was a fun night, very exciting and heart wrenching in its 'cuteness'. Enjoy!!

The morning of. Little girl, big packpack and an even bigger smile. It was a great day!

On the drive to school we stopped at.....

Tim Horton's, big surprise eh? It was very nice, she had a bagel, I had a croissant and we both drank nice hot drinks. Good way to start a first day of school don't you think. Especially as it proves I was in good time that morning!









And beside us in line you'll Amanda and her littlest! 1st day of Kindergarten for at least one of them. 

Waiting in line outside school, which they do each day, rain, shine, snow until its time to go in!
(they can play on the playground until the bell rings).
Her cubby, she knows her name now very well and is very diligent at getting all her stuff put away properly on her own...one thing they stressed was very helpful if the kids would do it...no parents haning around helping their kids!!

Receiving her name tag from her teacher. Mrs. H. Great teacher and even better assistant!












The first center she chose was computer, which I thought a bit odd as she doesn't ever really play with it at home. Maybe she thought this was her chance to get in their before I took it over! 

A few of the centers she went to on the first day. Art, house, playdough! The girl beside her was very shy. I told Sierra to ask her to play house with her, so Sierra went over and politely asked her if she'd like to go with her to the house center, the girl looked up and said "no" and went back to working with the dough. Sierra just kind of looked at me and gave a little smile, I was about to say don't worry about it but the other girls mom stepped in and helped her daughter to try making a friend, I think it worked, they hung out a fair bit for the rest of the time there. 

Blocks!

Train Table with her first guy friend at kindergarten. She had first stated when I asked if she was going to play with any of the boys, that yes she would play beside them, but not talk to them. Now I think she's come out of her girl only shell and plays well with both genders.








Circle time, playing some singing game (maybe head and shoulders?), her teacher has many of them (songs, not shoulders) and I think it really keeps the kids interested and on track.










Sierra is standing beside the centers chart where she gets to go and put her name in an open space which says where she is going to be playing. I was so amazed that by the second day she could do it by herself, she just noted the picture and hung up her name and headed over to it. So great! 

The playground, Sierra had great fun and took part in each area of this playground, even in a dress! I love that she loves being girly and still can play for hours outside or in the barn, catching rabbits, riding horses, chasing kittens. She's well balanced!


Break down :) I love taking pictures of Ocean crying, she is so good at it! Not in a bad way really, just too sad to be sad, instead its cute. O.k. I'm messed up. But her mom is very patient with her which will serve her well in the future. 

Coming back in from Recess.
You can see that Sierra is not in class with Ocean or Mikayla, but that seems to be working very well, they still see eachother for recess and some classes, but Sierra has made great friends in her own class and I am so proud of her. In fact the girl she is closest with is one I noticed on the first day and liked because of her personality and how she interacted with her parents! Very cool.

Lunch time (even though their 1st day was a half day, the 2nd Wednesday of every month is...I took some time with them to let them have their first school lunch out by the school field.)









Ocean, Mikayla and Sierra at the close of their first day of kindergarten.

Oh E.D. What do you get yourself into?!!?

Well I can tell you what he gets himself into. A mega blocks container. He jammed it on his head and could not get it off. I had to save him :) What a great mom I am. Anyhow, here are a few pics of that, and the last one is of him and his cousin Sean.
 

Emma riding!! All by herself :)

Emma seriously rode all by herself, out in our small field (I wasn't comletely crazy, I kept them semi contained!)
Then she got stuck in the barn...Srgt Pepper's favorite muddy spot.

Afterwards, she got out again!! yeah Emma, well done!
And she was also very willing to take her turn leading others around. Here Sierra and Emma help lead little E.D.B.D. *Ethan* around. What great fun they all had.

Sierra and Emma...Summer time

Sierra and Emma leading Srgt. Pepper. At first Emma didn't want to be left alone with the pony or other animals at all...but she grew nicely into being a horse girl herself!

Sierra and Emma on the swings...remeber them Emma?






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The three muskateers? not quite, but cute nonetheless!











And grooming, an important part of the horse riding process...they would do this for a long time, braiding his hair and keeping him all dolled up. I think Srgt Pepper liked the attention. 

Uncle Jon and Ethan sharing some quality time!

John with his groupies. The baby is not ours, it is John's cousin Jim and wife Amy who brought this little one to our home for a bit, they also have another daughter...have to see if we have any pictures of her, she and Ethan had a bit of a love hate relationship...very cute! 

Happy Hallowe'en

Halloween, not a holiday I get into a great spirit over, I enjoyed our halloween as achild, mom and dad would have candy at the house *even those little trangle ones I despised, still they sit well in my memory* and we would carve the pumpkins and bake the seeds, sometimes our friends Barb and John would pop over and scare me a poor little girl half to death with their extremely old age masks! I enjoyed it and never went out trick or treating till I was in Calgary and 15 years old. That was the first and last, just not all that grabbing to me. However John grew up going out for haloween, which is strange as he grew up in Caronport!! However we decided to stay in this year and have the kids go around to the bedroom doors where we had mom, dad, Jon, myself waiting to hand out some candy, then they went on a candy search for the ones mom, dad and uncle Jon had hidden around the house. After that they carved pumpkins with John. They had a blast and we stayed warm, slowly I'm winning John to my version of halloween. *I think too I'm lazy which makes my way a lot more attractive to me!


This is Ethan's pumpkin, John got one pumpkin for each of us, differnt sizes and then he carved them with different expressions... he did an awesome job and it took a lot of his time!!










The finished products. They looked great in our dark living room all lit up, we've got in on video as the pictures don't do it any justice (that's cause they were taken the next morning!)