First Day

Second grader! School started last week. She is enjoying it, and really likes her teacher - the M&M math on the first day won her over. There are only a few other girls in her class, but she has just been playing on the swings every recess so far, and wondering why her old school is deprived of swings.
She tried buying lunch today. "I wanted the chicken, but then when they put it on my plate I wished I got the taco. It looked so disgusting with bones everywhere and a yellow thing probably was the heart. I think they gave me the chicken's stomach."
That's about the most she's reported about her days so far.

Catching up some more . . . Olympic Peninsula

We wanted to make it to Olympic Peninsula before leaving the northwest. We only had a day, so we got up early to get on the ferry.

First stop, tide pools - lots of them!

Next stop, lunch. We decided not to eat here:

Then we left the ocean and went up here:

The deer weren't afraid of us.

Either were the llamas (at an animal park in Port Angeles). But some of us were a little afraid of them - and their friends the yaks.

It made for a great day trip - but we could have stayed for a week if we had time.

Okay, I think I'm caught up - I'll write about the move and our new place next.

Catching Up

We went to 3-2-1-Bounce for Olivia's 7th birthday.

She had fun.


But next year, when it's not right at moving time, she'll have to go back to another homemade party by mom.