The Growing Walnuts: August 2017

We've successfully transitioned back to school for the entire family! Esme started 1st grade this year and she's so happy to be back into the school routine. Summer was fun but she was a tad bit under-stimulated. Our big accomplishment for the summer though was learning to ride her bike without training wheels! This is huge for Esme since she's a very cautious kid and she was asking us to teach her. She was so ready and it was great! Now we can finally upgrade her bike to a big kid one :) Oh and the other summer milestone was getting stitches. Esme fell on the playground at Summer Fun and had to get 5 stitches to her chin :( She was actually a trooper though and toughed it out like a champ thankfully!

Chan started his last year at Keikiland in Mrs Sky's class. He enjoyed the summer program at Keikiland but he also loves his routine and learning so he was glad for the school year to start again. Over the summer we enrolled him in Kumon for reading cause he was begging to learn. I think watching Esme was a huge motivator. Anyways, it's amazing how much progress he's shown lately and now he's reading beginner books to us at night. We recently added on the math lessons too since he's been showing a growing interest in numbers too. He also stopped going to gymnastics and started soccer. We've been waiting for this day for the past year cause he's got so much energy! We got off to a slow start though since he was recovering from a stomach bug during his first game. He puked up his spam musubi right before it started. Ugh! But anyways, he's happy to have his own activities and even happier that daddy's the coach.

As for Poppy and Eve they're growing and moving right along. We've already lectured them that they're going to have to do the same activities when they grow up cause mommy and daddy can't take much more variation from the routine. Ha ha! The girls follow each other around the room and keep each other busy daily. Their cribs are right next to each other and they play games in the morning and say hi to each other over the railings. It's super cute. This twin adventure is getting more and more fun all the time :)