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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Back To School

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 :)

Cousin Camp with Nana.  The kids all had the last week of summer off and so Nana had a house-ful of them!

Summer evenings at the yacht club

Cousin Fun

Five stitches to the chin

Chan got all caught up on his shots at his 4 year well child check.  Esme felt so bad for him that she carried him into the craft store afterwards. 


Esme's sparkly choice of school shoes for the year. 

1st day of school

When all his sisters get pigtails, sometimes Chan wants some too.  He's become known as Mr Sproutman at school these days.  

Thank goodness for the playroom.  Now that the twins are mobile they (along with their bigger siblings) tear this place up on the weekends!

Ms Fancy-Pants!

Baby #1 and baby #2.  The necklace on the onesie has their number order.  

Keeping the kids contained.  

Esme and Chan goofing around in the back of the van. 

Soccer season has begun.  They started out in one chair and then see below.  

They ended up in 2 chairs.
 

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