Into the Swing of Things

As of today, all the fall activities have begun except for one. It's mostly doable but it sure is nice when Andy doesn't have to work late. We're having more fun than a barrel of monkeys, including story time at the zoo to market the new PBS show.

In case our house wasn't loud enough, we've added a new instrument. The French horn is not a quiet thing. Thankfully, the teacher taught them how to use their hand as a mute before anything else.

We thought that Ellen was taking a combination class of gardening and art. It turns out that it's really just gardening, offered through the Springfield Art Association. She loves it. Today was the first day that she attended. There were only 2 kids there and she came home with a bag full of organic produce.



We're also doing sports. The girls are swimming and Drew is playing soccer.

Preschool orientation was this afternoon and classes start in earnest next week.

Timothy doesn't do any activities. I'm theoretically looking into a music class and I have good intentions for story time. But it's so tempting to just stay put and sing a few songs and read a good book. We'll see how it turns out.