First week of school

Jocelyn and McKailyn finished up their first week of school at Reno Christian Academy last week. To no one's surprise both of the girls did great. Of course, they were a little shy & timid the first two days, but by Friday morning they couldn't wait to run away from me and play (we got there early) with the rest of the kids.

On the first day it was memorable how 2 little girls walked up to Jocelyn (they briefly met at orientation the week earlier) and said, "Hi. We are going to be in your class and want to know if you'll be our friend." I think that helped Jocelyn feel much more comfortable. She already told us that she was nervous about being "the new kid." When I dropped the girls off Friday morning, all the kids had their "About Me" posters hanging outside their classroom. Just about all of the other kids listed Jocelyn under their "My Friends" category. Jocelyn is already writing in cursive and I'm pretty sure she's better at it than me. On top of that Jocelyn already got invited to a birthday party that she attended today and had a blast. Outside of school, Jocelyn is playing in an all girl 8 year old recreational soccer league. Again all the other kids were great and welcomed Jocelyn, she's having a blast. She then informed us that she's going to play soccer until she's "really old and needing a cane".

McKailyn is loving Kindergarten. She's been the first one awake every day of school, waking all us up and making sure we are getting her breakfast right away. We think she really enjoys going to school and following the same routine she's watched her big sister follow for the last two years. She also is doing very well in her school work and is excited about learning even more. We're holding her off from any extra curricular activities until she's fully used to all day school 5 days a week, but she has a list of everything she wants to do (gymnastics, horse back riding, karate, guitar lessons, piano lessons, etc....)