Well Miss E is safely back at school today - looking glum because it's a different classroom, new teacher, and her (overly dependent) bestie has been split off to a different class on the teacher's recommendation. Such a wrench. There were a few kids this morning looking miserable. I hope they have a bit of fun today and she comes home a bit happier!
W doesn't start school again until next week. Should be a good year - there are 4 new entrants starting so W is going to be one of the senior kids lol. I know all the families of the new kids and they are all nice - including A's best friend from across the road that W has always been a bit sweet on. They may be trouble together, I pity the teacher lmao. However, it gives me car pooling option which is great. We also have the fantastic teacher back as she went on a science fellowship for the last half of last year. She is very science/ecology focused and W is going to really love that.
School starts back here on Thursday for Miss K, but DH is back today. She is going to the movies (Frozen) with Granny today, then visiting friends tomorrow. Nice way to finish off the holidays.
All good here. Had a colonoscopy (due to family history) on Friday during which I vomited. Have now lost voice and have chesty kind of cough. Feeling heaps better than I was on the weekend, but luckily haven't had too many phone calls at work today!
Miss K can kind of do laces. Her school shoes are the velcro mary janes and sneakers have elastic laces and velcro up the top. She can sort of tell the time - they worked on half past and o'clock at school last year, but she knows that all the numbers on the clock really represent 5 minutes so she can do some early time telling (ie 10 past). Currently she is obsessed with bike riding and has been dragging us off for big hour long rides each day (have to take it in turns because our old bottoms aren't coping!!)
Arte, LMAO @ W being a "senior" student. It was kind of weird walking past the reception classroom today, there were a few kids there (ie the repeaters) but the newies won't start until tomorrow (ie Carparking Hell, Round#2) - but it will be amazing to see how big our kids look next to the littlies.
That's fantastic that the awesome teacher is back. I haven't formed any judgement on E's new teacher yet. The OTHER teacher (ie, the one who has E's little separated friend) is FANTASTIC so I'm having a tiny bit of anticipatory teacher envy... without even knowing what this one is like LOL.
YAY also for carpooling! I don't think any of that will be happening here, but DD1 is (finally) keen to start getting her own self to school so that might take a bit of pressure off our mornings (and thousands of km/year off our mileage)! We'll see how long that lasts...
Didn't see you there Cally! That does sound like a nice way to finish off the holidays. Bummer about the colonoscopy AND the vomming. Chesty cough sounds a bit of a worry - do you think you might have aspirated? Maybe try some honey in some warm water, small sips - might help soothe the irritation. xxx
And WTG Miss K with the laces!! Do you think it helps having a trained teacher in da house? I sometimes have those moments when E wants to know something and I'm just not sure how to break it down into something short and sticky. (Notice a trend here re lack of brevity??? LMAO)
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Well, end of (a very HOT) first week of school and it looks like miss e is settling in to her new class ok. She was a little unsettled during the week and even wet the bed the other night after a very long dry run. I think I underestimated how big a transition it would be for her. Wondering now if we should have done more preparatory chat in the lead up, or whether that would have prolonged the changexiety.
How are the rest of our kidlets finding the transition?
Very hot weekend coming here. Not much for it but to find aircon!
Miss L had her first day back yesterday I was surprised at how GINORMOUS she looked in comparison to the prep kids...the children grow! they really do! hahahahaha.
I will have to buy her some new sneakers or something as ATM she only has some velcro mary jane things. cute as, but i dont think they will last very long. That said, i will have to get her to learn to tie laces (Cally, you wanna come down and do that for me ... not sure my patience will cope) as they take their shoes off when in class.
Cally: omg! i cannot believe that you vomited! you poor thing! i can only imagine that it was pretty horrendous to go through did you get the cough afterwards? strange! have you spoken to your specialist about it? I guess it will go away soon??
MD: apparently we have the 'cool' teacher. but that coolness is because he makes igloos out of milk bottles. so not sure how far that will stretch across the year LMAO.
Arte: that will be cool that W has someone he really (really!) likes with him at school. i do have moments of guilt at having forced miss L to start all over again in the friend department.
AFM: we are all good. Baking hot here (as MD is probably also experiencing!). we have been hit with hot sun and even hotter blustery winds now for weeks and absolutely NO rain. everything is just scorched. i have had to go around watering trees by hand as they are being hit really hard and loosing their leaves etc.
Miss M starts her 3 year old Kinder on tuesday!! she is sooo cute in her new little kindy top
In some sadder news our neighbour here passed away this morning. he was up on the roof doing some odd jobs and had a heartattack first we knew of it was that there were firetrucks everywhere. really sad as he was the primary carer for his wife who had recently suffered a stroke. just so sad. so we have had some big conversations with Miss L today about it all as she was there having a look at the firetrucks.
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I was surprised at how GINORMOUS she looked in comparison to the prep kids...the children grow! they really do! hahahahaha.
... not sure my patience will cope) as they take their shoes off when in class.
did you get the cough afterwards? strange! have you spoken to your specialist about it? I guess it will go away soon??
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