First Day of Montessori

Yesterday was Emil & Oliver’s first day of Montessori! Milo has been going all week and loving it, but it was really something special to see all of them marching up to their classrooms (the school is on large wooded grounds and has many house-like buildings; each building is a classroom) hand-in-hand, giving kisses and hugs good-bye, and disappearing into these magical places…

Also, they look sad above because I asked them to stop exploring the fallen tree in our side yard to sit for a picture. A quick storm had blown through on Wednesday evening, leaving this destruction: 

The tree is actually in our neighbor’s yard, but happened to fall into ours, and because so many trees and huge limbs fell in our neighborhood that evening, workers are pretty backlogged trying to clear it all away… so I think the boys will be happy to see that the fallen tree remains when they get home from school again today. 

Yesterday was also Andrew’s birthday, but I’m afraid this whole school thing overshadowed his special day. That and the fact that we had our first Trapeze II class last night, so it was a rush to get dinner for the boys and get out the door for the class. Poor Andrew! I promise to make it up to you, darlin’! All three boys are adjusting really well to school, and Andrew and I feel such a peace with our decision to send them here. Oliver and Emil just talk and talk and talk about everything the whole way home from school while Milo immediately picks up his Magic Tree House book and starts right where he left off that morning. He is quite a bookworm these days; it is the first thing he does when he wakes up in the morning and the last thing he does before falling asleep at night: read, read, read!

Thank you for all of your kind and encouraging comments, as well as the challenging ones. I appreciate and read them all! Have a beautiful Labor Day weekend!