First day of preschool

I'm a little late getting this posted, only about a month. Isaac started preschool this year. Well it's a 2.5 hour program twice a week. It's in the same building he had sibling care last year when the girls and I went to ECFE so he is familiar with the building and used to being in a class without me. He loves it. I felt a little insensitive because it didn't seem like that big of a deal to me... maybe when he starts kindergarten I will be a little more emotional. This is year one of two for preschool. And frankly it's GREAT! Having that short break from him makes me a better mom and makes our time together that much better.

I got my  camera out to take a couple pictures of him before we left the house. He wanted me to take a photo of him putting his shoes on :-P
 

He was standing by the door ready while the girls still finished breakfast. He was a little excited.

Parking was (and is everyday) nuts due to everyone dropping off. We happen to park by our good friends and it was nice to get a picture of the boys together before we walked in.

We walked in and everyone of course was getting pictures of their kids. It was cute.

Had to get a picture of the whole gang. This is what my Tuesday and Thursdays look like, twice a day two times a week. I count it as my workout hauling 40+ pounds up a flight of stairs.

His locker:

The kids got to jump right into playing when we dropped them off

A friend of mine handed down some girly backpacks and the girls enjoyed getting to wear their own around the house. Such cuties.

This was the next day, just playing around. They kept coming up super close to me so these were the only non-blurry photos from that day. 

Sunday Afternoon Arboretum Picnic

We drove out to the arboretum yesterday to have a picnic and see all the scarecrows. It was a quick visit but felt good to be outside.

We drove the 3 mile drive first to check out the fall colors. Turns out they aren't really there yet. A few trees had changed but not enough to really stand out. Then we stopped and had a picnic before checking out the scarecrows. Isaac was too excited to see the scarecrows so he didn't eat his lunch... which in turn made him difficult to deal with.

My main goal was to get a good photo of the kids. They made this extremely difficult! They would not sit or stand by each other near the pumpkins...






I was able to get some cute photos of them individual (well not Isaac)




Then they were running around the corn patch... so I gave up with the group photo and attempted to just get them being crazy.








Mary's dimple stands out here:


After we corralled them out of the corn stalks we made our way over to the little building made of pumpkins


They had more destructive fun as they all attempted to scatter the squashes everywhere








Here were some of the scarecrows on display:








Then Mary discovered some signs in the open field and had to attempt to tear them apart




Kyle tried to distract them with grasshoppers:


Emma got to hold one, then we had to take it away from her as she tried to rip it's legs off


Isaac was pretty happy to be holding one as well.




They played in the tall grass:






We did finally manage to get them all to SIT by each other and I did get some pretty cute ones of them












Kyle and I had enough chasing for one afternoon so we loaded them up and headed home. It was a gorgeous day, a little chill in the air but it was perfect for fall. The sky was amazing.