September

September has come and gone. We’ve been really busy with all of our activities. Marco started soccer. His team isn’t as good as last year’s, but they’ve won 1 game. He’s kind of a one-man show. Poor kid. But, he does get $1 from Grandma and Grandpa every time he scores a goal.

Abuela got the girls new dresses in El Salvador. (Lucia was embarrassed to have her picture taken).

Julio got to go to Crescent City for work. It’s so beautiful!

Tessa is our little poser. We are working on potty-training. She’s getting there! She’s talking away now. You can have a pretty good conversation with her.

Lucia started playing the clarinet in the school band. She also attends Activity Days in our ward and Grandma’s ward (since Grandma is the leader). I was able to go into Lucia’s class to be an art docent. Her class was so well behaved and participated and did a great job! It was fun.

“Look how tall I am!”

Sylvie is doing great in Kindergarten. I’ve been in to help out in her class a few times. They are a very well behaved and sweet bunch of kids. She’s so lucky she’s in a good class. She is learning her sight words and knows about 20 of them now. She’s smarter than we give her credit! She also gets speech therapy and resource at school (for handwriting).  We’re still doing OT once a week. The therapist is working hard on her fine motor skills. She still gets into lots of mischief. She got into the food coloring one Sunday before church and got it all over herself and the kitchen. That is just typical Sylvie.

I started subbing last month. I’ve subbed a total of 11 days so far. Some days are good and some are not. I subbed for a high school P.E. class one day and two boys started fist fighting during class. The vice principal and campus monitor had to come help me out. I won’t be going back to that school. Uncle B has been holding down the fort while I’m at work. He does a good job taking care of the girls.

Well, it’s now October, my favorite time of year! Let the holiday season begin!