Storybook Fun

I think we're over the strep throats but have moved on to some sort of secondary infection — a deep cough for the kids and a nasally drippage or something that's causing a bit of a sore throat for me. We're trying to keep the rest factor up and the activity level down, but it's tough for the kids.

Anyway, here are a number of photos from several weeks back when I took the kids to one of our local parks. It's filled with popular storybook characters and is just wonderful for young children.

The weather here of late has started to feel a bit like fall football season already, though I will say it got really hot last week during the daytime hours.

Indeed, school is just around the corner. The Montessori teachers invited kids and their parents last Thursday to a meet-the-teacher event at a local park where we picked up Alexander's packet for this school year. And on Saturday I took one for the team, as Michael would say, and spent a couple hours volunteering at the school pulling weeds and helping to get the school ready for the fall. (Michael was the one to keep the kids at home.) I actually got bit on the ankle by a spider! He was a pretty vanilla looking one, though just a few inches from him was the most brilliantly colored little neon yellow spider I'd ever seen.

We also took the children in for their annual check-ups last week. They were each given four vaccination/booster shots! And on Friday we went to Anna's new school (the "big kid school" for K through 5th grade) to turn in her updated vaccination records. She's excited about her new school, and I think it will be good for the children to have their own separate things going on. She's reading so great now. I'll have to get a little video clip to post soon.

The children are growing great, especially compared to their percentiles three years ago, the doctor said. Anna is 43.5 inches tall (in the 75th percentile); and Alexander is 41 inches tall (in the 55th percentile).