All You Need Is Love

The girls are in school 5 days a week in the mornings and Mommy is still job hunting which is harder than I thought it would be. Have had 4 interviews in the past 6 months for so but no offers. I just have to keep remembering that God has a plan for us and His plan so far has made me the mother that I am today and is growing my children with integrity.

 

I am just taking this time to continue reveling in my children as they grow and prosper. There is no better feeling than knowing that I could be there for them emotionally and physically each day even though we don’t have much and we struggle daily with the financial aspects of life. I can’t give them a big house with a playroom full of toys and their own bedrooms. Nor can I give them exactly what they want to eat each day or feed them all organic foods but I know that even if we lived in a one room apartment eating peanut butter and jelly three times a day that they would know my love and devotion for them.

Homework

 

I know what you must be thinking right now. “Homework?!? But they’re in preschool!” So before we panic let me start out by saying that any homework that the kids get is completely voluntary. The girls are a little behind with their writing due to it taking awhile for them to decide on a dominant hand (mostly LadyBug) so their teacher made up some practice sheets to help them with writing their names.

They think that they are so big having homework to do just like their big cousins and sit studiously at the table pretty quietly. Since they’ve been working on it their sheets their names are actually mostly legible!

Hannah aka Butterfly

Hannah is more artistically minded and we (their teacher and I) have found that to help her with her letters if you describe each letter as an object to draw instead of a letter to write she does much better. So her a’s are circles with a little tail, her n’s are little rainbows and her little h’s are rainbows with a stick on top.

Hailey aka LadyBug

Hailey does not do as well with her letters yet. I think it is because she thinks to hard about each one. My favorite one is her i’s. They are a small stick with a circle sitting on top. Her e’s are phenomenal though. How she got those down so easily and the a’s escape her makes me giggle.

Our First School Photo

 

The photographer came to the girls preschool to do photos. She was nice enough to do one of the both of them together for us as well. It came out beautifully!

A Little Modeling Before School

 

First Day of School

I haven't had internet access lately so I'm really behind. I'll do a full post for the first day but for now I'll leave you with this photo.

 

 

It’s hard to believe my girls are already four and off to preschool. I was a little worried about how well they would get up and ready on the first day but they surprised me and did well. They got up and dressed pretty quickly and were extremely excited to get out the door. Butterfly only let me get one decent photo before we left the house. She was a grump and refused to give me a good smile with one exception. Although, it isn’t the traditional first day of school photo it works for me!

We met Daddy at school and were the first ones to class. They got time to really explore the room and meet their teacher (whom I LOVE!) without vying for attention.

We are lucky that they already knew two friends from class. Our friends are another set of twins we’ve known from near birth. In their class they are one of four girls in their class of thirteen! I was a little worried about the boy to girl ratio but when they go out to the playground they go with another class which has more girls so they have been able to make more girlfriends.

We absolutely adore their teacher and can not believe how much they are already learning.