Most of Haven friends are starting preschool this year, but we decided to wait until next year to start her in school officially. For one thing, I am not ready to send her off! Also it's not the best time for us to undertake preschool financially, so we decided instead to invest the money in dance classes. Haven started pre-ballet on Thursday. She was very excited to put on her pink leotard and tights.
I was a little disappointed in the 'teachers' (high school students who knew nothing about little kids and taught the class like a regular ballet class) and the floor in the kid studio was a disgrace, but we are going to stick with it for at least this month before we switch studios. Haven reports that she did not have fun and she did not like it, but she wants to go back. It was the first thing she asked for this morning. All in all it was VERY cute to witness and I'm already one of those horrible dance moms.
Our good friend Jess came up from Tacoma last weekend to visit us. We went for a beautiful hike up on Mt Baker. The fall weather was chilly, but gorgeous.
Even though the hike was quite vertical, once Haven got ahold of her walking sticks she was a champ.
We have been having some gorgeous fall weather. On Saturday we went to a fruit festival at a local farm. Haven painted some pumpkins, we tasted fruit and cider and had a picnic in the grass while a celtic band played. Haven ate all the caramel off of her caramel apple. We love fall!
Most of Haven friends are starting preschool this year, but we decided to wait until next year to start her in school officially. For one thing, I am not ready to send her off! Also it's not the best time for us to undertake preschool financially, so we decided instead to invest the money in dance classes. Haven started pre-ballet on Thursday. She was very excited to put on her pink leotard and tights.
I was a little disappointed in the 'teachers' (high school students who knew nothing about little kids and taught the class like a regular ballet class) and the floor in the kid studio was a disgrace, but we are going to stick with it for at least this month before we switch studios. Haven reports that she did not have fun and she did not like it, but she wants to go back. It was the first thing she asked for this morning. All in all it was VERY cute to witness and I'm already one of those horrible dance moms.
Our chickens have started laying! It has been very exciting for us, tomorrow morning for breakfast we eat our own eggs!!!
The chickens, all grown up. So far only the black one will let me pet her.
