Edzea is learning the colours in french. So now she knows “jaune, bleu, and rouge”. We played a game today at lunch to pick out everything “jaune” that we could see. Rohan picked it up after Edzea said it once. He said “bananas are jaune”. Wow. Oh and she added “brun and violet” to what she remembered before bed tonight.

Rohan had preschool this morning. All went well. Amanda said that six kids screamed, cried for the entire two hours. Rohan, Madison and another friend’s child , Liam, were the happiest. Thank goodness because Mommy likes preschool too!

I think I’m going to quit daycare for the kids. I have some nice downtime with Edzea at school now and I don’t like the sickness they bring home. I’m going to talk to Tim about it. If I do get sick or I need time, Amanda and I can do a trade like Tracey and I used to or if worse came to worst, Tim could stay home for a day if I was really sick.

Edzea had a fantastic swimming lesson yesterday. She improved greatly after hertime at the lake. Amazing. She actually propels forward really well with her big arm front swim now and did a back swim with arms yesterday for the first time. I’m so impressed with her at 4. She’s the youngest in her class as usual. It looks like she is going to be a great swimmer after all! We just need to get Rohan in now. There is a family swim after her lesson on Monday so I’m going to attempt to take all three into the water next Monday. I don’t have to worry about Edzea on her own anymore so I can focus on Rohan and Neve.

Also…Edzea told us that she knows who’s going to be her “Daddy” aka “husband” when she gets bigger…Superman. She believes that she saw him at the pool the other day! Tim says he likes her aspirations!

Wow, so much has happened/changed in the past 6 months but really it’s flown by. I can’t actually believes she’s 1/2 a year old already!!! and so alert and full of smiles and interested in everything. She’s been eating solids for a week or so now. So far so good. Loves to sit in her high chair with the kids at lunch and dinner and be a part of the family. She also mimics everything you ask her too right now so comprehension is high as per the other two!! She sits on her own now. That was about two days ago…but not a sign of one tooth yet. Kind of strange. Rohan and Edzea had their first at 5 months and kept going from there.

Here are a few pics of Edzea’s latest artistic creations. One from a workshop on Paul Klee’s cats this weekend with her art teacher and a drawing of ghosts at night under a red sky-a Halloween pic she told me.

Then, three kids in the bath. Neve LOVED it. Kept splashing and giggling.

Tired now…tomorrow I start swimming again in the morning, both kids have school and Tim is out working all night.

Bonjour mes amis, bonjour mes amis…and on and on and on. That is what Edzea is singing today. She says it’s her french teachers “hello” song. We all visited her school last night for the book fair and then went for dinner at Papa Sam’s.

She has a new “crush”. The ten year old boy who gets on the bus with her in the morning. Thank goodness because she did not want to go to school today and he is her new motivation. She likes to see him and he leads the JK’ers off the bus to their class each morning. He’s a nice kid in the neighbourhood although poor little guy, his Mom died 3 or 4 years ago.

She didn’t want to go to school after learning that Rohan attended a cooking class with Mommy at Brown’s and made cake yesterday. She doesn’t want to miss that! so we are downplaying what goes on while she’s at school now! Poor Rohan, he finally gets Mommy to himself and she can’t stand it!

Went to Rohan’s first day of preschool on Tuesday. It all went well until they asked me to leave. He wailed for 10 minutes before they called me back in. He now says he doesn’t like school. Luckily, Amanda, is the duty parent on Tuesday and me next Thursday so hopefully he’ll get more used to being there and get used to the new teachers.

Edzèa had her first day of Junior Kindergarten today. I will post the pics when Tim helps me with my computer memory problem sometime this weekend. I wanted to post about her first day before I forgot.

She was extremely excited and had a hard time getting to sleep last night. I think she finally fell asleep at 9:30 and then was up at 6:30 this morning.

This was her first time on the school bus. It picks her up next door to us. We met our neighbour and his son Carter (gr.3) and another boy, Mitchell who were waiting for the bus too. Nana was with Neve in the van waiting as we were going to follow the bus to Edzea’s school. Rohan waited at the bus stop with us. She was a little hesitant to get on the bus even though she’d been saying she was excited about it.

I finally had to give her a little push up the stairs and luckily there were 3 other little girls from Senior Kindergarten in the other front seats. We followed the bus to school and I got out to meet her coming out of the bus. She was happy to see me but happier to see her teacher and follow her teacher into the classroom.

We had them bring her back home today instead of daycare as it was her first day. Nana and I and Neve were waiting for her at home. She told us she had a “good day”. She played in the playground before going into school. Her inside shoes that we bought her “don’t really feel very good Mommy”. Her teacher sang, played guitar and piano for them to clean up. No she didn’t have a french lesson today but a guest came in to class and she couldn’t understand a word that she said. She later told us that the guest spoke french but her teacher doesn’t.

The were all told to draw for a little while and then their storytime was to talk about their pictures. ” No one else drew a house or people Mommy. They all kind of scribbled” eye roll. “Actually none of their drawings were very pretty, just scribbled. I didn’t like their drawing. Serious, they just scribbled. They are all young.” We then told her that it was like Rohan and to tell them that you liked their colours or lines.

” I know Mommy. I’m just saying. I’m just telling you. I will be nice.”

Loves her teacher, Mrs. Cardy. We love her too. She’s musical. Interested in having more art history projects in the classroom which I am going to volunteer to help with/teach.

Liked her snack. Wants to help with snack in future. Great day overall.

Rohan is at daycare. We couldn’t find Edzea’s shoes when we needed to meet the school bus…they weren’t where she left them. I asked Rohan where he put them. He pretended to ignore us and after a few more requests to find them. He told us that he put them in the basement. I looked down the stairs and they were thrown down the stairs. It was his way of rebelling. He was NOT happy that Edzea was going to school and he had to go to daycare today. He screamed and clung to me when we got to daycare.

I’m going to pick him up on his own today and Nana will look after Edzea and Neve. I’ll have something special for him.

Oh, when we met her teacher on Wednesday…first things out her mouth when she was touring the classroom were “I recognize two of the books here. We have them at home. “Tiptoe into kindergarten” and “The Kissing Hand.” The teacher raised her eyebrows.