SCHOOL!

Since there's no observation of Labor Day here:) we started school on Monday.  Raquel is in first grade and  I am homeschooling her.  This is her desk (or 'office' as she likes to call it). 

She was very excited to start.  We are now on the third day and some of that excitement has worn off a bit, but she is doing well.

 To help Raquel and I have a little time to ourselves, we decided to have Gideon attend a little preschool at our church.  It is just Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for about an hour and a half.

 Dylan takes him there on the motorbike, which he loves.  He has to bring a snack and water bottle.  It's pretty cute.

 We thought it would be a hard transition for him to be left there by himself and were anticipating many tears at least for the first week or so.  However, he loves it.  I picked him up on Monday and he was so excited to tell me about what he had done.  His favorite part was playing with the toy cars, of course.  He was so excited that when a man came to pick up his daughter, Gideon screamed 'Daddy' and ran to the man (who, obviously looked nothing like Dylan) and threw his arms around him.  Once he stepped back and realized it wasn't Dylan, he still didn't care and just kept talking.  He ran around like crazy when he got home and then took a really good nap:)

Dylan took these pictures when he dropped him off today.  There was a dog just hanging out in the church for a little bit:)