Sunday we went to the apple orchard in Hobart Indiana with the Wilsons, Sienna, Noah and Hal and Josée. Weather was great and of course the GPS is still wrong like last year.
Anyways, we ate so many apples that i was almost sick of them. Delicious though. They are getting ready to do some major renovations there as well as they are building out a welcome center. The currrent one is way too busy and small.
We all managed to get bitten by mosquitoes. there were no shortages of them in the orchards.
Charlie even got one dead smack on his forehead. The funniest part of that is that he had school pictures on Monday. That along with a stye in his eye he was a sight for sore eyes ;-) pun intended.
Anyways, that made for some interesting pictures and a nervous Eileen the next day.
Today, Eileen joined 6 other Moms and the 2 teachers to visit a pumpkin farm with the class. Charlie's buddy, owen, were the 2 Eileen was responsible for and sounded like a lot of fun. They even fell asleep on each other on the bus on the way home.
Sounds like they had a good time.
Today Charlie was too tired to go to skating lessons though. Bummer.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Swimming Skating and School
School is getting easier especially since the weather is so great in the morning. This means we get quality play time outside playing soccer, football, hockey , baseball and basketball. As soon as we can we jump outside and play which makes getting dressed easy and after a while of playing much easier to take a break and jump into the van to get off to school. With drink in hand he has no complaints.
Also, I think he's having a good time at school as well and has a few pals. Although, he really refuses to talk about school, you can ask him as many times as you want and he usually ignores the question or just doesn't even look at you, as if you weren't even talking.
Rarely does he say anything about school at all. We do know what he is doing at school since the schedule is online and the teachers keep us informed with a few emails a day these days about everything that is going on.
We even got a seperate email from the teacher describing how Charlie is doing and behaving. Things are great. We think his favorite class is gym since he does talk about the trampolines occasionally. And if you hint about classes he had during the day, say music, the most he'll do is just nod his head that he had that class.
Eileen and Charlie are off around 8:15 a.m. every day and he's there for until 11:45a.m. After that Eileen has his afternoons busy with activities. This week they met friends at a park, he started swimming classes and skating on Tuesdays.
He's getting real good at skating and since its just down the block from my work, I hop over there and watch him. He doesn't want to skate in reverse yet but forward he's doing really well. He's one of the smallest of his group, which is the medium group. There's a beginners and a more advanced group on the rink at the same time and he's in the middle.
He likes it alot and we typically go across the street to the diner for dinner afterwards.
His favorite part is of course the fact that they hand out suckers at the end and the young ones all like up for that.
Swimming today he did really well. The class is only 2 other kids and is done through the park district so its heavily subsidized. I think it was only $50 for 8 weeks.
The part he doesn't like is dunking his head. He made it known that he really didn't want to do it but I think through peer pressure it happened anyways. When I got home though he was excited to tell me how much fun he had.
We don't get much time at night anymore since he isn't napping during the day which means by 7 he's in bed and most often alseep. He typically gets a good 12 hours as well with a pee break in the middle of the night (depending on how much liquid intake before bed, of course).
Also, I think he's having a good time at school as well and has a few pals. Although, he really refuses to talk about school, you can ask him as many times as you want and he usually ignores the question or just doesn't even look at you, as if you weren't even talking.
Rarely does he say anything about school at all. We do know what he is doing at school since the schedule is online and the teachers keep us informed with a few emails a day these days about everything that is going on.
We even got a seperate email from the teacher describing how Charlie is doing and behaving. Things are great. We think his favorite class is gym since he does talk about the trampolines occasionally. And if you hint about classes he had during the day, say music, the most he'll do is just nod his head that he had that class.
Eileen and Charlie are off around 8:15 a.m. every day and he's there for until 11:45a.m. After that Eileen has his afternoons busy with activities. This week they met friends at a park, he started swimming classes and skating on Tuesdays.
He's getting real good at skating and since its just down the block from my work, I hop over there and watch him. He doesn't want to skate in reverse yet but forward he's doing really well. He's one of the smallest of his group, which is the medium group. There's a beginners and a more advanced group on the rink at the same time and he's in the middle.
He likes it alot and we typically go across the street to the diner for dinner afterwards.
His favorite part is of course the fact that they hand out suckers at the end and the young ones all like up for that.
Swimming today he did really well. The class is only 2 other kids and is done through the park district so its heavily subsidized. I think it was only $50 for 8 weeks.
The part he doesn't like is dunking his head. He made it known that he really didn't want to do it but I think through peer pressure it happened anyways. When I got home though he was excited to tell me how much fun he had.
We don't get much time at night anymore since he isn't napping during the day which means by 7 he's in bed and most often alseep. He typically gets a good 12 hours as well with a pee break in the middle of the night (depending on how much liquid intake before bed, of course).
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Le Weekend...
Ah yes, Charlie is starting to learn that Saturdays are a good thing. He didn't have to get up and ready right away and he could lounge around in his pyjamas and take it easy.
It was a rainy day and we took it easy in the morning and putzed around the house. We went out to sportsmart and got his first golf set, left handed one at that. Turns out that even though he's right handed he shoots hockey and golf like a lefty.
Sportsmart had a left handed set from Jack Nicholson on clearance, complete with 9 irons, hat and covers for the clubs. The back had shoulder straps and he put that on and bumped into everything at the store. He's ready to go out to the driving range with Dad now!
We found the driving range just a few miles up north along the lake and for a large bucket of 100 balls its $13 and enough activity for him to wear him out. He loves it, but heck, who wouldn't when you don't have to pick the balls up ;-)
P.S. No idea why the French call it Le Weekend...we know it as La fin de semaine...weird.
It was a rainy day and we took it easy in the morning and putzed around the house. We went out to sportsmart and got his first golf set, left handed one at that. Turns out that even though he's right handed he shoots hockey and golf like a lefty.
Sportsmart had a left handed set from Jack Nicholson on clearance, complete with 9 irons, hat and covers for the clubs. The back had shoulder straps and he put that on and bumped into everything at the store. He's ready to go out to the driving range with Dad now!
We found the driving range just a few miles up north along the lake and for a large bucket of 100 balls its $13 and enough activity for him to wear him out. He loves it, but heck, who wouldn't when you don't have to pick the balls up ;-)
P.S. No idea why the French call it Le Weekend...we know it as La fin de semaine...weird.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Charlie's 4th day of School
Charlie started lycée francais last Thursday. So far so good. Today he was warming up to the other kids in the class and explained how he talked to another boy in the class but the girl he was with after class, holding her hand coming down the stairs to meet Mommy spoke english.
Mornings are still a bit of a battle to get him going and dressed but I think after a few weeks the new routine will kick in.
Of course, that is supposed to get easier.
In the afternoon he was off to skating lessons. He did well and he's now in the intermediate group and learning a lot. Eileen got some videos so I'll have to post them.
Mornings are still a bit of a battle to get him going and dressed but I think after a few weeks the new routine will kick in.
Of course, that is supposed to get easier.
In the afternoon he was off to skating lessons. He did well and he's now in the intermediate group and learning a lot. Eileen got some videos so I'll have to post them.
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