The Gosdins: August 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009

Starting School

Our oldest child has started school. Cantley became a Pre-K student on August 19th. Her teacher is Mrs. Wilson. She is loving every minute of it. Below are pics from Meet the Teacher and her first day. She only goes half a day which seems to be just enough for her. She tells about her new friends she is making and a few things they are learning. The other day in the car she said she wanted to tell us something she learned in school. She said she had learned about the United States of American (not a typo). We asked her what that was. She said it was a flag. We asked what is looked like. She said it was all stripey with stars. We asked what it meant or stood for. She told us you put your hand like this (over her heart) and talk to it! We got from that she is learning the pledge. What a great way to describe as a 4 yr. old!

On her way to meet her teacher with a little present.

Giving her present to Mrs. Wilson

Cantley wouldn't leave the cooking station so Mrs. Wilson

came to her for a picture. Cantley tells me she loves Mrs. Wilson's hair!

Again, wouldn't leave the cooking area and loves the play

cupcakes. Dad just went to her for a pic.

On our way to leave, we saw my principal whom Cantley calls

Memaw Jane. We had to get our pic with her before Cantley

ends up in her office in trouble!

Showing off her first day of school outfit.

Her very first school activity. They were making play dough letters.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Catching up...

It has been a busy, but wonderful summer. I apologize for not keeping up with the blog better. Hopefully getting back into a routine will help me out with this, too! Below are several pictures from the last several weeks. They are in backward order, sorry.

We started back to work last week. It was only 3 days of work before the weekend, which was good for me and Ryne. We really missed each other. Cantley on the other hand was angry at us when she couldn't go to Memaw's on Saturday. The social butterfly she is was ready to be back with her friends another day. Ryne is doing really well with Memaw as I knew she would. We are all adjusting to a lot of new things around here. Jonathan has been back coaching football for several weeks now. As Junior High Head Coach, he has his hands full. He is still helping with Sr. High football as well. We all miss him terribly during the week, but again we are adjusting.

Cantley will start Pre-K on Wednesday. She has a great teacher and is so excited about going each day. We bought her school supplies so she is set.

Ryne is changing daily. She is such a good baby. She has been sleeping through the night for weeks and slept for almost 12 hours last night. Like Cantley, she woke up smiling. She has started "talking" to us often and enjoys checking out lots of things around her. Some of her favorite things to look at are the letters spelling her name on her wall and the monkeys that hang from the light in her room. Those monkeys get her smiling and talking often times. It's really cute to watch.

Enjoy the pics below. I will try to update this week with pictures of Cantley's first day of school. I am anxious to see which will get more tears-Ryne first day away from me or Cantley's first day of school!!!!