Kid Stuff

It's been a social whirlwind around here all of a sudden, and who knows why?

Sammy has a new friend who lives right here in our apartment complex and there have been phone calls, I've met the parents, they've all been to each others' places and this afternoon there was a swimming playdate. Jordan's been invited to see High School Musical on Ice and have a sleepover in December with one friend and she spent all day Saturday at a playdate with another. And Claudia spent the afternoon hanging out with three friends at one of her friends' houses on Sunday after church.

Sam likes her new school quite a lot and she recently tried peel and eat shrimp and loved it! Also, she made an excellent coctail sauce to go with it (we're teaching the girlies to cook because girls need to know how to cook!), but it was too spicey for children.

Jordan likes her new teacher and new class. We're excited about how her teacher is focusing on writing and how it's being taught. She's super excited about the fact that she's joined the dance club and I'm especially super excited that it's in the morning, which is a good thing for working parents.

Interestingly, Sam and Jordan are playing together on the playground pretty much every day, along with other kids, too. It's nice that they get to see each other every day.

Claudia's liking school a lot, I think, even though she claims the contrary when asked directly. She has funny stuff to tell us every day. Her social studies teacher is having them play this really cool game to learn all sorts of history/geography/sciencey sorts of things. Her English teacher seems to be a complete dolt, and also they're reading Steinbeck (God, I so hate Steinbeck. Why do they do that?!? and how shocked was she tonight when she read that the baby had it's head blown away at the end?!?)but we'll just have to deprogram her every night when she gets home. I'm trying to get her to join the academic team, which I think she would love if she would just give it a chance and a new lacrosse team they're forming for the 5th-8th graders. She took her first band test today and I got to practice her piece with her last night and that was pretty fun.

I've hardly taken any photos lately, but here are a few.

Jamie and Jordan completely engrossed in some kind of super hero movie. It looks like it's turned them into zombies.



Jamie teaching Claudia how to play guitar.



Jamie at the highschool football game we took Claudia to on Saturday. Claudia was off purchasing her mommy some nachos.