First Day of School

The kids started school on Wednesday. Jeffrey was very excited to go back to Stay and Play, he has a lot of friends there. New teachers seem nice and all the kids seem so big now! Meredith started in the tiny tot 1 year old room this fall, she liked it - the teachers tell me she colored with crayons, played on the slide in the big room and played with the pretend kitchen.

Here's the pictures from the first day, it was so rainy we had to take pictures inside this year!

Jeffrey and Meredith are ready to go!



Jeffrey ready for Fabulous Fours!

Meredith loves her new backpack, it has owls on it!

A hike with Jeffrey and his camera

Gwen got Jeffrey a little digital camera made for kids, so he's been taking some pictures. He and I went for a little walk in the woods at Shaver's Creek. It was a hot and very muggy day - the weather station at home (Thanks Uncle Dave!) claimed 80% relative humidity at 79 degrees F. Anyway we still had fun. There was a lot of orange touch me nots blooming by the creek and Jeffrey was excited about little regions of moss.

Sweaty Jeffrey and his moss bed

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Jeffrey and his camera

From September_2011

Taken by Jeffrey with his camera. The camera has some nice enhancements as you can see:

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Meredith is a Walker!

Saturday August 28th was the day that it all 'clicked' for Meredith and she officially became a 'Walker'! She is sauntering around everywhere with great balance now (for the most part!). And can even pivot and change directions completely. She waited until she was sure she knew what she was doing and now she is walking great! Now she just walks right into the room like it is no big deal. But it is to us, yay for Meredith!

Meredith walks at 16 months.

Jeffrey walking at 15 months.