Right now……. (September edition)

….There are about 500 selfies on my new iPhone thanks to Vivi, who is in the terrible twos and will cry unless I indulge her selfie habit.  Super lazy parenting right, but its pretty cute, and I just want to add that we do lots of other non selfie related activities as well.

……Cora is one month away from being ONE YEAR OLD. Wait, what??? Yeah I know, where did that time go??? She is still lacking in the hair department, which just adds to her cuteness. She is also doing pretty awesomely in the cruising round furniture stakes and loves following her siblings around the house.

….Luis started back at school in Third Class/ Year 4 in English years. Can you believe?! His school bag weighs a ton, and he has loads and loads of homework but so far so good. He is liking being back and having his brain active again. He also won an award at the Moate Agri Show for a picture he drew, and is loving being back soccer training. 

……Maxi started First Class/Year 2. His favourite time of the school day is ‘break time’ closely followed by ‘home time’, I feel it may take a while for this one to get into the whole homework thing, but we will get there soon enough. Plus I bribe him with cookies and milk every day after school and we get through it with minimal mistakes or meltdowns!!! He is looking very grown up and I’m finding it hard to believe that this school year he turns 7.

….My sister is staying for pretty much most of September (and next week we are off to see First Aid Kit in Dublin!whooooooop!!!!!!!) so I am baking up a storm and trying all sorts of ‘gooten fwee’ recipes. I have also set a back to school resolution that I will send my children with something home made in their lunch box every day. So far so good and my freezer is pretty well stocked with treats too so this resolution should run at least until February!!!!

….Amelie is back at preschool up to 5 days a week. She is pretty tired every day when she comes home. She is also full of chat all about new songs and friends and stories she has learned. Ive spoken before about how AWESOME her preschool is, the setting is perfect and there is a healthy appreciation for nature and the seasons and generally being healthy and going outside. In short – I love it and so does Amelie. I have confidence all three of my girls will thrive there when their time comes.

…..Amelie got 2 ‘first day’ photos. The second was actually her second day but the original first day photo didn’t save to my iphone properly so I thought I didn’t have one and made her re do the pose with the board right outside her school like a really embarrassing parent. However Mr Clev soon informed me that the real first day photo was actually on the iCloud and all I had to do was back up something or other blah blah blah. Two first day photos for the win right???