so long, summer

Not a baby anymore

Oh, how we love the cabin

This photo brings me joy on so many levels

Xander in kindergarten!

alright, so i guess i'm not really a mom who takes pictures of her kids on their first day of school.  so you can forget about that.  none the less, it is still worth noting that we have a kindergartener now!

Xander has been ready to get back to school.  so have i!  it sure is nice to get back to a "normal" schedule.  

kindergarten is 2 times a week, full days.  that means he gets to eat his lunch at school (weird!).  Xander also gets to repeat pre-school on the non-kindergarten days.  not because he "failed" at pre-school.  it will just be extra interaction with kids close to his age that will help him develop more advanced social skills.  i think he'll also be doing some extra-curricular activities like he did last year.  (gymnastics, horse ridding, swimming, etc).  

i am a little nervous about kindergarten, mostly because they will be doing more writing this year.  and Xander doesn't write anything.  he can just barely write his name.  it's hard for him to make the letters, and when they don't come out "right" it becomes frustrating for him.  so he just doesn't do it.  i wonder if he's left handed sometimes.  but he is starting to read things now, so at least he won't struggle in that department.

so for his first day of school they had an assembly where they were asking trivia about Mountain View School.  Xander was sitting with a buddy from an older grade, and he wanted to answer a question so bad.  so for one of the questions his buddy was able to give him the answer when he was called, on and he won a toque!  he was very excited!

it will be a great year.  but it sure is quiet around here during the day.  that's not a bad thing really.  just different.  Judy sure is crying less (Xander isn't a bully to her, she is just really territorial lately).  

go grizzlies!!

house update!

yea... there is no update...

for some reason we've been waiting weeks for our engineered drawings to come in from the manufacturers.  so to answer one of the questions we've been asked lately:

no, we haven't dug a hole yet.  we can't dig until we get the engineered drawings to know where proper footing/pilling placements need to be.  we can't even get the building permit!

everything is waiting on the engineered drawings.  we signed off on our house plan weeks ago, so why is it taking so long to get the official drawings?  we don't know.  but that is the update.  

we are completely tied up in these drawings.  i hope that doesn't mean bad news.  by my estimation, we are 4-6 weeks behind where we initially wanted to be.  

but it is what it is, and we're not going to worry too much about it.  after all, we can stay here at the campground indefinitely so there is really no rush... other than i don't want to be stuck out here in January and February!  so much snow... so.so.much.snow...