School Starts

Wren had his first day of school this week. 5th Grade. Getting older, more mature, and taking awesome responsibility. We are so proud of him. Here he is with his walking buddies from the neighborhood headed down the street to school on Day 2. (Forgot the camera on Day 1, silly me.)

He walks to school with 3 girls, lucky Wren. They are Rachel (5th grade and lives just around the corner), Lulu (4th grade and next door neighbor) and Melody (4th grade and part of the family who will be leaving this fall on the sailing trip). Lulu's brother, Henry, is in 6th grade and has to leave a little be earlier so he can make it over to the middle school on time.


Wren has a great teacher, Mr. Crouter. We met him during the Open house/Watermelon feed. We are very happy with his school.

As Wren starts school, Dakota is going to Kid's Place. A wonderful pre-school right next to Stuart's office. He goes 3 mornings a week giving him a chance to make friends and giving me a chance to breathe. On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and every afternoon, he and I get to hang out, play, go to the library and enjoy some beautiful time together. I will have to take some pictures of our time. I am guessing we will do some great art, bake, garden, make shadow boxes, storytelling and play. I am really enjoying Dakota's stories. Yesterday he told me one that he had heard from Wren with his own sweet twist. Here it is dictated word for word.

"Rain is dinosaur pee. When dinosaurs are alive, they pee on the ground. And when they go extincto, the pea washes all up to the clouds and spits up into the clouds. And when people are alive, the clouds spit it down on to the people. That's why it's yellow pee when it rains."

I think that when a science teacher, either myself or my friend Laura Federico, taught Wren about the water cycle we were explaining that the water that is around today is the same water that was around when the dinosaurs were around. So...water today is dinosaur pee from millions of years ago....