New Activities

The girls finished their first week of school (kindergarten and pre-school).  And despite this big change for them both, they each took up a new activity this week. 

Sarah started her gymnastics class on Thursday:  Here she is with the other girls listening to instructions:

Working on crawling over obstacles:

Her very unique way of getting down the tumble track (she did it exactly the same all 3 times):

And learning balance doing hopscotch:

And Emma had her first horseback riding lesson on Friday after school.  Here she is learning to groom her horse, starting with the tail:

 The hooves:

 All decked out and ready to go:

On the horse with her instructor, Miss Cheryl:

And being led around the ring by the helper.  Emma even did a little trot, but mommy missed the video of her screeching "Too fast!"

What a great first week to the school year. And best of all, Emma still likes, and wants to go, to school!

First Day of School

Today was Emma's first day of school.  A very sad day for mommy!

Here was her chosen school outfit (it is Princess Celestia from My Little Pony):

 She was super excited to go to school:

Sarah was excited about Emma's first day and her own (thinking she was going to kindergarten also).  That lasted until we got to pre-school:

By her school sign:

 With her teacher, Ms. Shubel:

 With her table-mates working on her first assignment:

Her first story time on the carpet: