House Day 14 and Bus Ride Night at School

What an emotional day. It began in Lancaster visiting with Tyler and his family. We came home early evening to take Natalie to a Bus Ride Night at school. We met in the auditorium, were briefed by the Principal, Natalie and other K-gartners went on a bus ride while were were furthur introduced to the goings on at the school. I was very impressed with the presentation and the things that are being done at the school. I am also VERY impressed that with a half day K class (2.75 hours to be exact) most all K students READ by the end of the first year. Amazing that (as P-pal mentioned) 20 years ago we were learning the Alphabet and colors in K-garten. It is great that there are such high expectations. He also spoke about how at this early age their brains are soaking in everything and now is the time to teach them to read and WRITE (he really emphasized this). Natalie is already reading and writing. She does struggle on some words still but her writing is amazing. She has gotten so much better even in the last month. I am amazed by the words she spells almost perfectly. Smart girl!

Anyway, she was able to remeet her teacher and meet some of the kids. She was VERY excited. Of course as they were lining the kids up against the wall before the bus ride I started blubbering. I could not control the tears. It was too emotionaly overwhleming. I am sure all you friends with older kids know what I went through...but it was hard...and it was not even the first day of school. Yikes!

Afterward she played outside for a while. This will be one of our next parks considering it will be a few minutes walk from our new home.

To make a long blog even longer...we visited the home...not too much done since Tuesday. They have prepped it for pouring the basement floor and garage floor. It should be under roof by end of next week.

And to make it even longer,

Get this... the man we purchased our land from..RELATIVE. It is amazing. I met his brother tonight and he and shared family stories--it was confirmed by my mother that we indeed ARE related. The Mennonites are big into FH also. I am so excited. He also lives in our neighborhood. We will certainly be getting together.

WOW, longest entry ever...Sorry. Enjoy the pics.