I'm Back!!

That's right...I am finally back! I went on a little mini vacation with my husband for Labor Day weekend with some friends. This is my husband and I out on the water.

 We spent 2 full days out on the boat, fishing and catching some sun! Here's the biggest fish of the weekend, caught by us girls!

We also got to see a really neat lighthouse that helps the freighters find the Bay channel. It was really cold. 

Now, on to the first week of school. We have been busy in preschool. The first day was a VERY hectic day! I was so overwhelmed by the first day...collecting state forms, matching parents to children, making sure all wash hands immediately (thank you, YoungStar program!), and avoiding separation anxiety. It was a wonderfully, chaotic day! So chaotic in fact, that I didn't even take any pictures! That was Tuesday. 

Our second day of school was on Thursday of last week. I loved seeing the kids again! They all came in smiling and ready for another day! We haven't had any major meltdowns (yet!). The kids are learning the letter Ll for the first couple days of school. In honor of the letter L, we made roaring "L" lions! Here are a couple...

(I still don't know how to turn pictures...if you know, help!) 

We also had a morning message and calendar time. The kids are doing a great job with the calendar time, we just go through and say the month several times, then the day, then we say the day, month, date several times. It is still pretty abstract to them, but we will learn more about our calendar later. Here are some pictures. 

I am super proud of my birthday bulletin board! I love the cute birthday charts but always like to do a little more. I happened to have another birthday set handy so I combined them and came up with this! 

Finally, we did a fun little song. I got the idea from another blogger. Unfortunately, I can't find the original source as of right now. I will post credit as soon as I find it again! Click this to go to a similar link. We created the "Apple Man" with felt and sang "Do You Know the Apple Man?" (to the tune of "Do You Know the Muffin Man?"). Here is our Apple Man: 

They did such a good job!! And I had so much fun singing this song with them!

That's all for now. I will post more later about this week and the adorable lamps that we made!! I forgot to take pictures, so I will put those up tomorrow!