Opening the new school has been a challenge, it is now supposed to be summer, but I imagine I will still be working quite a bit, good thing I have a box of toys for Makana in my classroom! She finished her first year of pre-school a week before I finished work, luckily Gil was able to keep her until about 3:00 each day and then she came to work where she enjoyed coloring on the white boards! Gil and I have been working on the yard since the weather got better, he has done an amazing job of installing sprinklers, building a fence and gate and adding steps to the stoop outside. We still have a lot of work to do, but it is looking better and at least there is no more mud for the dogs to track! Makana has been tending her strawberry plants which are beginning to have fruit despite the fact that she pulled off all the flowers at one point. She also enjoys deadheading the petunias and smelling all the flowers in the garden shops, I am glad she is such a good sport about the garden centers! She also says things that amaze me, her vocabulary is huge, I can't really think of anything that she can't say. The other day she was talking to me an she said, "Young lady," I honestly don't remember using that term with her, but she obviously knows it from me! The teacher said she doesn't talk at all at school, worrisome, but she is learning because she comes home and tells me things that I know she learned at school, things about animals and places. She won't answer questions I ask her about school, but she will later just spout off things. WE got her hair cut this week and she yacked with the girl the entire time, not sure why she won't talk at school. This week Zach is staying with us while his parents are in Mexico. They are playing really well together so far. Yesterday we went to the mall and the kids got their face and arm painted, I will post some of those pics along with some of Makana's first week in swim lessons, of course now she does not want to go any more!
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