It has been a long year, but I am going to make an effort to get back into posting more frequently.... time will tell :)
Rather than play catch-up I am going to update about the here and now. Molly started Kindergarten a little over a week ago and is having a fabulous time!! We couldn't be happier. We were all quite nervous about it, but from the first day it has been wonderful. We are so lucky. We moved from Cary to Raleigh 2 years ago so that Molly could continue going to the school she was at for preschool (and to get a ranch for accessibility) and it is now so clear that that was a great decision. One of Molly's preschool teacher's from two years ago was hired as a kindergarten teacher this year and we were lucky enough to get her! They also placed another preschool teacher from 2 years ago in the classroom as the teacher's assistant. This set us up for a great beginning.
Molly was so nervous on the first day and after meeting some friends and all of the preparation that the staff did it was a great first day. Since then she is so excited to go everyday and also excited to tell us all about her day (something she refused to do when at preschool). She is feeling so good about herself and having tons of fun!!
It is wonderful to have great things to report.
We are starting to work on fundraising for a pool for Molly in our backyard so that she can get exercise everyday. We have been thinking about it and planning for it off and on for months and sat down this weekend to "make a sketch". Jim and I are both engineers and began drawing an architectural style picture of what the backyard would look like and wanted Molly to help... after a few minutes of this, Jim realized we were way over Molly's head and suggested she just draw a picture of what it should look like (duh!.. only engineers would start an architectural drawing with their 5 year old :). She drew a pool that was perpendicular to the house. All of our sketches had the pool parallel to the house and didn't quite seem to work... So Molly has come up with a perfect plan for how to make it work :). She is so excited!!!
This morning I wrote down all of my to do items for the week on a white board in the living room. I went out to train Flash (Molly's Service Dog in Training) and came back in to hear Molly announce she was "writing real words"... "I hope that is OK"... I walk in to find she has been "reading" my to do list and rewriting each word on the opposite side of the board and then erasing each item. Adorable :).
More posts to come soon I hope. Off to fold 6 loads and counting of laundry (really).
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