It's pretty crazy to think this is the start of our 4th year. While each year had it's slow times, overall, these past three years have flown by. We started in Oman with a 20 month old and now have an almost 5 year old and 1 1/2 year old.
After a week of recovering from jetlag, we jumped right into inservice week and school beginning. Aberly was super excited to get back to school and see all her old friends. Her EC-1 class was split in half between the two EC-2 classes. She was lucky to stay with one of her besties, Lara, but had to leave a few other friends behind. Luckily, she sees them every day during shared recess time and they have other EC-2 group activities together. Aberly is in the class with a new teacher at our school, Loralea Wood (she's wonderful!), and she is having a great time.
Emalyn is home each day with Eunice and settling into the routine of having us gone. She is still quite sad to see us go each day and clings to us until the moment will pull away. We are happy to see that the sadness seems to be abating little by little each day. She does love Eunice, but is very much in a mommy, and even more so, daddy phase. We are certain she misses her sissy too, but luckily for her, Aberly comes home each day at 12:45.
The weather has been stifling hot with high humidity recently. As Colin said, we live in the desert, not the tropics, right? The evenings haven't been so bad, but the days are not enjoyable. Lots of inside time. We do our best to get the girls outside in the mornings and evenings and are grateful for the shade we get on our side of the house all morning for Emalyn's sake at home.
We have been spending time with friends and school get togethers. We recently attended a hilarious 80's birthday party for one of our coworkers and have had a few different dinners at our home, as well as spending a couple lovely get togethers at other friends' homes. Besides the wonderful friends we've made at school, we've been blessed to get to know some other couples and their kids better in the last year. As our British friends* would day, our diary has been quite full of event.
Finally, Aberly started ballet today and LOVED it. She has been dying to start for the last two weeks and was about peeing her pants all day today in anticipation of going. On top of starting ballet, she is super lucky to have two of her besties in class with her, Lara and Isla. She had a FANTASTIC TIME!
* Speaking of British friends, I miss my dear British boss Mark (former Athletic Director) who is now working in Saudi. I work under a fantastic new AD, Luther, who has worked as a PE teacher in our school prior to this. I have to say that I loved working with a Brit as his lingo/slang/phrases/words never ceased to make me laugh and be puzzled. I often had to look things up on the internet to know what he meant. Thankfully I still am surrounded by some lovely Brits who either work at our school, like our nurse, or other local schools. I love em'!
Best British lingo Mark said one time that we had a fantastic laugh over:
Mark: "I'll be nippin' out for a bit, yeah."
Me: Stifling laughter. "What?"
Mark: "I'll be nippin' out, stepping out for just a bit."
Me: "Do you know what that means in America?"
Mark: Puzzled face. "No"
Me: chuckling "It's when a person gets cold and their "nipping out" of their shirt".
Laughter ensues
After a week of recovering from jetlag, we jumped right into inservice week and school beginning. Aberly was super excited to get back to school and see all her old friends. Her EC-1 class was split in half between the two EC-2 classes. She was lucky to stay with one of her besties, Lara, but had to leave a few other friends behind. Luckily, she sees them every day during shared recess time and they have other EC-2 group activities together. Aberly is in the class with a new teacher at our school, Loralea Wood (she's wonderful!), and she is having a great time.
1st Day of School 2014
Waiting for the bus with her neighbor Izzy
The weather has been stifling hot with high humidity recently. As Colin said, we live in the desert, not the tropics, right? The evenings haven't been so bad, but the days are not enjoyable. Lots of inside time. We do our best to get the girls outside in the mornings and evenings and are grateful for the shade we get on our side of the house all morning for Emalyn's sake at home.
A wild and crazy weekend night with the girls
80's exercise queen
Colin hangin' with some other awesome 80's dudes
* Speaking of British friends, I miss my dear British boss Mark (former Athletic Director) who is now working in Saudi. I work under a fantastic new AD, Luther, who has worked as a PE teacher in our school prior to this. I have to say that I loved working with a Brit as his lingo/slang/phrases/words never ceased to make me laugh and be puzzled. I often had to look things up on the internet to know what he meant. Thankfully I still am surrounded by some lovely Brits who either work at our school, like our nurse, or other local schools. I love em'!
Best British lingo Mark said one time that we had a fantastic laugh over:
Mark: "I'll be nippin' out for a bit, yeah."
Me: Stifling laughter. "What?"
Mark: "I'll be nippin' out, stepping out for just a bit."
Me: "Do you know what that means in America?"
Mark: Puzzled face. "No"
Me: chuckling "It's when a person gets cold and their "nipping out" of their shirt".
Laughter ensues
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