Week one completed

My first week of school is done, and although it was not a full week, I came home Friday afternoon absolutely exhausted. Overall the first three days went great. I was very prepared and the students were all great. Of course there were a few beginning of the year confusions and mishaps, but we are on our way! I have about 140 names to learn and I left Friday feeling confident with close to 100 of then I think, so hopefully in a few days I will have all the names down. In my past three years of teaching I have never taught the same class more than twice in a day, so teaching the same math lesson 5 times a day is an adjustment. I have found myself being very sick of the lesson the last couple time, but I obviously can't let the students know that. But at the same time I have perfected the lesson by that time as well. It will be an adjustment, but good one I think.
the last of the student are moving into our building today and class starts tomorrow for Malone students. So finally Tony's normal schedule will be starting this week. Here is a picture of his lovely staff at a bowling event.

Zoe is doing well. She continues to say new words and have new expressions every week and we spend a good amount of time laughing at her (all out of love of course). She is finally adjusting to the 1 nap schedule and is sleeping 10-12 hours at night, so that has been great. Because I am not home very much I do not have many pics of Zoe . I will try to be better about that when I am home or try to get Tony to use the camera. Here are couple. The first is a side of Zoe that has been seen more frequently, that being her girly side. She gets very excited whenever I put her in a dress and she loves wearing that hat and carrying around her purse. And the second of Zoe doing what she does best - smelling flowers.


We have been busy trying to figure what to do with our Jeep. The transmission is in bad shape (it's only a 2006) and we need new tires and possibly a few other things. Because we got a heck of a deal when we bought it we can almost get what we paid for it 15 months ago in a trade in. So we are thinking of getting a bigger Sedan that gets better gas mileage but still has room for all of Zoe's stuff. I really don't want to buy a new vehicle, but we are thinking it is probably the best choice right now. We will see what happens.
Happy First Day Of School for all of you starting this week!