August 2015

It's hard to believe we are into the swing of our school schedule.  We have been in school for three weeks already.  In addition to starting school, Lilly started ballet, and Liam started Karate.  They both really love their activities.  It's still hard to believe that I have children in Kindergarten and Preschool.  We still managed to have a lot of fun family moments even though we're back into the fall routine.

Fort Wayne Children's Zoo

On our way to school

Lilly decided to use markers as make-up.  She wasn't very happy that I washed it off.

Liam had s much fun looking for the Gingerbread man at school that he wanted to recreate the experience at home.

Toledo Zoo

If all the things to see at the zoo, the kids were fascinated with the baby robin.

Detroit Zoo

There was a cool Dinosaur exhibit on display while we were there.

waiting for the bus

first night of karate

Astronaut Liam

For our Friday night family time, we let Liam pick a restaurant.  He picked McDonalds (no surprise there).  We went to one with a big play place.  They had an old-school tree.

Lilly's First Day of School

Lilly started Preschool!  This is a big year for her.  She is attending Buschor Hearing Preschool five afternoons a week.  She is attending with other hearing impaired students and will have teachers trained in sign language.  Since speech therapy takes place at school, we decided to take a break from her speech therapy at Parkview.  We will all miss her teacher, Julia.  She was phenomenal.  We hope to go back during Christmas and Summer break.

Lilly gets to ride the bus to and from school, which made her a little nervous at first, but she learned to love it quickly.

Lilly loves our walk to the bus stop.

Because Lilly goes to school in the afternoon, she no longer naps.  She's ready for bed by suppertime.

Lilly also started ballet at Studio 149.  She did well for her first class.

Liam's First Day of School

Liam is so excited to be in Kindergarten!  We are excited for him and look forward to all the ways that he'll grow.  

Liam started by visiting his classroom.  He met his teacher, found his locker, and found his seat at his table.

The night before school started I gave Liam a copy of the book The Kissing Hand.  I wrote a little note in the front of the book and dated it.  We read it together.  The next morning I put one of the stickers from his book on his hand, so he had a kiss from me to carry with him all day.

Liam's first day of Kindergarten!

Liam had gym class his first day of school and unfortunately collided with another student and got a giant goose egg on his forehead.  It didn't seem to bother him too much.  He said, "Don't worry, I still want to go back."

Liam loves school so much that he often comes home and has school with his stuffed animals.  He also teaches the rest of the family and often makes us all participate in science experiments.  

School all day, five days a week is exhausting

Here are some of our favorite quotes from Liam during the first week of school -

"I am a little disappointed that we don't have science class more often."

"It's great that my teacher has a good singing voice."

(When asked about music class) - "You know, there is this room beside the cafeteria, which I thought was off-limits, but once you walk in, you realize that it's the music room.  It's like a hidden room."

(Explaining why he was on yellow on the discipline chart at school) "The other boys were encouraging me to turn the lights on and off.  After talking to my teacher I realized that I should listen to the voice in my head instead of the boys."

The moment Liam gets in the van at the end of the day, he begins to tell me all about the day.  I hope he stays this way!

Family Pictures (Summer 2015)

The whole Herman family was together, so we had to take a picture.  The last picture we had taken was two years ago, so we were due for an update.  We took some individual family pictures as well. 

Typical Family portrayal - Lilly is done taking pictures and Liam wants to tell me something.