1st Day(s) of School 2017

 It's that time of year again.  We love the first day of school so much, we did it twice this year.  Here is George on his first day at Central Primary School.

And at school.

Today is the first day at St. Pat's.  Patrick, who will be in 6th grade, had to be at school early for choir practice. 

 

Here's my boys.

Miss Rebecca is going to be in 4th grade this year.

Lovely.

Now for the girls.

Mary was not to excited about pictures so we let her go for this one.

All five beautiful, amazing, loud Hatton kids.

I did follow the kids into the school to get one last picture.  They loved it.

Today, Mary also turns 18 months old.  She's getting so big and she's so close to talking as clearly and as much as the rest of them.  Thankfully, she reminds sweet and happy to go with the flow.  Or at least not fight it.

Life is crazy around here.  With George going to two schools there's a lot of confusion and second guessing.  And if you know George, you know he does NOT do change (like his mother).  But give us a couple of weeks and it will be part of our routine.  All the same, please keep George in your prayers.  I know in my head we are doing the right thing, but my heart hasn't accepted it yet.  If George had told me yesterday that he didn't want to school ever again, I might have said ok.  But I fell much tougher today.  Well, it is about time to go pick up some kids from school.  Maybe I'll slap a taxi sign on my van.

New Floors

Good bye carpet and hello LVP.  Mike did most of the work himself with Patrick and I doing a fair bit of the painting along the way.

 

We started with the guest bedroom and we all took turns sleeping in there while Mike put down the floors at night.

The boys room.

The girls room.

 The living room.

All those floors were put down and ready to go within a week and a half.  The stairs too much longer.  Mike just needed a good block of time to do it and it kept escaping us.  Finally, I took the kids out, he sanded the floors, measured and cut the LVP, and was ready to go.  Then he sprained his ankle!  But he got to it a couple of days later and they look great!

There are still a few touches to be done but all in all, they look great.  I'm beyond thrilled to be rid of the nasty carpet.  Did I mention that I hate carpet?  Thank you Mike for all the hard work and the awesome floors.

Summer is Almost Over

It's hard to believe that next week that the kids will be back and school.  Lia, Mary and I won't know what to do!  But let's get to some pictures.  This first one is Pat with his friend Ellie, reunited for a week of Totus Tuus.

Here Lia and George were calling their trombone cousin to be born.  We learned later that night that she had been born a few hours before.  We've only seen pictures, but we're already in love with Olivia.

Becca and her friends made this lovely sidewalk art, inspired by the movie Tangled.  I'm sorry its off center but it was very bright out and I couldn't see what I was doing.

I took some pictures while I lay on the floor.

Mike decided it was time to hurt himself again.  This time it was his ankle falling off the freezer in the garage.  I'm just happy there wasn't a Mike shaped dent in the van.

Becca had to go back for a pulmonary function test last week. think it went well and we had some fun in the waiting area.  

Ain't she cute?

Him too.

As I said, we are gearing up for school starting next week.  George will be attending St. Pat's for religion first thing in the morning, then spend the rest of the day at Central where he can get the help he needs with reading.  He's not been too thrilled about the idea all summer but I think he's warmed up to it.  If he works hard, and everything clicks, he should be back full-time at St. Pat's in a year or two.