Happy Easter

The kids woke up to Easter baskets filled with goodies and eggs stashed all over the house this morning. A few of the eggs were only found after some guidance to their general direction, but overall I think the kids had a good time this morning. Baskets gave way to brunch and brunch gave way to an Easter egg hunt at our local coffee shop. The pictures really tell it like it was - an absloute blast! We loved having a business so close by that was willing to put up with all the neighborhood kids
((((Thank you Java Train! *see their menu*))))

Java Train Easter Egg Hunt

This past week was spring break for the kids. I still had class (and my first final in medical terminology) and Panod still had to work, so we played tag a lot this week. We did manage to go to the Conservatory where the kids got to go on a flower hunt with the pictures of the flowers in hand. And there was a lot of swimming at the YWCA. Taylor is such a fish at swimming, it really doesn't matter to her whether she's in the deep end or the shallow end - just as long as she's under water. And Ian got brave enough to swim around the shallow end of the pool with me as long as he had his life jacket on.

Spring Flower Show

Conferences went very well for both Taylor and Ian. Taylor has done a significant amount of growth on the social side of things, and Ian is really coming along with his writing and reading skills. I'll try to get some of their work up in the next week or so.

The week before spring break, I was able to join Ian at his school for Peace Day. It is considered to be a field trip day that is done at the school. Each classroom has a presentation related to peace, and the children all get into groups that then go to as many classroom presentations as they can. I think our group got to do some T'ai Chi in one classroom, we learned about rainbows in another classroom, and then we listened to a story in the library and all of the kids drew on a large piece of paper after the story. I think the children that I was with walked away with some understanding of what peace is - probably more than than they had understood before that morning.

Peace Day