A little update....

I hope that everyone has been enjoying their summer! Ours is drawing to an end. I have have had three daycare kids this summer so it has been eventful and lively around here. Zachary starts kindergarten in about three weeks and let me tell you I don't know where the time has gone! We are putting him in the dodea school here because he really enjoyed sure start and wanted to move up with his friends. I am praying that he has a good teacher and I have also been praying for good classmates. There were some kids last year who you could label the trouble maker but Zachary is so good he wasn't affected too much by their behavior. I am praying that this year we won't have any incidents. I have enrolled Zoe into the sure start program but it is like head start in the states and we are considered the higher ranking for this so if there aren't many E4's and E5's then she will get a spot. I really loved the teacher last year Miss Flake and I am praying that if she does get a spot that Miss Flake will be her teacher also. The good thing about doing daycare is I also got to know the other sure start teacher and would feel comfortable if she had her also. Zaylee will be home with me this year working through the hooked on phonics preschool books and games. Basically she'll learn a different letter each week and hopefully by the end of this school year she'll be able to look at a letter and identify it. As of October 1st I won't have anymore daycare kids. It was a tough decision because financially we could have used the extra money but I am just plain ol burnt out from it. Plus I would like to be able to take Zaylee off base in the middle of the week to do some sight seeing if I so choose to. I can't drive the kids anywhere here so I am pretty much stuck at the house or the park here on the support site. Brian will be leaving at the end of this month for an exercise. He should only be gone a month. Not this year coming up but next year he'll be up for his E7 so that is pretty exciting! Big news for us is that we celebrate our 6th anniversary this month on the 21st! He'll be here for it so I am hoping to get a babysitter so we can at least grab some dinner and a movie. We definitely don't get enough alone time with the kids around. I hope that my usual sitter gets back from the states soon so that way we can plan a weekly date night. How was everyone else's summer?

Ciao!!!