With Alice starting school, September was a time of big transitions. Alice had a hard time adjusting to going to school all day. She was used to 2 1/2 hours of preschool, during which there were absolutely no demands placed on her. Her teacher's first comment to me was that she takes are really long time to get things done and has a hard time transitioning quickly. Well that makes sense, because no one had ever asked her to do anything quickly. At the last conference in March, he said he felt like it took her several months to adjust and that she often just sat there staring at the other kids. And when she got home, that was a "whole different talkshow!" She was a exhausted and difficult to deal with, which made me so sad because that was the only part of the day I got to be with her. Needless to say, there weren't many structured activities in the afternoon.
Over the weekends there was some rollerblading and bike-riding...
And a few craft projects..
Painting with corn syrup...
Painting Rocks...
Making apples with colored rice...
We tried out our new apple-peeler-corer. Brad was not excited about a new kitchen item, but as you can see in the picture, he enjoyed it just as much as the kids...
We also made our own apple tree (you can see it in the background of several of the pictures).
After peeling all those apples, you have to do something with them, so we made apple muffins (my Aunt Harriet's recipe)...
and apple crisp...
And that was September!
Making apples with colored rice...
and apple crisp...
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