Blake lately

I'm going to try to catch up a little starting with Blake. 

School- she has adjusted very well to kindergarten. She loves her teacher and has many friends. It's no surprise that she behaves very well and I've heard from her teacher and PE teacher about her great attitude and behavior. 

At school one day having lunch with our favorite kindergartener!

Blake did cry a few more times in the first week of school... On Wednesday morning of that week she told me tearfully that she didn't think the weekend would ever come. She still prefers her "mama days" (what she's always called non-school days), but happily goes to school, too!

She earned her "shoe-tying badge" at school today. Blake has been determined to learn to tie shoes. I only had to show her a few times after she watched her teachers at school, and then she practiced and practiced on her own, until she got it! Completely self-motivated!

Soccer- the outdoor season has begun again for the fall, after being rained out 3 weekends in a row. Blake is becoming more and more confident all the time. She usually plays in the back (defender?!)

Other things- Blake loves to write words of lots and lots of letters and then ask you to read them. She thinks it's hysterical to hear the non-sense we try to sound out! 

Here is a picture of our family signed by the artist herself! She loves to draw pictures for me and her daddy, or write lists of things we need to do, or make little books. 

*I'll add more as I think of it...