Fun times!

I have enjoyed this week with Daddy at the Air Show and Nana at farm festivals.

Smithsonian trip

I had a fun trip to the Smithsonian museum with daddy!   I wish I were a superhero who could fly in outer space!

School is awesome!

Dexter has loved his first few days at school.  Everything from the bus, to his teacher, to walking in the big hallways, school library and eating in the cafeteria is awesome!  His love of super heroes and police men has also crossed over to safety patrols.  He really likes how helpful and nice the 5th graders has been to him getting to the correct class on the 1st day and getting on the buses.

Dexter is all signed up for speech therapy classes again after a one year break and will start back up next week meeting once a week with a speech pathologist.  He has a rotating special class between Music, Art, PE and Library.  Monday was music, today was PE and he learned jumping jacks, sit-ups and push-ups!   Tomorrow he will meet the Art teacher, Thursday back to PE and Friday is library.

School is starting!

Today was meet the teacher day at Glenkirk Elementary.  To say I was excited was an understatement!  I loved seeing everything at the big school.  I went to the library, the cafeteria, the gym, the office and my classroom.

I got a school t-shirt, set up my desk and turned in all the classroom supplies we had to buy.   One kid from Montessori school is in my class and one kid from my neighborhood is in my class - so I already know 2 of the 24 kids!

 Glenkirk Golden Knights!

My desk at school

Glenkirk Elementary

Mrs. Robinson my 1st grade teacher!

Summer school is over!

Friday we had a party at Bull Run Regional Park - they have an awesome pool and playground area.  All my friends from school were there, including my best friends - Edward, Miles and Lily.  I love my Montessori school so much - I am glad I still get to go there after school for a few hours so I can see my friends and teachers.  We are all huddled together here because a giant bucket of water is about to fall on us!

 Today, Daddy and I went to Lowe's to build Thor's Chariot.  I did a great job following the directions, hammering the nails and putting on the stickers :)

Looking at boats

Today Daddy and I went to look at boats with Gram.  It was a super fun trip and I can't wait until we actually own one of these boats!

When I got home I finished my LEGO boat.  This boat has so many cool decorations, it was very fun to build.

School shopping!

Very excited here to have our first back to school shopping trip!  We got a list from school of all the things we needed to bring to 1st grade and got everything and then some!  We actually doubled the order and the extras are going to a school supply fundraiser at Dan's work. 

Farmer Dexter

Today we harvested the apples and peaches from our 3 fruit trees in the backyard.  We had about 10 apples and 30 peaches.  The peaches are a bit early and hard but the apples were ready and tasted great!  We then walked down to the river an left the peaches there for the deer that frequent our forest.

Cousin week

I spent the last 3 weeks with my cousins Cole and Luke.  Most of that time was in Ohio but the past 4 days were in Virginia.   We went to Lincoln's cottage, National Shrine, Ford's theater, and the National Zoo.  We did rest one day where we just played at home and went to the swimming pool .  It was a great 3 weeks and hopefully I can do it again next summer.   Now I need to relax for a day before I go to 4 weeks of summer camp at my Montessori school.

Nothing happening

For the past 2 weeks Dexter has been in Ohio playing with his cousins and adding to the craziness at the Johnston house.  Tomorrow he comes home, cousins in tow, and we spend the rest of the week together seeing sights in DC before it is back to school.   

While Dexter has been gone, we have gone through the house and put up some things for sale and donated some kids clothes/toys to co-workers.  One of the things we are selling is a really old point and shoot camera.  Before selling it we uploaded some pictures, so here is a journey back in time to when I was a chubby 6 month old baby!

Fishing & Boating

Yesterday Daddy and I took the day off from school and work and went boating around Burke Lake.  I would also say we went fishing, but we only caught 1 fish!   We also rode a train and ate ice cream!  It was the best day with Daddy ever!

Fun with Nana!

This past week Nana came to stay with me.  We had so much fun going to swim camp every day, building Legos and having my end of school party at school!  She got to see my Kindergarten graduation - which featured a musical "Jack and the Beanstalk", a piano recital, a yoga session, an art display and a Spanish lesson.   I had so much fun with my Nana, I think this summer will be a blast and I can't wait to start at the big school for 1st Grade.

Ragnar!

This is mommy's 3rd Ragnar relay race  --- but Daddy and my first!  
Last weekend we all flew out to Colorado to go camping and running around Snowmass, CO (outside Aspen) with our good friends the McCalls.
It was so much fun to go camping and watch the runners.
Each team member ran 3.7 miles, 4 miles and 6.7 miles - at 8000 feet elevation and wicked climbs up the mountains for each leg of the race.  It took 25.5 hours to complete to the 115 mile race

Happy Memorial Day

We have had a long and lazy weekend here in Virginia.   There has been lots of Lego building, bike riding and book reading.  The weather is perfect outside.  I hope everyone had a nice long weekend.

International Day!

Every year my school, Montessori of Gainesville, has an International Day celebration.  All the classes present songs, dances and facts about their country. My class had South Korea.

My class and I getting ready to sing

Edward and I got to wear real South Korean costumes!

Next to our information board

My teachers - Ms. Freda, Ms. Kyou-Bin and Ms. Shala

South Korea is in Asia.  The national flower of South Korea is the Rose of Sharon.  The national sport of South Korea is Taekwondo.  The flag of South Korea is white with a red and blue circle in the middle and a black trigam in each corner.  The flag represents peace, balance and harmony.