Words of Wisdom from Jacob

Here are some pearls from Jacob:

"When I weigh 100 pounds, my stomach will be so big that it will blow up to the moon"

"When I get big, I'm going to jump fences. Little fences. Just in my shoes. Not in my socks. Socks would not be good. Can you jump that fence? Maybe if you had suction cups on your shoes you could jump that fence. Or springs on your shoes. But I think I'll jump little fences. In my shoes."

Soccer

We are a few weeks into soccer season for Allison. She seems to like it pretty well. Their team got assigned the brightest color...


Allison is #6. This was this past week's game. Brian took Allison to the game and said she got her foot on the ball quite a few times. Jacob and I actually went to walk a 5K (Jacob strollered) with a few friends and then Jacob did a kids fun run.

The game, I guess, went better than the first game where she picked a dandelion for the ref and managed to get tangled in the net. She did fall and twist her ankle at the end of the game this week, but it's better now. Tonight she was practicing her kicks in the front yard.

Here is her team. It's a mix of kindergarteners and 1st graders. The two girls in the back row on the left are in Allison's class. The girl sitting in front of Allison is our neighbor. Most of the girls are from either Allison's elementary school or the school from the next neighborhood over.

Back to School

We've gone back to school! Allison started back on Sept 2nd. I think she likes her teacher. Her class is big (30 students!). There were three small (18 students) kindergarten classes last year that they consolidated into two 1st grades (referendum didn't pass in Feb).

She was excited to be back with her friends, though. And so far, the reports coming home have been pretty good.



Jacob is excited to be back to school too. Fortunately, his friend Dominic is back two days a week, and he gets to see Matt in the afternoons. Menasha has 4-K, and so many of his friends are not at Children's Center this year. He did get to play with his much-missed friend Kaden over Labor Day weekend.