What!? School is starting?

Another school year is beginning next week. The kids are no longer kids. Jake and Syd are both taller than Courtney and I and Jake is starting high school. Syd is going into 8th and Kiley is starting kinder.

Kiley is super excited with a little nervousness mixed in. Syd won't say but I know she's excited about the social aspects of school. Jake is starting high school and I think I'm more excited than he is. When I asked him about it he said that he's curious about how he'll stack up. Not really understanding that statement I asked what he meant. He said he wonders how he'll stack up against the other guys when it comes to girls. Ha!!

So it begins.....

The first day is August 26, 2014. 

Summer 2014 - Gateway Leadership summer celebration on the lake

Dance

I'm with Kiley at dance class. The second day this week. She's doing three days a week this season. So happy she likes it that much!! When we asked her about it before signing her up, she asked for a day to think about it. Funny I don't remember considering an activity that carefully at age 5. Cutie pie.

She of course decided she liked it enough to try out for Vision, which is the dance team at dancers workshop where she learns. I don't think she'll compete this year but it excited me that she's that excited. 

So, back to where i started. Today while starting ballet/tap class, while the teacher was getting things set up, she was looking in the mirror going through positions on the bar. I don't know them [the position names] and probably should. But it was obviously ballet.

It made me smile to see her do that completely on her own. I think she really likes it. :)

Day 1, jazz/hip hop, 2014 - Dancers Workshop