The Murray Family: 08/01/2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Sleepover! Amelia is having a "sleepover" in Connor's bed!

And it did not last very long! I had to put Amelia in her bed!
Funny that they did pretty good this summer while traveling and having to share sleeping space, so I thought it might work…we won't try this again for a while! But it was supposed to be a reward for Amelia still doing a good job with the potty. Not a good idea apparently! Connor was really tired too so he didn't have the patience tonight. He called out to me twice saying, "this is going to be a long night!" And after the second alert…I pulled Amelia out!

Who says mermaids can't sword fight !

Friday, August 29, 2014

Minecrafting with friends...I have no clue about it but they love it!

Busy afternoon here...

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Amelia doing her homework...

Open house at school...

We went to Connor's school last night to visit his classroom and teacher. Last year, we had a really disappointing year at school. Connor was in a multiage classroom (2nd and 3rd graders) and it could have been great. However, the teacher was not up to the task and challenges of multiage. And remember, this was also our first experience with "public" school as Connor attended Catholic school in Hawaii and Rhode Island. Needless to say, we were not impressed with the Department of Defense school last year based on Connor's classroom experience. When I found out that Connor was assigned to Mr. LaGrave for 3rd grade, my heart sank. I had heard mixed reviews about him but the consistent negative I heard was that he piles on the homework. So Connor comes home with homework on the first day...it wasn't too bad. Connor comes out the 2nd day and is angry that he has 4 pages of homework.
We work through it, and it really wasn't too bad either.

At open house last night, I sat in Mr. LaGraves class and listened to his presentation. I have decided that I like Mr. LaGrave and while he may give a lot of homework, he specifically addressed it and said the homework is not supposed to be more than 30-45 minutes and if it is more... He wants parents to communicate to him so he can modify and adjust the homework accordingly. Connor even has his first spelling test this Friday...this is a little thing but huge compared to last year...Connor didn't get his first spelling words until November last year. And spelling tests were supposed to be weekly but were never consistent. I am looking forward to a teacher that is organized and consistent...and I feel pretty good that we have that with Mr. LaGrave. So here's to a much better school year than last year!

After school fun yesterday

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

It's fun when your car won't start...glad I found an Army wife who knew how to use jumper cables!

Queen Elsa is performing on the icy stairs!

Amelia's new Elsa dress…she earned it today as we are officially potty trained and no more pull ups or diapers!

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Video : a short clip from the Frozen sing a long at Disney! So much fun!!!

Dancing with the rainbow wand from cousin Janice!

Video: the whole video is too big to post ... But it was very entertaining!

Monday, August 25, 2014

First day of 3rd grade!

Connor did great sleeping last night…he went to bed at 8pm and slept through until 6:45am…so he woke up happy and ready for school! I was worried about the jet lag but it's really worse for me, the kids are doing great! It was 47 degrees today…a bit chilly for the first day of school in August!!!