29 days

monday brought our first piano lesson at johnna's new house. it's right on the water and beautiful. piano lessons just got that much better.

more monsters pics from mrs. g.

1st grade monsters!

and monsters, ray girls version. laney, frankie, and addie. and laney's is upside down on purpose.

sleeping babies series.

2 kids got ahold of my phone.

and going back. lanes scratched her feet on daddy's beard while we watched conference. that's a good dad right there!

and bubble bath fun.

also:

*1st grade curriculum night. i can't say enough good things about the 1st grade team. they collaborate well and care about our kids. they also mentioned that we'd been at school for 27 days (2 days ago)

*elizabeth and i met up to distribute the canvas to each classroom. i'm getting to know the upper grade teachers now, super helpful now that addie is somehow "upper grades."

*tuesday was chicfila spirit night  and also mrs. ramsey had asked if i could go to the planning meeting for next years school calendar. so divide and conquer! matt stayed to volunteer at chicfila and i headed to the meeting, which sounded awful but was actually really informative and good. i recommended year round school. :)

*i texted johnna in the morning to see if she'd be up for a late night movie. we were able to convince carolee and darlaina to come along too. we saw mastermind which was super silly but a true story where a lot of the silly aspects were surprisingly true.

*today i picked katie up from the airport. i had forgotten that i told laura i'd take her, and had already made other plans. i had already arranged for chris to watch delaney and take her to school, so i was pretty quickly about to change things around and make it work. run, run, run. 

*today was also national walk to school day, and i missed out on the festivities which included gifts, posters (addie made an adorable one that said "how's my walking? 1-800-wal-ksaf," which she came up with all by herself). the mayor was there and it was a good time and i was sad to miss it.

the rest of life is moving along like a strong, steady stream. i feel like i often get knocked under. sometimes it picks me up and carries me. sometimes i float along like a nice lazy river, and sometimes i'm stubborn and try to dig in while everything swirls around me. no matter what i do, it's always moving. i've been trying to climb aboard a raft lately, but it's slippery. i think i'm on sometimes, but then off i go. good thing i've got lots of pool noodles and i'm a good swimmer. i love the adventure and the water too, so it's all good. 

and now to bed i go, before i elaborate on my river analogy any longer. i've got more too. think huge pink flamingo floatie. good night.