Ummm, still here

It really is appalling how rarely I am posting lately. I have been quite busy trying to get used to Alexa's school schedule and getting the house painted a bit, and my usual knitting and spinning and horseback riding and exercising. We took a trip at the beginning of the month up to Seattle for Jamie's 9th birthday. The cousins enjoyed playing together.

And swimming in the hotel pool. Sophia knows how to swim now!

Alexa loves the water so much. I took her for some rides on my back using my snorkel.

The first day of school!

Alexa went to the first day of kindergarden today. She was too excited to eat much breakfast, and she had to get up at 6:20 am, but she and Daddy were waiting on the front step at 7:15 for the bus. She gets to ride a big bus to school, and the bus driver who lives two doors down will bring her home.

She has been going to school on the bus for a couple of years now, so this is routine for her, but she was still very excited, although you can't tell from the photo so much.

So now that David doesn't have a job we are at home without Alexa for 5 hours every morning..kind of strange. (She only goes to school for 3 hours, but the bus ride to and from is kind of long.)

A whirlwind of a month

I don't really know how it happened, but a month went by without me updating the blog. I also have this character weakness that goes like this: things start piling up, and then I don't want to tackle them, because they have become so overwhelming that I don't know where to start, so I put it off, and they pile up further, and so on and so forth. I need to get back to the Flylady website and start reading about 15 minutes at a time again! Anyway, I will try to get a little bit caught up here. We ordered a trundle bed for Alexa from ebay, and various problems were encountered, and it didn't actually get here in an undamaged condition until two months after her birthday.

Then, we went to Hawaii. Alexa loves riding buses of all sort, so the shuttle bus to the airport from the parking lot was quite fun for her.

After more than five hours of flight time, we arrived in Kona, HI. Penny bought leis for us all. They smell so wonderful. I remember that smell from the last time I came to Hawaii about 15 years ago.

Hawaii in August was very hot and humid. The house we stayed in was beautiful, but not air-conditioned. Fortunately there was a pool, and Alexa figured out how to swim with her floaty. She never wanted to get out of the pool.

I thought this picture of Penny was so fun, I hope she doesn't mind me sharing.

We went to the volcano, and stopped at this restaurant on the way. It advertises itself as the southermost restaurant in the USA. They had wonderful food!

Alexa's cousin Christopher is 5 years old too, and a chatterbox, so they got on spectacularly.

Our last meal together, breakfast before flying out.