Spring 2017

Alice has had a nice spring this year.  She has sleep-overs nearly every week-end, and play-dates most weeks.  She has a nice varied group of friends.  She continues to enjoy her music lessons with Ms. Tracy, and we've been spending hours at a time outside swinging from the tree, usually having conversations about anything and everything.  She's pushing to be more independent and usually walks home after school now.  She has also been practicing on her bike and has a small but growing range of freedom for exploring and practicing.

Alice still maintains her fairly recent appreciation of Olive Garden and prefers it to any other restaurant, so we go there more frequently than in the past.  Although its P. Terry burgers if she gets anything she wants... plus the chocolate shake of course.

Also... don't want to ever forget the budding chemistry interest.  Alice, like many others, is really loving playing with slime this spring.  She has been looking up and experimenting with numerous online recipes.  She keeps most of the results in old yogurt containers in a stack in the play room with creative and interesting names.

Also... she just finished her second after school coding club session (daddy was proud, certificate for office wall!, but Alice mostly goes for the social hang-out I think, whatever coding activities they do she seems to do easily).

Its really been a wonderful year being a parental unit.  Good times.

Bubbles

I just had to take a screen shot today of Alice at school chasing bubbles.

Looks like alot of fun!

Alice TV

Althought its not ALL Alice ALL the Time, its pretty darn great.  As mentioned in the top 5 reasons we picked Alice's new school, our new favorite past time is watching Alice play and sleep at school on the web cam.  Here is a sampling of Alice at school doing various things.

Alice Sleeping

Alice sleeping 1/2 off the mat

Alice Sliding

Alice reading a book

I don't know what she's doing, but look at how cute she is ;-)

I've been told I'm stalking my daughter, but until she's old enough to KNOW that I'm stalking her...I'm tuning in daily (along with other family members I know)

The Bluebonnet School

Alice started her new school this week. 

We decided on putting her in The Bluebonnet School of Cedar Park.  http://www.bluebonnetschool.com/index.html

There are several reasons we chose this school over others - including Montessori Schools.
1.  Each classroom has a degeed lead teacher and a teachers assistant.
2. The maximum teacher/student ratio is 2/10 at all times
3. Internet classroom viewing available free to parents and family.
4. They provide lunch (this was a big negative in the Montessori Schools)
5. It is close to home - not much further away than her previous school....so convenient!

Additional coolness factors were:
6. They have their own splash park for summer water fun twice a week (summer time only of course).
7. They have a windproof storm room to withstand strong winds and tornadoes.
8. The building is fully sprinklered (you'd be surprised, but this is not required by code!)
9. Quarterly parent conferences.
10. Spanish and Music class included in the curiculum.

From viewing the internet video, it is apparent that Alice is having fun at school. 
It makes us feel happy and confident that she is being well cared for when she cannot be with us ;-)

Alice Painting At School

Alice's new preschool has web camera access! I've really enjoyed my first day of being able to see her at school. This is a picture of her painting a picture with her teacher before lunch :-)