A day in September

Can you believe it? It's already the end of September! Is this school thing over yet? I mean, I like playing and recess, and having fun with my friend B. but this "following directions and doing what I am told to do", not too much fun. But my teacher seems as stubborn as I am and he mainly wins the arguments. I seem to be doing a lot of reflecting time on the chair. Although my friend B. and I , we think that going on the chair is fun. There are 5 trouble makers in my class; that's what the teacher said to the Ps. And I am one of them.
Right now I like week-ends better and I also sleep better in my bed at nap time and thus, I am in a better mood.
This week-end we had one nice day and after swimming in the morning I grabbed my bike for a ride and some fun at the playground. Maman will take her bike next time too since she had to run after me most of the way.
At the pool, I am with two older girls who are towering over me. I try to impress them but they seem to think I am mainly goofy. Oh, I finally rolled over on my own in the pool so I am getting closer to moving up to the next level.
Ok, Maman is tired of typing and apparently tired of getting too little sleep for the past month so she is making me sign off.
Enjoy the video!

C'est la rentrée!

September 8, 2010 was my first day of school. Boy, was I tired by the end of the day! Let's see for the recap:
- 6:30am, Papa woke me up and helped me get dressed
- 6:40am, Papa held me down while Maman put drops in my ears. See, two days prior ( during the labor day week-end, I was at the doctor and was diagnosed with an outer ear infection and I really, really do NOT like the drops).
- 7:10am, after breakfast Maman and I drove to the school
- 7:35am, Maman dropped me in the early arrival room with teachers Nadia and Rosario
- 8:15am, I am escorted to my classroom with my teachers Gilles and Edith.
- 11:45am, I had lunch with teachers Edith and Roxanne.
- 12:30pm to 2:00pm, nap time. I got maybe an hour of sleep.
- 3:15pm, end of class; I am escorted to after school care with teachers Jennifer and Rosa.
Seven, yes, seven adults in 9 hours.
Rinse and repeat for the next 10 months of this school year.
If I am lucky, Maman comes and gets me before 5:00pm. But I think I will not get lucky too often.
Those are looooooooooooong days. But I am happy to go, I have fun and I am already making friends. Jacob and I played ghosts with our blankets during nap time and it did not go too well with our teacher Gilles. The guy has no humor or what?

More school stories later... I need a good nap now. It's Saturday and I just came back from swimming. I missed it during the Summer and was a happy fish today!
Enjoy the cool, oh so cool September weather,
Noah

Summer is ending

It looks like from now on, postings on my blog are going to go way down. See, as of last Monday, Maman is back at work and she seems to be running in circles ever since.

As for me, I spent the week with friends and I am getting ready to begin preschool in 5 more days. I mainly like the idea that I have my own kid size back pack to bring all my important things over there. Raccoon will of course make the trip to school every day with me. I was told that I will have to share two adults with 17 other kids. Not sure how's that going to work because when I will need them to read me a story, the other ones will have to wait, right?

We got to enjoy the Ocean when we went to Seaside to get Papa who had just finished the Hood to Coast race. His team finished 19 over all, out of over 1000 teams. Way to go Papa!

So, here it is, snapshots from the end of Summer on the beach. Breathe...Relax...