I'm Sweet like Sugar!

Jude Starts School/Corinne Goes to the Doc

It's official!  As of yesterday, Jude is a pre-schooler.  Ryan and I both took him to Columbia Baptist yesterday where he will be going to school this year two mornings per week.  We were all geared up and ready for the big event, camera in hand.  It turned out to be somewhat anticlimactic.  A group of 2 year olds and parents gathered outside the classroom awaiting the clock to hit 9, and then that was it.  The door opened, Jude walked into the classroom, having never met the teachers before, we said good-bye and that was that.  No tears, no anxious glances.  He was ready to begin!  When I picked him up yesterday he was a little sweatball from having just played on the playground.  The teacher said he had a great time (I still have no idea what they actually did for 3 hours!) and was well-behaved.  Her only comment was that at snack time after being given apples, he asked for graham crackers and continued to ask for them until class was over.  Hilarious!  To explain, the only "classroom type setting" Jude has ever been in is nursery at church and Parent's Morning Out last year--in both settings the snack is always graham crackers.  :)  Clearly, the apples threw him off a bit!  Have I mentioned before that Jude is a boy who really likes his routine?!  No curve balls, please.

While Jude was at pre-school, C and I stepped over to the doctor's office for her 9-month check up.  9 months!  Seriously, time flies.  She's doing just great.  Not much to report besides the fact that the doctor didn't even ask me about milestones--she could tell that she was way ahead of the game through watching her crawl around the exam room, pull up on chairs and cruise along the walls, babbling all the way.  She said we didn't even really need to have a conversation about it!  The biggest news (literally) is that Corinney has gained 5 pounds since her last check-up at 6 months, putting her in the 97th percentile for weight (and 94th for height).  That just means we have more of her to love!!