First Day of School

First Day of 1st Grade

First Day of 2nd Year of Preschool

I can't believe how big my babies are getting!  Mason started 1st Grade on August 26th.  This year is fun for us because I get to work at Mason's school as a Teacher's Aide.  I mostly help in the Kindergarten class, but for about an hour a day I get to help in Mason's classroom.  It's also nice because the school lets me bring Archie with me whenever he isn't in preschool.  He fits right in with the Kindergarteners and he loves feeling like a big kid!  Archie started preschool on September 3rd.  He goes two days a week for a few hours and this year he's part of the Butterfly Class, which is the group of 4-year-olds. 

Both of the boys love school!  Mason is reading at a 4th grade level and is also excelling in math.  Archie knows all of his letters and numbers and is learning to write all of them.  I'm excited to see how much more they can learn this year!

The Sacramento Zoo

 We have a zoo membership and had planned on taking the kids all summer long, but it didn't work out like that.  I was finally able to take them on their last day of summer vacation.  We spent a couple of hours looking at all the animals, playing on the playground, and they even got to feed a giraffe!

Archie is making a scary face because he wanted to be a "scary spider".

He also wanted to be a scary zoologist.

This was the best $6 ever spent!  How cool to be able to feed a giraffe!  The boys loved it.

Mason was afraid to turn away from the giraffe.  He thought it was going to take a bite out of him!

My sweet boys were protecting each other.

Zebras!

It's hard to tell, but there is an orangutan under that white sheet.  He was playing peek-a-boo with the boys.

Nevada County Fair

Petting the horses

A few weeks ago we went to the Nevada County Fair.  The boys had fun watching the cowboy show, riding the ferris wheel, playing carnival games, petting the animals, and they even got to see a baby chick coming out of its egg!  It was a fun night.

Petting the miniature donkeys.

Silly flower and bee.

They were impressed by this giant rabbit!

Feeding the cows

There was even a ball pit!  They spent a good half hour in there.

Find Mason!

Archie really wanted to ride the ferris wheel, so Max was the lucky one who got to take him on it.

While Archie and Max were on the ferris wheel, I took Mason to play some carnival games.  He ended up winning 5 goldfish!