Back to School

As a good momma, I am required (probably by law now...) to update everyone on the latest back to school incident. It just so happens that this is Marshmallow's first year in public school where she gets to attend kindergarten! But to top it all off, I get to student teach this semester which is fun, but it complicates life quite a bit. (But, just for fun, I'm including a picture we made in inservice just before school started.)

Shortly before the beginning of school we got to go to meet the teacher night where we met the kids teachers. Here is Turtle with his teacher

and Marshmallow with hers.

The morning school started, I stayed home long enough to take them to their class and drop them off in person. They were excited to go and here they are just before we left.

Unfortunately, that night we had to have a double funeral for the brownies' pet gerbils. Marshmallow's died the night before school started and Turtles died that night after they got home from school. Here is their little grave in our backyard, complete with popsicle stick tombstones.

Here are the kids after the funeral. Marshmallow was distraught...

Turtle was trying (only slightly successfully) to be strong and not cry.

Here are Fluffy and Cinnamon snuggling together (they were sisters) for a nap. They were wonderful pets and the brownies will miss them a lot. (So will I!)