First Day of School

Emily has been back at school for three weeks now. As I may have mentioned, she is at a very small private school this year (rather than at the Montessori school). The school covers K-12, but the class sizes are what makes it small. In fact, Emily is one of only four students in her classroom.

So far, I think that Emily is very happy with her new environment. Her teacher is very nice and Emily seems to come home happy at the end of the day. Like Abbie, she is tired at night and is still getting used to having homework, but she is pretty good about getting it done right away.

The tricky thing about Emily these days is that she refuses to smile in any photo. If she feels a smile coming on then she tries to hide it, as you can see in the photo above, which was from her first day of class. So, I am working on being very sneaky about how I photograph her. Otherwise, she puts on a very serious face, which makes her look like she is miserable in every picture.

During the first full week of school, Emily auditioned for the fall musical. They are doing a revue this year in which they sing and perform to songs from a variety of musicals, including The Little Mermaid, Annie, and Little Shop of Horrors. She will be in a handful of the pieces and her rehearsals start next week. I think she is excited because this morning I heard her belting out "Under the Sea" as she got ready for school.

Emily's other new extracurricular activity is ballet on Saturday mornings. She has been begging me to sign her up for a ballet class for a very long time and I finally found a studio that offers the perfect class day/time for our schedule and it is even very close to our house, so getting her there has been really easy. Again, she would never pose for a photo, but here is one that I was able to get as she was leaving class. Just after I snapped it, she realized what I was doing and ran towards me to see if she could quickly delete it from my phone. Ha! No such luck! :)