Monday was a busy day for us. There was an awards assembly at the kids’ school in the morning. My pictures didn’t turn out that great, but Maggie was called up twice for the school’s reading program and Luke was called up once for a character award.

Then Annie and I went to the library for story time. Annie loves the songs and dancing and is hit or miss with the stories. She spends a good chunk of time pretending to sleep – which was fitting with this week’s hibernation theme. Every time we leave, she makes me take her photo in front of this beaver.

When the older kids got home, I took pictures of Maggie and Luke with their awards. Each month the school focuses on a specific character trait. One student from each class, that exemplifies that trait, is picked to received the award. This month’s trait was “caring” and that describes our Luke perfectly. He has such a big heart.

Maggie hit the first big milestone in the school’s reading program. She received certificate and a pin for reading 500 books and another certificate for hitting the 550 book mark.

Then Maggie and I went to her dance class. It’s parent observation week so I got to watch.

Maggie’s class is an hour long and the first half of the class is ballet and the second half focuses on tap.

It was a lot of fun and Maggie did so well listening to her teacher and following directions.