First day of school

My little guys started school today at "real" school. They were SO excited... seriously, last night was like Christmas Eve around here. Caleb ran right into his class this morning and gave his teacher a hug and waved good bye to me (SO thankful for the week of orientation that they had that got him comfortable with his class!) Elijah told me I didn't need to walk him to his class - he could go all by himself. (I did anyways.)

And this afternoon when Elijah got home and I asked if he made any friends, this was the conversation.
E: "James is my friend."
Me: "James, the boy who sits next to you?"
E: "Well, he doesn't sit next to me anymore. Mrs. Woolwine said it was best if we had different seats."
Me: "Were you two talking too much?"
E: "He doesn't talk too much but he listens a lot." :):):)

Guess who lost his first tooth?

He is SO excited. Now the dilemma is what the tooth fairy will bring....

Check one off the bucket list...

Got to go glass blowing with my mother-in-law a couple weeks back! SO much fun! We had gotten a Groupon back in January and the company was willing to postpone the expiration date so I could get back in the same hemisphere to play with hot, molten glass. :)

So, glass blowing is WAY labor intensive. It took about 15 minutes to create a piece (we got to make 3 pieces each) and by the end of each piece, I was totally exhausted. Our instructor was so good and patient with us though. He would give us the rod with a blob of melted glass and we would mix it in broken bits of colored glass....

Melt the glass bits into the blob, spin it and then blow it....

For this piece (a bowl) I spun the glass after blowing it and then flipped it over to create waves in the rim.

The finished product....

Was such a fun experience and thankful for the opportunity.