Back to School!

After about 87 days of summer vacation including baseball camp, soccer camps, soccer tournaments, goals, winners medals, surfing, sunshine, swimming in the lakes, play dates, trips to Red Robin, trips to the cinema, a visit to Mt Rainier, a holiday in San Diego and Vancouver Island, bears, whales and eagles, ice-creams and pizzas it was time to go back to school for a rest!

Both boys had got the teachers they wanted. Harry was going into fifth grade with Mrs Cooley and Toby into first grade with Mrs Malek. We had to go into school early on the first day (and every day that first week) because Harry was on school patrol which meant helping the parents and children get across the roads safely.

Here is Toby waiting in line for school to start, just before the thunderstorms and rain began:

Here is the first grade boy settling down at his table for his first exercise.

And this is Harry helping people cross the road!

So there we go, Harry is starting his third full year in school in the US and Toby his second – hopefully they are as good as they have been in the first few!