Jen asked me to step in and write a guest post as we've been extremely busy, having just moved into our new house. The house is in good shape but it needs a bit of work to make it exactly the way we want it. That means painting, buying new furniture and even...buying a new cat! With all this brew-ha-ha its hard to find time for the little things.
This weekend is probably the first in awhile where we have some semblance of routine so I thought I would take a few minutes out of my day to fill you in on another recent monumental event: Margot's first day at her new school!
She goes to École Élémentaire Catholique Saint-François-D'Assise, which is a 5-minute walk away from our house. The close proximity of the school is one of the great things we love about this house and the plan is that I (dada) walk her to school half the time in the morning and Jen walk her the other half. Its a nice start to the day and much more enjoyable than when we were living at our old house and I would often leave before Margot woke up in the morning.
Margot's first day was emotional, which probably isn't surprising. It started out with some tears and angry words. Margot did not want to go.
But as we got closer to school her natural good cheer shone through. We got her laughing and by the time we entered the school yard she was curious to meet her teacher.
To her shock her teacher is a MAN! (She's used to women teachers). But she likes him already. He seems happy-go-lucky.
By the way, if you haven't guessed, Margot's school is French-only so I'm going to need to brush up on the langue de Molière. Margot also wears a uniform. At first I thought that was an advantage (no fuss in the morning) but Margot seems to have developed the knack of staining every shirt permanently after every day. It's going to be a long year!
(longer for that kid photo-bomb-yawning in the background - it's just the first day dude!)
