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Lia's First Day of School

 Lia joined Jack and I at Willowbrook this past week for her first week of 3 year old preschool.  She has the same teacher, Miss Noelia, that Jack had last year.  She loves coming to school with me in the mornings, and getting to play in my classroom.  She is shedding a few tears off and on throughout her day, but I'm sure we won't be seeing that much longer as she adjusts to this new routine!

Also including some photos from Labor Day, and the big Iowa game yesterday!  Go Hawks!!

Miss Lia--all ready to go!  She chose to pose like this.
Proud big brother


Princess backpack!
Such a big girl!  Hanging up her bag!  
Miss Noelia helping her through the morning routine.

She found her name!
The three of us before school started.  




We went to Yellow Banks Park on Labor Day and enjoyed some time outdoors as a family.  This pond made for a beautiful back drop.  Also enjoyed walking some trails by the Des Moines River and playing at a few different play grounds.
Yellow Banks
 As if starting pre school wasn't enough for last week, it was also Lia's first week of dance classes!  She is taking a 3 year old combo class in Altoona (tap, ballet, and tumbling).  She was all smiles!
My cute little ballerina.

Morgan and the girls were in town this last weekend, so we got to have a little play date with them.  It also happened to be the Iowa/Iowa State game, so we were all in our Hawkeye gear.
Lia and Brynn
My cute little Hawkeye fans.
There was even lots of black/gold and red/gold in my classroom on Friday!

 Things otherwise are going well here!  Jack is loving kindergarten, and I'm off to a great start in the fourth grade.  It's hard to believe we've been in school almost a month already!  Ryan is still working weekends at Doll, but we're hoping very soon that his days will be switched to M-F.

Lia did suffer from some pretty bad joint pain on Friday morning.  She was limping, and we had to get out the rice packs for her knees before school.  I was pretty bummed by that, and will bring it up to Dr. Hong when we go back to the U of I for her next appt.

Hope all is well with all of you!

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