Finally Friday!

Drew had a great first week of preschool. He made a new friend named Dylan. When Drew came home the first day he said, "I have a friend named Dylan and he's allergic to WHEAT!" I'm sure he does not know what that means because he made it sound exciting. I met Dylan's Mom yesterday and Dylan is autistic. The class Drew is in is an integrated class. I think Drew was happy to have a break from school today even though he loves school so far. Three days in a row was a bit much for the first week. We will adjust. It was hard getting Joey to school today. I think she is in need of a weekend too!

Not much planned for this weekend. That is fine with me!!!

1st day of Preschool 2010

1st day of preschool
locker

off to school

Joey Anna's 1st day of Kindergarten

Joey Anna's 1st day of Kindergarten

Drew had his first day of the last year of preschool today. He came home talking a mile a minute. He loves it! He had a hard time getting out of bed this morning and seems tired this afternoon, but school was a hit. His "girlfriend" Brynn is in his class again. He has 2 other little female classmates from last year in his class.
He wants to go to Broadway Pizza tonight to celebrate. Too bad their food isn't very good. He only likes it because it has the model train that goes around the restaurant.

Joey Anna started Kindergarten last week. She seems to be enjoying it too.

2nd Annual Duluth Trip

1st visit to Gooseberry Falls
Daddy and Drew on a train ride

Watching a ship go under the lift bridge

Family bike ride

Playing on the pier

Drew waited a year to go to Duluth again. I think it is his current favorite place in the world! We went in August, but looking at our blog I see I have REALLY gotten behind.

We spent a couple hours at the Alpine Coaster that opened in July. Drew was initially worried he wouldn't like it. We ended up going down it 5 times each. It was a blast and we would highly recommend it.

We saw 4 or 5 ships go under the bridge. That and the train museum were Drew's favorite parts. We spent a couple hours at the train and Children's museum and then went on a train ride. We drove up to Gooseberry falls which we have not done before. Next time we are going to plan to spend more time there so we can do more exploring.

We did some of the same things as last year because Drew's plan was to do mostly the same trip. We rode the family bicycle, ate at Timberlodge and Red Lobster and spent some time in the hotel pool. We went to Betty's Pies and on our way there Daddy and Mommy were talking about what kind of pie they wanted. Drew said he was going to have a big glass of ice water. Where did he come from anyway?!?

We enjoyed hanging out as a family. We spent the rest of Daddy's week off at the State Fair, playing at the park and truck pulling!