September 2008

In our family, September means the beginning of the busy season. It's back to school, the start of the soccer seasons... Gary's girls and Maggie's team and time to shift into full speed after a nice, but too brief summer break.

Maggie started 4th grade this year and she loves school. She actually had been waiting for it to start since July. She's in class with some of her old friends and even spotted a new girl from the other soccer team her coach is in charge of that is new to the school. They were instant friends and two peas in a pod. Now if we can just convince them that they can't run alongside each other and giggle when they play against one another, we'll be fine!

Gary started his fifth year at the high school and coaching the girls team. He really loves his job and his coaching job too.

Molly hit a milestone this month. I mentioned to her daycare provider that I wanted to take her off the binky by her 2nd birthday. Two days later, the baby whisper had broke her of the binky at nap time and she never asked for it again. She is amazing. Now let's see if I can have the same will power to keep Molly off the binky when she's at home! (Update 11/08...I did!)