the first of the last

today she started her last year of preschool.  i'm not sure if i already posted about this (and i am too lazy to go back through my posts to double check) but we decided to hold her back for one more year.  she was assessed by the boys' school back in march and although she is ahead in many areas, they suggested that we keep her in preschool one more year.  it would give her time to grow, physically and socially.  they also pointed out that many parents are holding their children back which means that if we put her in kindergarten this year there would be kids in her class that are almost a year and a half older than her.  but what really sealed the deal was when bobby said that if she started kindergarten now she would graduate from high school at 17.  umm, college at 17?  no thanks.

so another year at preschool it is.  and i'm happy.  and i think she's happy.  and i hope she doesn't get bored.  we are spending some time working on reading, she has picked it up fast, and writing.  she loves doing "homework" with the boys. and she is spending some time just having fun.  we are so excited that she will be in teacher leah's class.  we have been at this preschool for 9 years! and we have never had teacher leah. although this preschool is not focused on academics, we have heard that leah challenges kids who can do more and i think sofia will like that.  so it does make it new in some way.

off she goes.  and she spent the morning playing with these dress up dolls and making a new friend.

she was super excited that the boys got to take her to school and get to pick her up.  they have the day off of school today.  so we will pick her up at noon and then go to panda express for lunch.  tomorrow will be the first day that all three of them will be in school at the same time.  so that leaves me with a few hours to get stuff done.

and one of the things on the list is to capture some photos of fall.  i can't believe how quickly the weather has changed.  i am not totally counting out the warm weather but i also am not ready for this cool weather.  i don't have pants for the boys' yet.  i figured they would be wearing shorts until at least november.

the other thing on my list is planning her 5th birthday.  yesterday we went shopping for an outfit for school and then we went to the disney store to "check out" birthday gifts.  so i have a good list going.  i am so looking forward to october.