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School has officially begun! Isaac is glad to get back into the routine of going to Dana's everyday. He loves the other kids. I picked him up one day this week and I could hear a stampede as she opened the door (it's really only 4 kids). Isaac was trying to run with the other 3. He got knocked down by them and had a funny irritated look on his face when I saw him. He's keeping up; helping with clean up and now answering our questions, which is really cute. I'll ask him, "How was your Dana today?" and he'll answer, "Nana," which means Dana. (Not to be confused with "Na-na," with slightly different intonation which means banana, his favorite fruit!) He's starting to attempt to answer by saying something jibberish to almost everything we ask.
With teaching, I've almost completed all of my fall testing and I've selected the 7 students I will be working with. Tomorrow is a paperwork day. Slowly, I will start lessons with kids this week. I'm excited. There will, as always, be a few challenges, but that keeps me on my toes.
Small group begins again on the 12th. We are happily re-joining the group we "birthed" from several years ago. We are studying "The Power of a Praying Parent." We went with the group to pizza on Friday without children, and I'm truly looking forward to reconnecting with some young parents and families.
Life is good!