August

In August we began establishing our new patterns with Atom going to West Orange Montessori School regularly every weekday morning. Scott drops him off on the way to work in the morning at 8:15 and I pick him up at noon. The school is less than 10 minutes away from our house, so it's really very convenient. It took him about a week to get adjusted to being dropped off without getting upset, but even at that stage he seemed happy and excited when I would come to get him and he clearly was enjoying being there in spite of the separation anxiety. I'm very happy that we started him there over the 3 week summer session when there are fewer kids and more opportunities to bond with the teachers and get lots of individual attention. About 2 weeks in, Atom got sick and had to skip several days of school, which was a shame, since the summer session was so short to begin with. During the last week of August, before the next school year started, we had a couple really fun playdates with Tina and Gwyn. One day we went to Monkey Joe's and the next one was at a gymnastics place in Oviedo where they had open floor play time for toddlers. Atom had a blast at both of those places and he loves playing with Gwyn! I hope we can find a way to continue having playdates with them, even though it's harder to coordinate with Atom being in school now. I don't have as many pictures of those playdates as I'd like, since my camera finally broke after 3+ years of abuse. I've been using the camera on my phone since then, but the pictures are not great, especially indoors. 

Trillian has started pulling herself up on furniture this month and she can actually walk using the baby walker now, which she loves! She's very curious and wants to explore everything these days and of course put everything in her mouth!

On the 1st, I was informed by the tenant in unit B of our rental house that he wants to leave when his lease is up at the end of October and that he'd like to leave sooner if that's possible. It is not possible, as far as I'm concerned, unless I'm able to find someone else to rent it before then, which I said I would try to do. So begins the annoying and time consuming process of finding another tenant once again... It was nice to have so much advance warning this time to find someone, but at the same time, it's much harder to show and rent the unit when it's occupied. Here's hoping we get it rented soon and get another year of not having go through this again.

Summer in Florida means lots and lots of mowing!

Walking on the baby walker

Happy baby

Getting creative without a camera and using my computer to take pictures.

Scott and Greg practice guitar, Trillian watches.

Atom and Gwyn have fun at the splash pad

Atom shares his puzzles with Gwyn 

Atom has a routine of getting a cookie and a balloon whenever we go to the grocery store. He's very good at asking for them himself! This time they got 2 balloons!

This was at the Dr. Phillips splash pad. They both had lot's of fun in the water

An impressive storm on the way back home. We had lots of thunderstorms this month.

I always use these kid carts instead of the normal ones when I see them available They like sitting next to each other!

Atom's school had a yard beautification day, where the parents came to help spread new mulch on the playground, do weeding, trimming and other yardwork. Everyone had fun, but we were very tired afterwards!

Trillian was in the backpack most of the time, but what she really wanted was to crawl around and try to eat the mulch!

Got you!

Atom and Gwyn play at Monkey Joe's

Trillian really wants to follow her big brother!

Atom flies a kite for the first time! Thank you Matt, Mara and Vincent for the nice present!