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@Adira: We have moved past the PJ Mask obsession, thankfully. I am not a huge fan of it but it isn't the worse show.

We are having a Moana party at the house on Sat. She wanted it at the house and watch the movie party. We told her that then she can only invite 10 kids. She was fine with it. She is so excited. She is going to freak out when Moana comes to her party. She has no clue we hired one to come. She is going to teach the kids to hula dance, limbo, do tatoos, and something else. She will be there an hour. So I don't think we will watch the movie but hopefully that will be ok. I made heart of te fiti's out of clay and they are going to put then on necklaces and then can put beads on them. Then each kid gets a treasure box to paint. I also painted the coconut cups like the kakamora's. She wanted grass skirts and lei's for each kid too. So this party at home didn't save us any money that is for sure. But I will say everything looks really cute and the basement looks like Hawaii threw up on it, but she is so dang excited, it is 100% worth it.

We got her a kids camera and vanity for her gift. Cause she needs a place to do her make up. Lord she is growing too fast.

@Smurfette: That sounds like such a fun party! Having Moana there will be a blast.

@travellingbee: poor guy. That is crummy that they didn't reschedule or refund you anything.

@travellingbee: oh no that is terrible. Hope you found a solution

@Smurfette: sounds like an awesome party!

@ALV91711: YAY!!!! Ridiculously excited for you. I am sure Isaac will love the news! Will the news be a birthday present for him?

@Adira: that would be a great annual trip to do!

@Smurfette: Thanks! We are excited.

Isaac is so excited to be 5 this week! This weekend he said he was done being 4.

How's your veryone doing? Feels like we are in eternal winter here. We got good news today, Isaac got a spot in the French immersion catholic school that we really wanted him to go to. He's not too sure about this but I think he will do great. The nice thing about this too is that we will be able to stay with the same daycare as the school bus goes to it. If he went to our designated public school, which we also liked, we'd have to find a new daycare.

@Adira: Swim lessons will be fun! Isaac has one week of bowling left and then we aren't going to do any activities until the fall again. Since he will only be in kinder 4 half days I'm hoping to get him into something during the week to keep us busy. Although I'm sure a newborn will keep us busy enough!!

@ALV91711: we have an early onset of summer here with temperatures above 25C. So thankful for that.

We had B‘s birthday party last weekend. It was a Ninjago party and they had to do ninja training tasks and in the end they were all declared to be ninjas and received their diplomas and take home t-shirts. B didn’t know about the details either so it was a surprise for him too.

B started swimming lessons last week and I hope he’ll be able to swim by summer.

@ALV91711: Congratulations! So happy for you! I'm sure Isaac will be a wonderful and helpful big bro at this age! Will you find out the gender?

I registered Pete for kindergarten two weeks ago. He's pretty excited although I know he'll be nervous on the first day. He's going to the local public school which is just grades K-1, so I feel a little better sending him on the bus. I figure the first graders can't be too mean yet, right?

He's obsessed with sports right now. He practices soccer and basketball for at least one hour a day, by himself, in all weather. He's actually getting quite good! He joined the town soccer team this spring and loves it. He also loves watching sports and prefers it to all other television. Neither my husband nor I are competitive or athletes so we're not sure where he gets it from.

He is newly enrolled in swim lessons that start on Sunday. He loves jumping in the pool, going under, and is desperate to learn to swim but nervous about taking lessons with an instructor. I think he'll learn quickly as long as he's brave enough to actually get in the pool without me.

I am really loving this age! I'm excited for his transition to kindergarten but also heartbroken that his baby/preschool years are almost over. I'm a teacher and I feel like elementary school flies by! I wish these kids could slow down.

It's a So excited for Isaac to be getting a little brother. He is so excited too! He started crying when we found out today.

Him and DH were supposed to come to the u/s bit Isaac was really sick (turns out he has an ear infection). So I got them to put it in a card in an envelope so we could all find out together.

@ALV91711: I missed this! Congrats! Brothers are fun!
@Smurfette: Exciting! We transitioned to the elementary school this year for Pre-K so it doesn't feel the same. Starting Kinder is just going to the next grade. But I am sad that this year has gone by so fast!

@Smurfette: It's crazy how fast kindergarten is coming up.

@travellingbee: Thanks, I'm excited for another boy.

@QueensBee: Poor guy. Hopefully the start of kindergarten goes better.

@Adira: After reading your other thread about leaving daycare when X starts kinder does he not still have to go to daycare before/after school? Or will he be going somewhere else for that?

@Adira: that makes sense. I'm happy that Isaac got into a school that the bus goes to his daycare. I would be sad to have to find somewhere new for him to go when he goes back after my mat leave.

@Adira: That is great that they are doing that. One less thing to figure out.

I still can't believe these kids are going to kindergarten!

@Adira: Crazy! Our school does orientation the first week of school and brings the kids in small groups, then they start the second week.

@Adira: Hope it went good today. Kind of nice they had something for just the parents so you could get the info without a bunch of crazy kids around.

@Adira: we just got an email today about the start of the school year. Parent orientation is the first week of school. They do a staggered start the first week. We also got the supply list, which you can order for about $26.