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Back to School

Wyatt had an amazing KA teacher last year.- A guy who set the bar so high, I thought for sure no other teacher could surpass it. Can you imagine the colossal bummer that would be? I mean Wyatt's got a lot of teachers left in his educational career. Luckily, though not surprisingly, his teacher is great- and for the most part I think Wyatt really enjoys school....Other than his occasional remarks that it's just too long (Yikes!...He's in for a treat later in life- hmm?)
It's fun to see your kid get excited about learning. Not to mention this will be a huge year of progress for him - recognition of sounds, letters, math concepts and reading. I've even caught him calling school his "work" ...and rightly so, because he IS working. He has started his Mandarin curriculum and in one week has already retained more and speaks in better tone than I have achieved in the past 2 years.  His after - school activities are gymnastics, swimming and Lego's/robotics. Soccer starts in November. The kid has a more advanced social life than I do and I'm pretty sure I've put that pathetic statement out there before. He is now strutting around with the confidence of a young man 3x his age and unfortunately he is speaking like one as well. ( I will fill in under Wyattisms).

In short, he's growing up and he is a piece of work. A piece of work that we created by the way... Sometimes scary; most times simultaneously unnerving while kinda cool..but the jury's still out. Despite his sarcastic nature,( whaaaat?) and despite the fact that he's in Kindergarten now, he's still my sweet love, who is terrified of natural disasters....including wind and the smell of rain. He is the boy who says he's too old to hold my hand because he's 5, but reaches for me when he forgets and he is still the boy who wants to cuddle and lay his  head on my chest in the morning when we're not screaming at each other to hurry up because the bus is on its way. Ahhhhhh yes. Welcome back! Look for more awesome Wyatt adventures on my blog to the right. His teacher is amazing and has set up a blog that she updates regularly with pictures and curriculum.

Wyatt at orientation

Wyatt's seat!

Wyatt at the lunch board

Calendar time!!

Reading Circle

You know just being cool

First real day of school. Happy. Pre-bus when he freaked.

Wyatt's bus. I don't have the heart to show the post pics of Wyatt. OR me. All is well now though. 

Prague or Praha for those of you more cultured.....

I'm a junkie. It's official. I AM A TRAVEL JUNKIE. How am I going to come down from this high?   

Is it possible??? I mean at some point this will end... I guess I just have to just enjoy the ride while I'm on it. I wanted to preface that before I dove into Prague. Prague my friends? Is beautiful. The hotel we were at, the food we ate, the sights we took in, the history- all just breathtaking. For those who may (but more for those who probably do not know), my sister and her husband moved there in August to take an intensive class to become certified teachers of English. They will then most likely settle themselves over there for a while. My parents, to kill the proverbial 2 birds with one stone (?), flew over, stayed in the same hotel as us .. (actually in the same hallway) and we proceeded to do the unthinkable...vacation together.  I know what you're thinking, but this is the older, wiser, more mature Aly, and it was actually fabulous. Pre-trip, I was having paranoid flashbacks of family vacations from adolescence, but it was all good. We took in the sites, ate a lot of gelato, drank a lot of Pilsner, walked ALOT, and really just enjoyed one another's company. I know right???? 

How mature are we???

What did we see?*** PRAGUE RECAP*** My feet told me we had seen pretty much everything. My eyes unfortunately told me otherwise. Prague has a fascinating history. While we were only there one week, the sheer amount cathedrals alone to take in would have kept us there 2 weeks. We went to the Jewish quarter, which had a fascinating, though sorrowful history; the palace and the zoo each took up a day alone and then there were the towers, cobblestone streets, the outdoor flea markets and ALL the shops. My mom and I went on a ghost tour one night which went through town and underground.- slightly creepy, VERY cool. Will and I got to have a date night at a jazz restaurant where we had amazing food and basked in child- free lovers gazes. OHHHH and the architecture was breathtaking. Everywhere you turned there was a picture to be taken. Crazy. 
To keep Wyatt on board with the fast paced travel of the week he thankfully became OCD about collecting badges from each of the sites we went to(Charles bridge)( astronomical tower) etc. By the end of the trip he was officially obsessed AND pulling us all on board his crazy train as well. When one of the sites had two different badges to be bought, I don't want to even tell you how excited I got. Ah well. Wyatt got free rides on sore shoulders for nearly the entire week and bonded with his grandparents, which was pretty special to watch. 
Say it with me.....AWESOMENESS.

Oh and I hear that Prague is pretty amazing at Christmas. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

                              

                                               Spidey

chillaxin' looking at the ceiling to your left

                              

                                                           Awesome Cathedral

Date at the Ice Bar

Jewish cemetary

The Dynamic Duo

  

                          Ghost Tour

                                          

                                                               Weird, but oddly cool. This is actually a tombstone...