back in the school groove

this past monday was ashford's first day of preschool! he is going to the same preschool program he went to last year at the community center next door to azalea's school. last year he went 3 mornings/wk from 9-12:30 and this year he is going 5 mornings/wk. i debated whether or not to do 5, but they took away the 4 day option, so i felt like 5 was a better stepping stone to kindergarten than 3. i've also upped my work hours to closer to 10hrs/wk, so it is easier for me to have that morning time every day to do my work and then be able to concentrate on him (and azalea) in the afternoons. there are lots of new (kid) faces at his school. his teachers are the same, so that's nice. he was so excited to go every day last week and i'm so happy because last year that wasn't always the case :) here is the obligatory first day photo: 

in the afternoons we had some play dates, went to the library, hung out at home, etc. we're getting into our fall groove now. we also learned that we will be getting occasional bags of produce from ashford's preschool. it's a partnership between the city of seattle and some local washington farms. pretty cool! 

wednesday night azalea had her first swim lesson of a new session at ballard pool. i forgot to take a picture. oops! on thursday morning i watched my friend casey's daughter julie while casey had an appointment. my kids were at school, so it was just me and her. we had lots of fun together. i forgot how cute 2 year olds are :) 

we had no plans going into the weekend. friday night we hung out at home. saturday morning we decided to take the kids to the pacific science center. we have a membership and thatcher and azalea hadn't been in a while. the kids enjoyed it, as always. we drove back to our neighborhood and went to 8oz burger co for lunch! it had been a while since we went there and it was delicious and indulgent (i got a burger with bacon and cinnamon spiced peanut butter on it). i mean, hello!

 i was full for the rest of the day! we hung out at home, got groceries, played some board games. we also watched homeward bound with the kids. we are showing them all the 90s non-animated movies we watched growing up. they've watched honey i shrunk the kids, little rascals, hook, and now homeward bound. it's really fun re-watching these movies i haven't seen in many years. 

sunday morning we hung out at home. then after lunch thatcher met up with with his coworker sloan and i took the kids to playdate seattle. we were there for under 30 minutes wour some friends from azalea's school walked in. so that was a fun surprise! the kids all ran around together and i got to hang out and chat with julie and ali. we ended up staying for 3 hours! 

sweaty kiddos

we hung out at home the rest of the night. thatcher grilled dinner for us and the kids played some video games. 

now onto a new week!