Serrano Love: 1st Grade, Cool Cat, Cute Kourtney pics, and black eyes....

Let's see..... since July.....

AUGUST:

Matthew started school. 1st GRADE! I can't believe it. I will probably say it every year multiple times but I can't believe how fast time flies! It seems like just yesterday we had this tiny baby unsure of everything we were doing and now we have this big, independent 6 year old!

August was mostly just getting back into the school routine. We met Matthew's teacher, Mrs. Plein, and we love her! She is the nicest person and truly cares about her kids. Matthew was the cool cat of the week and he LOVED that. Being the star of the class for the whole week. Kid was in heaven. He loves school! Every weekend he asks if he has school the next day and when I say no he gets all sad. I think its great!

SEPTEMBER:

There were a lot of Kourtney and mommy dates with Matthew being in school. She seems to enjoy the special attention because she really fights for it when Matthew is around. They really fight each other for it ESPECIALLY if daddy is around. So we spent time at the mall and rode the carousel, went shopping, you know the girl stuff.

I got my hair permed and it was a disaster!When will I learn to just leave my hair alone???
I thought it would be great to get loose curls and just get out of the shower and go but I think there was miscommunication between me and the lady that did the perm because I ended up with much tighter curls than I wanted. Then only half the perm took so she re-did that half and then the other half went flat but she didn't want to re-roll that half because it would ruin the integrity of my hair so now I'm stuck with uneven, frizzy, uncontrollable hair and I HATE IT.
There is nothing I can do except wait for it to grow out which is going to take forever because my hair doesn't grow!!!!!! Pony tails for months for me.......

We bought the kids their Halloween costumes. Ya in September... We've learned if you want a costume for a reasonable price you have to get them early otherwise they are all gone and when you do find one they are triple the price!
Matthew is going to be Batman and Kourtney is going to Elsa from Frozen.

Matthew was also the class dojo winner. It's a phone app that connects me to the teacher. She gives points for being on task or being quiet. It's positive reinforcement. Then whoever has the most points at the end of the week gets the class dojo trophy the following week and candy. We had a rough beginning with this but once he realized he gets rewarded for good behavior we haven't had any red/bad points (crosses fingers that I didn't just jinx it). Daddy told him if he won the trophy we would take him to buy a toy so we took him and he picked out an iron man lego set. He was so proud and so are we. He's been doing so great in school! Berto also started working from home at the end of this month and he is loving it, I'm loving it, and so are the kids! Kourtney is by far the most excited! She gets to spend all this extra time with daddy!

OCTOBER to present:

Here we are already in October. This year seems to have flown by. We took the kids mini golfing this past weekend. They had a ton of fun! I always have enjoyed mini golf. Other than being attacked by mosquitoes. Friday, Matthew got smacked into at school right under his eye and ended up with a black eye. It didn't dawn on me until Sunday night that picture day was Tuesday and he was going to have a black eye for that!!! Oh well. It'll be a fun story to tell. He's just a target for that kind of stuff. I just don't want people to think I beat him!