Life Is Beautiful.

Preschool started today.

We decided to home school Ian for preschool

in a co-op with another family.

So these are his first-day-of-school pictures.

It was an absolute blast.

Do you see how happy Ian and Ada are to be starting school?

Here they are doing their self-portraits for the time capsule.

(said time capsule to be opened on the last day of school in June)

Ian concentrated hard on his drawing.

...so did Ada

...and Alice, too.

So far, we're enjoying this home school experiment.

We're doing a kindergarten curriculum,

and I think we're going to meet a lot of success with it.

Ian loves having "home preschool," and he's so excited to learn.

Here are a few of the things we're putting in his time capsule:

(the idea is that they'll complete the exact same activity at the end of the school year

and we'll have a visual representation of their improvement.)

Caption to Self Portrait:

"I was standing on the porch and I thought the sun was behind the clouds

and I was worried about bricks and squishy rocks"

"My Favorite Things"

Favorite Food: Apples

Favorite Toy: Thomas

Favorite Book: The book I made up myself

Favorite Color: Blue, Red, and Green

Favorite Movie: Cars

Favorite Quality About Myself: My Mouth

We also had the kids write all of their capital and lowercase letters...

this is just one of the pages.

I think he's a genius.

But that's just me.

And Joe. =)