Last Day of Magic Circle Preschool

Arabella's teachers asked me to come into class on her last day.  It was so sweet and thoughtful of them to ask me to join in her last day even though it wasn't her special day.  It was the Thursday before Easter/Easter break so all of the kids were very excited.  Arabella was especially excited for me to come in and have fun with her and the class.  The kids had a blast finger painting with chocolate pudding...

Then we went to the gym and did a Easter egg crazy run.  All the kids went wild chasing after the Easter eggs and tried to get them back in the basket before the teachers could throw them all back out.  I loved hearing all the laughter from the kids!

After the gym, we went back to her classroom for a special treat and some dancing to the chicken dance song. 

At the end of class, everyone gave her a hug goodbye at the door.  It was the sweetest thing and made me cry.  She sure had some great friends at school, and she tells me on an almost daily basis that she misses her friends even though she has started a new preschool and has made some new friends. 

Her friend Dylan gave her a special going away present...an adorable stuffed deer...she has slept with it every single night since. 

When it was time to say goodbye to Madame Carmela and Mrs. Fitzgerald, it was tough.  Arabella was a bit sad and her teachers were upset as was I.  They have seen her grown these past 2 years and she loved going to school.  They taught her so much and encouraged her love of learning.  We are so lucky and thankful to have found such a great preschool for her and for her dedicated teachers. 

This was a tough post for me.  I am now crying.  These updates are going to take me awhile to do...

The Chaos of Moving

Our move from Montreal to Charlotte has not been the easiest.  For me it has been the hardest move.  I thought my first move from Connecticut to Ohio was hard - I left the place where I grew up and an amazing job - it took a while to adjust...but that move has nothing on this one.  I am not sure it has fully sunk in yet...

The movers were at our house in Montreal bright and early on a Tuesday morning.  I wasn't totally ready for them, but then again, who really is.  It takes no time at all for the place to become a sea of boxes and packing material.  It always amazes me how quick things get packed up.  It was so overwhelming to see everything going into boxes.  And even after 3 moves, I still feel unsettled when all your belongings are packed into a truck and they are now in someones else' hands.  We had a ton of boxes this time around because our things were supposed to go into storage.  When that happens every thing needed to be emptied - all the drawers in dressers, Arabella's toy bins, etc.  Fortunately, our things didn't go to storage, unfortunately, everything has had to be put back in it place...more work for me.  Before long, all the rooms in our house had boxes filling up the rooms.

After 2 days of packing, they finally started loading everything onto the truck.  I hate that part.  Seeing everything go onto the truck.  It was pretty hard to watch.  But in no time our house was empty and the truck was pulling away. 

We watched the truck pull away at the end of a long week.  You can see how tired we were in these pictures...UGH! (I can't believe I even put this picture on here!)

So away our things went, next stop Charlotte!

Prince Max

Arabella loves to dress up and one day she decided that Max had to be in on the action.  Like a good little brother, he went along with it...wonder how long that is going to last???

I Haven't Forgotten

As you can imagine, things have been pretty crazy the past 5 weeks.  Yes, I have a ton of blogging to do to catch up and I will...soon.  We have landed in North Carolina and I have been busy trying to get things in order around our new house and adjust to our new surroundings...which is going to take time...lots of time.  So stay tuned!!

Crazy Squirrel

We finally caught the squirrel who has been attacking the bird feeder in action!  It was crazy the way he climbed the house and was hanging on with his back legs while he ate!

Girls Night Out

Last night was a girls night out.  I joined 5 other moms from Arabella's class at school for dinner at Bistro Merlot.  A out of this world restaurant in DDO - I love the jalapeno bacon soup and I was so excited when I saw that they had Coppola Rosso on the wine menu!  We had so much fun, we closed the restaurant down!  Thanks Maria, Stacy, Erin, Caroline and Vivian for a great Saturday night!

Silly Girls

Arabella had a play date with Cristina on Friday afternoon.  They dressed up and were giving Carrie and I a fashion show and got pretty silly in the process...