Blink

Hey look, I blinked and the summer is gone.  The older kids had a fantastic time at camp.  We took our annual two-week summer trip to Michigan, spending time with both of our families and seeing friends in Indiana and Ohio on the way.

And now it's time for school again.  Katherine was not entirely resigned to starting school again:



Alec, on the other hand was entirely ready to rock kindergarten:



The dress code was changed this year from navy blue polo and khaki bottoms to any color collared shirt and long pants or skirt.*  It is, however, entirely silent on the subject of monkey hats.


*which I didn't find out about until after I ordered 15 navy blue polo shirts and 6 pairs of khaki pants.  Sigh.  Fortunately, you can return website orders from Target to the store, so I returned 75 percent of them and bought some other colors, which makes Katherine very very happy.