Where's The Other Sock?: A lot of Firsts!

This week was a lot of Firsts!!! We went to New York City, Daddy started a new job, mommy started the fall semester, and Alex started Kindergarten.

Although Alex has ridden the train before, he didn't really remember. He was very excited to ride and talked about it all week as we counted down to Saturday! When we got there he kept looking down the track to see if the train had come...

Then, he was glued to the window for the ENTIRE train ride.

When we got to NYC we had a reunion with Aunt Emmy!

We took a pitstop at Starbucks, and Aunt Emmy taught Alex a new card game - Go Fish!

We had a great picnic in Central Park. Maya loved looking around at all there was to see.

For my birthday, Alex and my parents got me a FANTASTIC new camera. It is a digital SLR camera and I have wanted one for about 5 years now! We took the above pictures with that camera and have been having a blast playing with the settings and learning how to use it.

Also new this week: Alex started kindergarten. It all seemed surreal; but I found that I wasn't as "sad" as I thought that I would be. Alex has gone to preschool for a lot of his life and has been ready for "big kid" school for awhile now. We've been talking about kindergarten a lot, and reading "Mrs. Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten" - that's one of our favorites!

On Tuesday, 9/6 (which was also my birthday), Alex, Daddy, Maya and I headed off to Seven Generations, an environmental Charter School in Emmaus. Unfortunately, it was a very rainy day; so rainy, in fact, that school ended up being closed for the second and third days! Tomorrow is Friday, and I am hoping that school opens back up. There are a lot of floods around the area - it has been an unprecedented amount of rain! But, Alex had a great FIRST day at least!