Back to school!

It was Sienna's first day back at school. She's now in Grade 1! She was totally spoilt by Nonna, who came to visit all the way from Greenvale (almost 1 hour's drive) and went with us to drop her off.
Sienna was very excited about her new teacher, whom she described as "awesome". That was comforting.

Also, today Sienna discovered her first ever wobbly tooth! She is very, VERY excited (and i think relieved that she's catching up to her toothless friends )

And what was Michael doing while her sis was at school? Catching up on some zzzz - as well as Collie, the color-changing dog (He was almost all black when he was born, and now his coat is a gorgeous silver-grey).
Well, now that the power has gone out for the second time tonight and we had to cancel our movie night (doing this on battery power), better go and make this night one to remember. In El Salvador every time we had a black out (almost one a month), we used to grab the candles, sit around the table, and listen to scary folk-stories from the mouth of Mama Nila. I don't think i'll do that tonight - i'm too much of a scaredy cat. PLUS, i really don't want to accompany my kids to the loo forever.