Kinder buddies

We currently have 3 kids at one school, which is just down the street from us, and it's awesome. A few fun coincidences have worked out for us this year:

1) Emily and Elinor's classes are both piloting a new science curriculum, and are the only two classrooms in the entire district doing this.

2) Caleb and Elinor's classes have been matched up for 2nd grade - kinder buddies, so Caleb and Elinor are often paired up to work on projects together.

Today was the 100th day of school, so 2nd grade buddies came in to work on a craft with the kids. Elinor was thrilled to be able to work with Caleb.

From Caleb's teacher

From El's teacher

I love that the kids are so excited to work together, especially because I know it could go the other way too.

Family Picture

I've been updating the kids' photo albums and realized that I miss having a record of all the milestones and things we've been up to. I'm going to work on starting this up again in 2017. For now though, here's my favorite photo from a family photo session at Stanford in December:

Good old Jacob, always keeping things interesting for us.