School Update and Recent Portraits

Jessica's been in school for a full week now, and it's going pretty well. She still has some anxiety about the end-of-the-day procedures, and I think she cries sometimes during the day, but there are also a lot of things she's very excited about. Like her new friends, Alanni and Hannah, and a couple of other girls too. She even has good things to say about school lunch (sometimes, anyway).

The day before school started last week, I took a whole mess of pictures of the girls and a couple of myself, too. Here are some of the best of them:

(Note the purple bubble wrap, or "poppers" as she calls it. It's one of Elyse's hobbies.)