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I can’t believe Reese is 2 years old! His birthday was on a Wednesday so we just had cake at home and went to the park.  On Friday we went to dinner with Katie and her family (including his bff Parker) and they gave Reese a car with a race track.  On Saturday I had planned on celebrating his birthday by taking him to a farm in a nearby town with the Adcox’s and Cook’s to see the animals, but it happened to be closed for vacation.  Then I thought we could take the kids on a donkey ride near Lake Aydat, but when we arrived that was closed too!  We wound up taking the kids to the indoor playground and the kids had a great time, so it worked out in the end.  We are so blessed to have our sweet boy!

This year Makenna started what would be K4 in the US.  Here it is called moyenne section and the class has children ages 4-5 years old.  In Makenna’s school (like other schools in France) many of the classes are mixed with a lower grade or higher grade class, and her class is mixed with children in petite section (ages 3-4).  Most classes have about 28 children and have a teacher and a teacher’s aid.  Both Makenna’s teacher and the teacher’s aid are named Sophie 🙂 Makenna was happy that 8 of the children from her class last year are in the same class as her this year.

We are both looking forward to this school year with the friends she has already made and despite my struggle with speaking French I now know many of the parents, some of whom I talk to and get together with.  I’m so happy we chose to send Makenna to the local public school as it has been such a great experience so far and has made us branch out from the expat community a little bit.