Bring on School

Beau started 1st grade a week ago and I couldn't help thinking, "Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life". It's full days from here on out kid. One of the school districts in Salt Lake offers a pretty unique program of language immersion. Kids start when they are in first grade and spend half their day in an immersion program for another language - no English is spoken for half the day. The district currently offers Spanish, French, and Chinese immersion.

We thought this was too good of an opportunity to pass up. After looking into the Spanish program and talking to Beau and one of his friends who was enrolled in the Chinese immersion last year we decided to put him in the Chinese program. It is amazing what the kid has picked up in just one week. On Saturday we were sitting at the table and he brought in the piece of paper in the photo. He told me he had just written it in his room, but honestly I didn't believe that he already knew how to write Chinese characters. I was shocked when I saw him do it again. This was a little reminiscent of his first written sentence in English, although I like the content here a bit more. At the top of the page is his name and then below are the numbers 1 to 10. It's pretty amazing how kids at this age can soak up new things.

Chef 2.0

Pierce has turned into our little chef. He loves to pull on the apron and help out in the kitchen. He's also going through this phase where the moment he gets home from anywhere he will immediately change into pajamas. Each evening as dinner is getting made Pierce will drag a dining room chair into the kitchen to help out in any way he can - especially if he can clean the mixer spoons.