Some of you are probably saying, "Corbett???" Where in the heck is Corbett? Well, its out in the gorge, near Multnomah Falls. It may sound crazy but the main reason to move out there is that they have amazing schools. The high school has been one of the top in nation for the last few years. The middle school is also well recognized and has been named as a "School to Watch". They opened a charter school a few years ago due to funding issues and have managed to remain as well respected as before. The charter school and the public school is all together in the same building. It sounds weird, but they make it work and they make it work well. For us, with our jobs and wanting to stay in this area because we love Portland, our choices if we want Ashlyn to get a great education is Corbett or private school. I'd prefer not to have to pay for private school! We pay enough for daycare as it is! Well, hopefully it works out the way we want it to. We never planned to stay in our house as long as we've been here, sometimes you just have to adapt!
We're taking Ashlyn to see the Magic School Bus play this weekend. I'm looking forward to it, she loved the last play we took her to, Pinkalicious. She sat still for over an hour, completely enthralled! One of her favorite songs and books has always been the Wheels on the Bus. So I'm hoping she love this too.
The next couple of weekends we'll be busy at wrestling tournaments. This next weekend will be District at my old high school and the weekend after is state here in Portland. We'll have a few of my cousins staying with us for state. It'll be a lot of hours sitting on a bench in a gym but we both enjoy it!
Ashlyn had her birthday and she is so proud of being THREE! She had two parties, one at Grandma G's and one at Grammy and Grandpa's. She had a lot of fun and loves cake and ice cream so she loved being spoiled with two parties!! She loves to tell everyone how old she is now and how she's a big girl. And she is a big girl! She is using the potty so well now. She hasn't had an accident at school in a few weeks. She still needs a diaper at nap and bedtime but its often dry when she wakes up. She has been visiting the next class up at school quite a bit. Probably by this summer she'll be a salmon :)
Here's some pictures from the last couple of weeks:
rocking my headband
playing in the first snow
catching snow flakes on my tongue....it was cold!
I'm THREE!!!
unwrapping my presents at Grandma K's
she gave me a pillow and blankets for my dolls
my birthday outfit
birthday picture with Grandma K
birthday cake that Mommy made
my cool frog card from Papa and Grandma G.
It croaked the "Happy Birthday" song! I loved it!!
listening to the frog card
holding Paisley Marie. She's almost as big as me!
my birthday cake our friend Dawn made. Elmo is all sugar
and I've been eating him one body part at a time for the last couple of weeks!
Blowing out my candle
eating my cake and ice cream cone...it was so yummy!!