Goodness Gracious, where did September go?!?!

It seems, as Maya gets older, the less time I have.  So, Maya has been back to school for one month, and it is going great. Although, first grade in France is very intense!!!!  She has had to memorize two poems the first two weeks.   She has home work every night, where she needs to learn to memorize words, because at the end of the week her teacher will dictate the words out loud and she will need to be able to write them!  She also has math, but thank goodness that this is easy in our household.  The two hardest problem for me is:
1. I can't pronounce the words correctly
2. The cursive penmanship is nothing like ours. On top of it, you have to see the size that they need to write!! No word of lie, it not even a quarter of an inch high!!!!  There are more important things to me than learning to write in cursive at such a young age.

Anyway, school is pretty intense, but Maya has made 2 very good friends and many other friends within the school.  Her new best friends are Anika and Josephine.

Maya always the Fashionista:

Maya has also started many new activities. This year she has ice skating on Monday, where she has her good friend Joyhana in her class again!  They have a strict, but very good teacher this year.

On Tuesday Maya has gymnastics, and silly me forgot to grab a shot from her first day back.  Her school chum Anika joined the same class.  Maya enjoys it, but often gets into trouble with her friend.  I will grab a shot of the girls the next class.

On Wednesday and Thursday, she has started dance class.  She was happy to find a girl that she did skating with last year in her class and seems to really enjoy it. Her is my little bun head:

The last few weekends, we have has crazy beautiful weather, so we headed into the mountains to go swimming :)  and take a couple of rides on the slides:

Also, took a short walk to a waterfall:

She has also been invited to quite a few birthday parties, so mommy was kept busy making birthday presents and being a taxi driver.  On top of helping out with the school PTA and being a member.  So, the blog has suffered a bit.