Trick or treating just starting!!

Rikki's school on NPR's Morning Edition Today

If you're interested in knowing more about Rikki's new school (as well as her cousin Rebecca's high school), here is a feature story from Morning Edition:  

BPC on NPR Today Black Pine Circle School's focus on Socratic Practice was featured today in Eric Westervelt's story "50 Great Teachers: Socrates, The Ancient World's Teaching Superstar" on Morning Edition. Click HERE to listen to the story. If you'd like to read the transcript and see photos, scroll down in the link above.

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At the grocery store

Rikki loves Caesar salad, so we are in the produce aisle and she just put some Caesars (aka romaine hearts) in our cart!

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So cute...

Rikki got some little candies at a birthday party yesterday. She came home today asking if she can eat her "starburts" ; - )

The other day I heard her telling our babysitter Amy that she thinks she's in love with our neighbor, Rigzin. Then another day she and Rigzin were jumping on the trampoline chanting to a different babysitter, Daniel, "Daniel's in love with Amy!" I decided to investigate Rikki's concept of being in love.

So I asked her about it, wondering if she's ever been in love with anyone. "Mostly just you," she said. Sweetly.

She's a purple bulldog!!

One of the traditions at Rikki's school is that they have eight "houses," such as Orange Tigers, Red Bears, Turquoise Turtles, and Rikki's very special Purple Bulldogs. Each house has kids from kindergarten through fifth grade, and siblings are assigned to the same house (perhaps to facilitate handing down clothes). Rikki was so excited to be assigned to the bulldogs along with our neighbor, Lea, who she has decided is her honorary sister.

Kind of reminds me when my friend Becky and I decided that, since her last name was Berman and people always asked if we were cousins, we wanted to become cousins. So her mom made a little ceremony in which we drank grape juice and ate some food - Melba toast perhaps - and declares ourselves cousins.

The good news is that, after practically needing to be dragged out the door for the first couple weeks of school, and clinging to me in the classroom, this morning Rikki was in a big rush to leave home. Then we were hanging out in her classroom and the minute the bell rang, she said, "Mom, you have to leave now, you know."

And she's off....

My baby's in kindergarten!!

(Sob sob)

Rikki and the jellies...:

At the Monterey aquarium