Now it Begins...

We made it through the first week of medical school! Whew! I can't believe how fast the week flew by! Alexis and Isaac are in the same class at school. It includes 6, 7 and 8 year old children. Kari is in a preschool aged group and enjoyed her first day of school EVER!! Today we found Emma has two more teeth that have poked through. Bottom left and top right lateral incisors (I looked up what they are called. I don't know teeth.) That puts her up to 6 teeth!

 Monday 1st day of school

Ready to leave our apartment

There is a good sized lizard that lives in those pallets. I've only seen its tail.

"First day of school! First day of school!" movie quote anyone??  (answer: Finding Nemo)

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday went by in a quick blur. We are trying to figure out what we want our routine to look like. School starts for everyone at 8am. The kids have lunch at noon and I go bring them food and eat with them. Mark joins us if he's able and then Kari is done for the day while the older two go back to school until 3.

Friday white coat ceremony

 This is Ben who got here 2 days after us with his wife and 3 kids from Utah. 

 So this is somebody important but I'm honestly not sure if it's the prime minister or the president of Dominica. They were both in attendance I believe. I was juggling kids and took a picture...  I'll have to do some research. :) 

The ceremony was held at the annex building that we walk by everyday. It's SO green here!

 I LOVE this man!!!!

 I had to throw in this hilarious picture... Maybe I'm a bad mom but Mark took the picture... hahaha. We couldn't find Kari so I started calling her name and a sad little face peeked around the corner of the building. I asked her what was wrong and why she was crying. She just pointed at the bird!! She felt trapped because this bird apparently showed up between us and scared her. It was pretty funny... I mean sad...

Saturday whale watching

It was relaxing to lay down on the net. It's crazy to look down and see the water. I'm so grateful none of us get sea sick!!

Selfie :)  What a beautiful island we live on!

Isaac and Kari had to go down to the bathroom. They were impressed there was a bathroom. You had to pump the toilet to flush it. 

Mark said there was a window down there. I had him take a picture. Haha!

When the whales were spotted this is what we saw.

The next 11 pictures are of the same whale. Scrolling through them is like watching a movie in slow motion

The smooth part of the water is the whale's "footprint". I thought it was pretty cool!

Just a few more whale pictures :)

Waiting for our ride to take us home...

I know this looks a bit scary... Mark is just out of the shot. She has great balance and is super crazy cute!!