August End

Addy continues to love Kindergarten and most nights she entertains our dinner table conversation whether its about the boy who picks his nose and eats it during rest time or about wanting to wear her purple cheetah shirt with silver sequins so she will look "cool" and the little boy she sits with on the bus will think she's cute.
Last week they had a Clifford Day. She came bounding in the front door in her floppy eared Clifford headband.


Jaidyn received a very special award this week. She was chosen to receive the very first Caring Kid "Cooperation" award from her class and was recognized in a morning assembly.

Receiving her Caring Kid dog tag necklace.


August Caring Kid Group


Nana made a surprise visit and enjoyed visiting the girls school.

The weekend was enjoyed at the lake getting to lounge around on floating rafts and watching the Boat Race Shootout.














Jaidyn took another run at riding the knee board and she has really gotten good. In fact she thinks she is so good that she has already been asking to move on the trying out the wakeboard. Lol!







Holding up the orange flag when a skier goes down is serious business!!





You might be a redneck if...

you use a pocket knife to cut off the tops of water bottles to be able to drink Pontoon Punch. It was a little rough around the edges but it worked! I bet next time we will remember plastic cups.

You might be a redneck if...

you use an empty peanut jar as your drink container.

In my opinion it's not Redneck, just resourceful!

Levi's First Day of Preschool

This afternoon, Levi had his first day of 3 year old preschool. He proudly carried his school bag on his shoulder and a gift for his teacher. After getting his name tag on, I almost thought I was going to get away without him crying and it wasn't until I gave him a hug and headed for the door that he realized I was leaving. I then heard the sad Levi cry...I just kept on walking as I knew it would be over within a few minutes after leaving.

Weekend

We are on to week two of school but not before we could enjoy some more "summer" activities over the weekend. To unwind from the busy first week of school we had friends over on Friday for pizza, popsicles and smores (these were actually for the kids but we indulged too). It's nice when we get together as each of our kids has a child their age to play with.

Yummy Oven Smores!


I'm sure our cul de sac looked like a major traffic jam with all the kids riding bikes and scooters.


And thanks to the guys we now have our internet connection secure and my Iphone software is updated to the current century. I hadn't updated it since I bought it almost 2 years ago. Who knew I could do so many fun things with my phone? I mapped yesterdays cycling ride and my run this morning. And there really is "An App for Everything"!! Agh, this tech stuff is way over my head and I have a feeling it just may keep getting worse. Things change so fast!


Lego Tornado...Levi and Alivia had a great time making the Lego mess, but it wasn't as much fun to pick up!




We decided they are already like a married couple...asleep and turned the opposite direction. :)

Saturday morning was just spent hanging out and then Wes volunteered to stay at home with Reid while the rest of us went and watched Spy Kids. Jaidyn and Addy were really excited to watch this movie and now think that they have been activated to be real Spy Kids. You should see the gear they have packed up in their little messenger bags and purses. Ha!



Levi was dancing to Beyonce's All The Single Ladies and was pulling up his shorts to look like a leotard.

He's gagging over the leotards they were wearing in the video.

After church on Sunday we used up the remainder of Addy's pool passes she received for her birthday. What a beautiful day to be at the pool and a great end to the weekend!







She is now running, jumping and diving off the diving board. And her form is pretty good...no more belly busters.



Don't let this grin fool you...


Reid has started to develop some really STRONG personality. I'm hoping it is just because he is teething. When he wants something, he hasn't been giving much of a warning and goes from happy to MAD within a matter of seconds. He usually has the TV remote or my phone within eye sight and really wants to get a hold of them. Neither of these I let him play with and it really makes him MAD. He is also really wanting to start moving around but won't stay on his belly long enough to give himself a chance.

With the girls at school it has really given me a chance to give more attention to just Levi. He's such a fun little guy!

First Day Of School

Addy was up on her own at 6:15 this morning! That is the earliest that she has been up on her own all summer. She was so excited about her first day of Kindergarten! There were no tears of sadness from having to leave her Mom all day (and not any from me either as I am excited for her too). It is amazing how in the last few months she has become so interested in writing words and practicing things in order to "be ready for Kindergarten" or at least that's what she says when she tells me when she wants to practice something. It is so refreshing to see Addy so concerned about being "ready" as she really hasn't shown much interest in it until the summer months. We walked Addy to her classroom and her teacher read The Kissing Hand before letting all the parents leave. So we gave her a kiss and she waved us out the door skipping back to her seat.


Jaidyn was looking forward to starting 1st grade today but she said she would rather be hanging out at home with me. I am not sure how she thinks cleaning, laundry and getting groceries would be more fun than school. I think she is still in summer mode...


Today was so quiet at the house with just the boys and I...the stillness was very strange as the past couple summer months have been filled with much noise as not only is our house occupied with our four but usually a couple of neighborhood kids also. Since Addy wasn't here for Levi to fight with and he didn't have to share any toys he had a very good day. I also let him talk me in to letting him have soda with his afternoon snack. :)

Levi loves his very own "All About Me" photo book. He is so proud of it! Here he is studying it...it cracks me up how serious he is when he looks through it.