It's A Beautiful Day

I hope and pray this zest for school continues! We were ready in record time this morning, happy to be up and moving, and excited to be headed to school!
It probably helped everyone's spirits that the weather is beautiful today!

Pumpkin goes to K!!!

Yesterday was C's 2nd day of 2nd grade and AP's first day of kindergarten!!!!!

Several people asked me if I was crying because my baby was starting school. There were no tears here. If you know AP well, then you know that she sooo wants to be a big kid. I am excited for her. I can tell she is proud of herself and feels grown up :)

Our commute to school lasts approximately one minute. Just enough time to make a few silly faces :)

First we dropped C off with the big kids...
then we walked AP in. We are allowed to walk the kindergartners in on their first 2 days.

She found her cubby and immediately began unloading her backpack. She had stamped a picture for the principal and painted a picture for her teacher. Girlfriend knows how to get on their good side :) And no, none of that was my idea!
Her teacher loved her painting.She had a great first day. Her teacher reported that she was a "little mama". Yes she is!

Registration and First Day of 2nd Grade!

Last Thursday was registration day for school! That really just means we go find out who our teachers are and take all of our supplies (and just a side note, we had a TON of supplies, as in 6 Kroger bags stuffed full between the 2 of them!).


I'm so excited about both of their teachers. I know they will both have amazing years.

Then today was C's first official day of 2nd grade!! He looks so much older to me in this picture. He did get a haircut yesterday, so maybe that's it ;)His biggest concern this morning was whether or not they would start Math today :) He knows he has at least 3 girls and 1 boy from his class last year, so I don't think he was too worried about finding friends. I can't wait to hear what he has to say about his first day!

Tomorrow is AP's first day of kindergarten! How can that be???

All To Ourselves

There is a small waterpark not too far from our house. I used to go there growing up, but had never taken the kiddos there because it is always so crowded. Last week our friend who works there offered to let us come play there after it closed. We had the whole waterpark to ourselves and it was so much fun!

We stayed for a few hours that night then ended up going back one morning a few days later and playing for a few hours before it opened. The kiddos are never going to want to wait in a line again :)

Last Summer Road Trip

Last week we made our last road trip of the summer. After going to Cincy the week before with friends for baseball, we came home for a few days then headed right back to Ohio to visit Nanna, Aunt Rach and family.

Nanna recently got a small pool for her backyard. That was the perfect entertainment for all the cousins as it was close to 100 degrees during our visit.

Friday night we went to their county fair and derby.
Both of my kiddos are apparently very good at throwing darts. C threw several times to win other people prizes and AP popped a balloon on her first toss. This was after my aunt and sister tried, but couldn't do it!Gotta love tacky fair prizes...

This is when I confess that when my sister mentioned going to the derby, I thought we were going to see horses race! I had never heard of a demolition derby :)

The kiddos were cooling off with a snow cone while waiting for the cars to begin their race to crush each other.

Then there was a junior demolition lawn mower derby! I kept thinking "Are their parents not worried about them getting hurt!?" I mean the goal is to crash into each other until you or your mower are rendered useless.

Then, imagine my surprise when grown men got on their lawn mowers! They were very serious about this.

The kiddos had time for a few rides after the derby. We were shocked to learn that C is officially too tall for the kiddie rides. There was even a fun house obstacle course type thing set up and he was too tall for that! He wasn't too upset, though, that just meant he could get on the big rides :)
The cousins enjoyed popsicles on Nanna's front porch swing on our last night there.

Little T dropped his on the sidewalk and the next thing we knew he was eating it off the ground face first!

Delirious girls up way past their bed time :)
We had a great visit and are looking forward to going back at the end of the month for T's 2nd birthday!