A new song

Here's a cute song that Sarah learned her first day of school--she sang it constantly for a few days, and as you can see, the other 2 have learned it as well.

My helper

Jason is really becoming a great helper around the house, with big brother and sister at school all day. Here's his newest accomplishment--he can now sort laundry (for the most part). He thinks he's big stuff!

School Days

Well, I survived letting my kids go off to school. The were both talking a mile a minute afterwards, telling us all about it over an Appebee's celebratory meal. Sarah says she was the "goodest" one--she only talked when she raised her hand. I guess she did this 3 times--once to use the restroom, once for a drink, and once because she needed to get the pebbles out of her shoes--I'm guessing these were the only 3 times she opened her mouth this morning! She helped a little girl tie her shoes, and she's already made lots of new friends. She exclaimed, "Kindergarten is AWESOME!" Miss Horan said she was a little shy, but other than that, she was great. Levi loves his new teacher--says he'd give her 10 thumbs up if he had that many thumbs! He's so excited that he gets to sit next to Micah and Isaac, and he thinks this teacher doesn't mind a bit if they talk. He said she even turned off the AC some so that they could hear each other better when they were chatting with each other. I've tried to warn him that the rules might change soon, but he's convinced that this year's going to be a breeze! He looked all over the room, and could find no cards to be turned (this is how some classes handle discipline issues--start out on green, then go to other colors of cards when you get warnings.) I'm afraid he might be in for a rude awakening, but so far, he's feeling lots of freedom! I so love to hear these kids talk about their days...hope they never get too cool for mom and dad!

Butterflies...

So tomorrow is the first day of school--we went there tonight and got to see who their teachers will be/who's in their classes--we were soo happy to have them placed with great teachers and their closest friends. Everyone's pretty excited--Sarah has been squealing all day, "I get to go to Kindergarten tomorrow!" She's most excited about her new school socks and shoes...shoes with rainbow colored lights on them. Not this mom's first choice, but she was so in love with them, I couldn't say no. They about give me a migraine every time I look at them--talk about sensory overload! Sarah says she's excited to start school, but she has butterflies in her stomach--I don't tell her mommy does, too. I had a good cry in the shower this morning, trying to picture what it's going to be like to leave her there. Oh, I hope she doesn't cry--I don't know if I could handle that. Levi's classroom looks so cool and big kiddish--their desks are set up in little clusters, and he's already chosen to be next to 2 of his best friends. I think he might just be on his best behavior so the teacher doesn't move him away from them! Pictures to come...

CORN!!!

I spent a day this past week at my Dad and Mom's house freezing corn, with the help of a couple sisters, my Mom and lots of nieces and nephews. What a messy job--but we did all but the cooking in the garage this time, so it was a super easy clean up with a broom and the hose. Lots of memories of doing this on the farm growing up--I just never got quite as into the worms/caterpillars as our kids did. They were a huge help--even got in on stomping the trash can down so we add to it. After dividing the corn all up, I'm not sure it was worth the time and effort, but we sure had fun!





How do you rotate these pictures? I can't figure it out.

Homemade pie...

...at least that's what the kids called it! They could've done this for hours!

Water fun at the zoo

The zoo had free admission for kids last Sunday, with firefighters providing fun water games, and Baskin R*bins providing free ice cream. Sadly Robbie was sick and couldn't join us, but the kids had a blast!

Oh, the things he's learning...

So we were at a youth camp all week, playing outside a lot, and Jason's nose was pretty runny. At one time I didn't have a tissue on me, and he really needed his nose wiped. I tore off a piece of a coloring book page that I had folded up with me and said, "Jason, see? You can use paper to wipe your nose if you don't have a tissue." I think we even used a leaf from a tree once. I guess he thought that was pretty cool, because this morning while playing Candyl*nd with his brother and sister, he decided to fold one of the cards in half and wipe his nose on it! Of course that was followed by a howl from big brother, and "Gross! Why'd you do that?" My bad...