Back to School

Our Jillian started first grade at a new school on Monday!  She did great.

Jillian runs on Dunkin'...

Traditional first day of school breakfast out.  Dunkin' was her choice!

The fun crossing guard gave her the sign to hold.  So cute!

Mom, go AWAYYYY!

Hodge Podge

Here's a hodge podge post of things we've been doing around here...

eating lots and lots of corn!

playing Handy Manny, using Pat to help build book shelves

having a tea party with our own hand painted tea sets

taking silly pictures of our sister

shopping for first grade school supplies

and typing our name on the computer!

Avalon pt. 2

Avalon Vacation

Natalie slept in a big girl bed for the very first time.  She did great!

photo by Natalie

Oh, Natalie...

One day, our favorite 3.5 year old was taking pictures around the house.  The rest of us were busy doing things and not really paying attention to what she was doing.  Eventually, the hats and gloves bin was knocked over and there was a mess.  So, we took the camera back from her and asked her to pick them up.

Days later, we download the pictures and just had to laugh.  It seems she was taking a photo inventory of all our winter accessories...

and just to make it even more cute... there was this self portrait

Kate turns 6!

Jill being sung to by Kate's mom

fun game: see how many cotton balls you can pick up with a vaseline covered nose.  Jill was one of the best!

best buddies

friends!

Natalie in her Aerosmith tshirt  :)

Beautiful Butterfly

We found this beautiful butterfly 'trapped' in our van.  He came in through the rear door which was still open, but he just couldn't find his way out.  We watched him for a minute or two and then opened the window and watched him fly off.  That evening we were sure to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  :)