silly....

TAKE ONE:

Emily: "mom, Friday is Pajama day at school because we are learning about the sound a letter P makes."

Me: :thats cool, what Pj's are you going to wear?"

Emily: "I want to wear my purple flower ones and bring my blanket"

Me: "well, you cant bring a blanket honey, you are not sleeping at school"

Emily: "yes we are, it's Pajama day! It's going to be soooooo funny, because the boys are all going to wear underpants!!!!!"

(Jacob, obviously only sleeps in his unders)


TAKE TWO:

Emily: "mom, can you may please get me some fresh water with ice in it because that water is yucky and dry. I don't like dry water"


TAKE THREE:

We took the kids to the store the other day and let them pick something from the dollar section at Target. Emily picks READING GLASSES!!
we popped the lenses out of them, and she has not stopped wearing them. She even wanted to wear them to school today...and DID!! She said she loves her new glasses because now her and Katelyn look like twins!!

Take me out to the ball game!

After the game, fireworks


Tomahawk CHOP!


Jacob




Inside the park!




John took a customer to a Braves game last Friday and invited me and Jacob along! It was our first Braves game, and will NOT be our last! It was a great time! Even though they lost 9-3!
Thanks John for the great time!!!

swinging to "outer space"!!

John decided (after I asked him really nice) to make the kids a tree swing yesterday. It turned out great and only took a couple hours to do. A LOT of tossing the football (with rope attached) up in the tree, trying to get it in just the right spot!! It is a REALLY high tree!!! Because of the slope in the yard we have asked the kids NOT to walk back and get a running start until we are super sure its going to be o-k-a-y!!!
John was too scared to test it out, so I was was more than happy to give it a try, again and again!!
I'll admit, I went on it while the kids were at school today!!!!

They are having a ball with it! Emily said "daddy said no going cwazy and swinging to outer space"!!

GO BLUE!!

CEDAR POINT

Katelyn





Emily






Dan



Cool Cousins, riding the rocket ship





Christine and I



The Family hopped in the van and went to Ohio for some Cousins Campout and we all went to Cedar Point On Saturday. The weather was perfect, the group was excited and the cash machine was workin...overtime!!!! (only kinda kidding on that last one)

Our trip in numbers:

1. number on vehicles in took to get NINE people to Cedar Point (you had to see it)
3. number of kids who got face painting done
15. how much money it took John to win the boys basketballs
7. number of coasters Katelyn went on (Jacob went on 6)
50. number of times Jacob said he was "going to die" while riding the Gemini
5. number of minutes it took for my kids to fall asleep when in the van on the way home


That's all I've got...I cant think today!! SORRY! :)

Emily can read!

Emily has been working on "sight words" at school the past two weeks and hearing her read her first book, really READ her first book, brought tears to my eyes! I was so happy for her! the look on her little face when she was finished was AMAZING. A look of such accomplishment, such joy, such pride!!!!

Back to school update...

Kids are all liking the new school. It really is brand new, so they are experiencing it for the first time along with all the other kids. It's a beautiful school with two floors so the "big kids" go upstairs and the "littler kids" stay down.

On the second day Emily was ready to walk alone to class so I reluctantly let her go and watched from the hall the whole time, making sure she made it to the right room. She has no time for tears, fears or silly moms who wont let go!!!!

Jacob is LOVING his new class. The teacher is really engaging the children and he seems to really enjoy all things NON FICTION, so that is great. Right now they are learning about maps. We had him map out out trip to Ohio that is coming up and he felt sooooo proud as he was able to answer all my questions without hesitation about the map! He said its because "they learned all that really easy stuff in like, first grade"!!

Katelyn was super exited to have a "boy" for a teacher this year and now she might be re thinking that. She was really excited to find that he was a huge history buff, something that Katelyn and Jacob both find very fascinating. He and his family travel around the country to different battle sights and take pictures and such so that when they talk about these things in class he can show the kids. He was in the military and so he brings a bit of that also into the class room, something Katelyn has found she is not so sure of...
I can tell you that ALL of last year she maybe had one instance of having a code wrote in her folder for forgetting something or whatever. (a code being a number assigned to a rule)
This year (less than two weeks in) she has had to "walk laps" TWICE already. Poor thing.
Its really for little things that she did forget (new rules) and its is teaching her to follow through and be responsible, I get all that, but I really already want to have a talk with that teacher!! (kidding...kinda)

I was giving Katelyn a bit of a teasing at the table last night and I told her, "you keep up this pattern and you will be just like I was in school. Getting detention, walking to the principals office, notes home to the parents".
To which she replied, "But I don't want to be like you were in school, I have seen your report cards"!!!!!!!


GOOD GIRL!!!!