First Day of School

Madison started Kindergarten this year and she has been so excited!!! A few weeks ago our school did a "Kinder Academy" to introduce the kids and parents to kindergarten. Since then Madison was asking every day when she got to go to school. Well the day finally arrived and she was SO EXCITED!!!!

John was able to come with me to take the kids to school. Unfortunately we some how let the time get away from us and we didn't get to school as early as I had hoped. So we had to divide and conquer. John took Charles to his class and I took Madison.

She did great! No tears or sad faces. She walked right in and found her seat. (I really think the Kinder Academy prepared her for this day.)

When I picked them up from school Charles' teacher told me he is WONDERFUL. That is always great to hear. 

Madison said she had fun at school and is making friends 

 The kids were not cooperating when I was trying to take photos. And Madison kept rubbing her eyes so she kept making funny faces.

 My Handsome 2nd Grader!!!!

 And our Beautiful Kindergartener!!!!

 Ready to Learn!

It's gonna be a Great Year!!! I love their school and their teachers!

Summer Wrap up Part 3 (August)

I didn't do so well at taking photos in August. We spent a lot of time around the house again.

John's sister gave us TONS of Geo Tracks that her kids don't play with anymore so John and the kids built as HUGE city in our loft. The kids loved it!

Claudia even enjoyed playing, or should I say destroying it!

I found a fun craft called Hot Rocks. You basically heat up rocks in the oven and then paint on them with crayons. The crayon melts when it touches the rock and then hardens when it cools. I've been wanting to do this for a while but the kids were NOT interested. I finally convinced them to do it and they LOVED it! 

Until each of them got burned! 

But they did say that want to get more rocks and do it again. I guess they didn't get too scared from the burns!

 I think they look so COOL!!!

We also tried to complete our "Summer To Do List." 

 

We didn't get everything done. We were a little too ambitious this year. It was a lot more difficult to do some things with a new born and a very ACTIVE toddler!

Maybe next year!

Summer Wrap up Part 2 (July)

The first few days of July were tough. My due date was July 4th and I was hoping to have the baby well before then. But of course she did not arrive until 2 days later. So instead of putting life on hold for those couple of days I tried to keep myself and the kids busy in hopes that it would make me go into labor. 

On Monday July 2nd, Charles birthday. We met up with my sister-n-law and her kids for lunch and then headed to SeaScape to play. The kids LOVED it!!!!

 This was the best photo I could get of the 3 of them with my camera on my phone!

Then we went to Red Robin for dinner with my family. 

On the 4th of July we hosted dinner at our house. Complete with 4th of July, Red, White, and Blue drinks. The kids LOVED them and they tasted pretty good too! 

 Grandpa brought sparklers for us to play with. The kids always enjoy them.

 (This is me and my prego belly 2 days before I delivered.)

Katelyn was born
July 6th

The rest of the month we spent A LOT of time at home.

 We played with Bubbles!

We watched a LOT of Tangled. One of Claudia's favorite movies. 

 We went to Chick-fil-A for Cow Appreciation day! A tradition of ours.

(This is our first and only family photo with all 6 of us. I guess I need to get a new one taken soon! This one probably won't look so good on our wall.)

 

Charles got this great little pool for his birthday and the kids just LOVED playing in it. It sure beats playing in two buckets.

 Charles likes to do silly poses these days! He's always making us laugh!

 (I love the photo above, that is a REAL smile. Not too often you get on of those in a photo.)

Claudia loves holding Katelyn, but as you can see Katelyn wasn't really feelin it and Claudia did not care that she was screaming her head off.

 Just hangin out at home!

We took the kids to Irvine park to play for the day. They had a great time at the Zoo!

 Claudia loved the petting zoo! She kept wanting the goats to lick her. She LOVES animals!

 Madison on the other hand was very hesitant about brushing the goats, but finally got the courage to do it and enjoyed it.

Charles was TOO COOL for the petting zoo. 

 But he did enjoy feeding the ducks!

It was easier for John to have her on his shoulders tan to chase her!

Katelyn enjoys being held AT ALL TIMES!!!!

 Claudia just checking her out!

 Madison is our little Mommy. Any time Katelyn cries she rushes over to pick her up and tries to calm her down. Most of the time it works! 
She also has been asking me when she is going to be a mommy.  
She gives Katelyn hugs and kisses ALL day LONG!!!!

July was also the month Charles started Rookie Ball. 

It was a pretty busy month! But we enjoyed EVERY DAY!!!!!