It's September and even though its still 100million degrees outside we've been in major get-ready-for-fall-school-end-of-summer-cleaning-out-organizing mode over here. So, its unacceptable that these random photos have been sitting in post no-mans-land for weeks and weeks. Let's wrap this up...
Maggie cooling off in a little bucket-pool sometime mid-summer. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
Cheese face.
Jumping back - the long awaited play-date w/ Owen's preschool class (many of these kids he's been in school with at Westminster since we moved to Austin right before he turned 2). They're all off to kindergarten now (more on that in another post). Trampoline + hose + watermelon and cupcakes (off the trampoline)...good times.
Maggie flying. Kyle photo-bombing.
Maggie passed out at the kitchen counter in mid-snack.
Dont' worry mom, she was very stable and I got her down and put her to bed.
Owen & Rebecca gearing up for the neighborhood 4th of July parade. It was a real treat this year. Kyle stayed back with Maggie - I forget why - and I walked while both kids rode their bikes. They did so well on their own!!!
Checking out books from the library at Owen's soon-to-be kindergarten school. They had the library open each Wed (and the playground for the upcoming kindergarteners - we only made it to that once or twice because it was just tooooo hot).
Our favorite new neighbor friends moved to Japan. No, we didn't scare them out of the 'hood. They went for a year-long job opportunity and will be back. We got to host a little going away party for them - so fun! - and since she doesn't eat sushi (what???) we had some for her made out of rice crispies. (Booyah to all those pinterest nay-sayers.)
Magalicious with crazy ice-cream hair at chick-fil-A.
In general - the older they are the cleaner they are.
Owen sporting a gift and Rebecca holding one from Bee/JoJo from one of those Nordic countries they went to.
Maggie having a little second dinner w/ Carlos - aka: ARLOOOOOO! What he eats, she'll eat.
Owen made his own PB&J (not real P). Stuff like this happens and I realize he'll grow up if I would only let him! Sweet and sad all at the same time.
Rebecca sporting her multiple stickers covering multiple bandaids from multiple vaccinations at her four-year well-check. She was a total trooper. Not even a tear. (Remember the story of her getting her finger pricked when she was like two and she just stared the phlebotomyist down?) One tough cookie.
A little playground time when we were fooled for a minute into thinking that it wasn't going to be very hot that morning...
Mommy, can we go? We're frying out here.
Our sweet Kimberly (babysitter/helper extraordinaire) moved and this was her last day. Saddness. But we'll see her again when she moves back to Austin - yea!
Can I be totally unorganized and throw in some other random kid notes to this one? I just want to cross it off my list. :)
Maggie
- Loves to high-five, and holds her arm way back (behind her head) for a really really long time before laundhing. sometimes the launch (and high five) doesn't even happen - she just leaves it back there and yells 'high five"
- Started sleeping in her big girl bed (6/20) followed by several nights of bed-febering followed by us throwing our hands in the air and putting her in her travel tent (which she loves) on her bed. zipped in. Tent gets moved to my closet for nap time so the kids can have free reign upstairs and I don't have a heart attack every time they make a noise. Everyone is happy.
- WORDS: Lots more. Our favorite are: OBIDEEE (Open it - usually screamed and repeated), HONREEEE (hungry), NAH (snack), I-DO-YYYYYY (I'll do it)...she'll try to repeat most anything you say, but a lot of times it isn't even close. She generally prefers the loudest voice she has when speaking.
Rebecca
- yoda-hay-he-hoo
- she got a new bed the same time Maggie did - she generally stays in hers - but there have been a few nights that I've gone up to check on the kids and she's not in bed (minor panic) and I find her curled up with a blanket on the little couch in Owen's room
- I GOT TO TELL YOU SOMEPIN MOMMA. I GOT TO TELL YOU SOMEPIN MOMMA.
Owen
- told me he was jealous of the pretty pillows I got for Rebecca's bed (little throw pillows) - gave me some ideas of what would look good on his bed (some actual good ideas!)
- loves Magic School Bus, Wild Krats, chapter books (yea for the kindergarten reading list that got us reading all sorts of NEW stuff this summer!!!)
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