I’ve been slacking….

so here are a few photos of the past month or so….

Crazy Hair Night at Awana, Adeline has 6 pigtails and Wilder has spikes all over

visiting the “Apple Barn” on our TN trip….

the kids’ first lemonade stand–lemonade made with REAL lemons and Wilder yelling, “you wanna buy some wemonade?”

and Wilder’s reaction to the missing tooth….

A day of firsts….

We are so proud of Chad who completed his first triathlon today!  He met all of his goals…#1-he finished the race, #2-he didn’t walk on the running portion, #3-he didn’t puke, #4-he finished in under two hours!  Here are a few pics:

And Miss Loose Tooth got brave and asked her daddy to pull her tooth tonight!!!!!!!

My firstborn is growing up…Chad reminded me … its only the beginning.    No, I am not crying.

Wilder’s Days

Wilder is surviving days without Adeline, but he still has trouble playing by himself.  He is enjoying his toy dinosaurs lately and one even joined him for a bike ride this week.

Adeline’s “To Learn” List

Adeline has this little list in her mind of things she really wants to accomplish.  Among the items on it are swinging by herself, tying her shoe, losing a tooth, and riding a bike without training wheels.  Well, in the past few weeks she has accomplished two off the list.  It is such a thrill to see her excitement in these accomplishments.  She is growing up so fast. 

So, the first thing she conquered was swinging on her own.  She was so excited to show me, then Chad, and then Dearie & Grampy when they were here last weekend.  I caught a little bit on film.

And last night, Adeline showed me that she can tie her shoe!  She has to work a little on making it tight enough, but she’s got the basic idea right.  We are SO proud of her!

A lonely penny…

Today, Wilder found a penny in the sand box.  He brought it over to me and said it was crying.  I asked why.  He said that it wanted its mommy and daddy.  I asked where they were.  He said, “In my piggy bank!” 

A Mouse in Our House!

We had two mice in our house this week!  One disappeared once the kids got in bed, the other was harder to get rid of.    Notice the white gloves like Mickey…    These pictures make us all anxious to return to Disney.  Why can’t Uncle Chris work there forever?! 

Wilder’s Glasses

Day 1 of Wilder with glasses.  So far so good.  These are “Diego” glasses…tiny pic of Diego on the side piece and tiny pics of animals on the other side piece.  He is still a little squinty with them on and I forgot to clean his face before this photo.    He’s cute anyway!

Wilder is 3!

We celebrated Wilder’s third birthday this weekend.  I’m not even sure if I ever posted birthday pics from Adeline’s birthday, but I’ll get to it.  Meanwhile, here are a few we have from Wilder’s weekend.

This week’s updates…

Adeline has survived her first two days of kindergarten.  She keeps saying she had a great day, but is having trouble recounting all of it.    This morning she was very tired, so the traveling and starting school are starting to catch up with her.  In fact, its catching up with all of us!

Chad hasn’t been feeling well this week, so if you think of him, please pray for him.

Wilder is getting excited about his birthday.  Usually, when I ask him what he wants, he says “cake”.  Yesterday, when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday, he said he was going to ask for a trampoline!  Not sure where that came from, except that Adeline jumped on one in her first gymnastics class on Monday.    Also not sure if he will get a trampoline…the kid never asks for anything, I really want to get it for him!

Also, we found out today that Wilder will be getting glasses next week.  He was so cute trying them on and he is excited about it. 

That’s it for now!

Today is Adeline’s First Day of Kindergarten!

We are holding up okay so far, but we only dropped her off 49 minutes ago.    Both Chad and I were a little teary eyed, Wilder doesn’t know what to think.

So, I told Adeline she could get up when her clock said 7am and get ready.  We set out her clothes last night.  I opened my bedroom door at 7:02am and she was standing there and said, “I’m almost ready for kindergarten, Mom!”  She was already dressed, made up her bed, and brushed her hair.    The only mishap this morning was that she spilled orange juice all over her dress and had to change clothes.  Good thing she got up early!   She started to get a tummy ache during breakfast (nerves I guess), but she had no hesitation at school.  When we got to her room she said, “Bye Mom!” several times before I was actually ready to leave the room. 

Here are the photos Chad and I took of this big event!  Enjoy!