First Day of School 2010

Here we go again! A week ago, Kellen started Kindergarten and Bonnie went to PreK. I spent a couple of days cleaning up from summertime, and now the house is awfully quiet! Thursday was a chapel day, so K had to wear his fancy shirt. Bonnie gets to be more casual until Kindergarten.


Once she realized everyone was taking backpacks, Noelle insisted on carrying hers, too.
Yay! Bonnie has Mrs. B, who taught Kellen last year. We love this lady. This was a very hard picture to get because Bonnie just wanted to start with the Play-Doh.
What a big boy...his classroom is a few steps away from Bonnie's.
Going home...
Oh, wait...no one to bother me. Noelle hasn't missed a beat, and I'm really enjoying our special time together.

Noelle and I start at the Parents' Day Out next week!

Life of a 2-year-old

Favorite book right now: "Daw Doe" - Go Dog GoEating pizza dough which was supposed to be rising on the counter:
Finders keepers, losers weepers...
Lots of time in the corner...

Noelle's 2nd Birthday

We started today with our traditional birthday trip to the donut shop. Always a favorite time for the children.
Then, we took a little early morning trip to the park, dropped Josh off at physical therapy, went to Dollar Tree, picked Josh up, and had a normal day. My mom and Josh's brother and his family came over for dinner tonight. I had cut up some watermelon, and the girls found it.


Not sure about the candles:
Oops...don't get that close...
She wanted Josh to blow out her candles. We'll try again next year.




Surprise!
She was worn out.
I'm not entirely sure Noelle knows what a birthday is, but when asked she said, "Nee do-day." That means "me birthday." She speaks her own language. Anyway, we had a great day and I think it's official that we have no more babies in our house. Happy birthday, big girl!

More Bonnie

I know, I know, there've been a lot of kid quotes lately, but this one is too good not to share. We were driving to church last night and saw a small sedan with a Domino's Pizza sign on top. Bonnie gasped and said, "Is that the cash cab?"

Also, can we tell these kids have been watching a lot of Discovery Channel with their recovering-from-knee-surgery dad lately?

Shark Week

Kellen loves to watch nature shows (Planet Earth, Life, Wild Russia, etc.). His goal right now is to become a nature photographer (or a dentist), and he's always telling me where he wants to go (Angel Falls and New Zealand are the favorites right now - I always ask if I can go, too.). So we were watching Shark Week last night, and he said, "I just want to watch shark week. I don't want to go there." Good thinking, in my opinion.