Funny Playdate!

So my kids were having a play date with some friends and this is what I walked upstairs to find. I love it. Prince and princesses dancing at the ball. Can you tell that my kids are like a foot taller than thier cute little friends. My friend Chalyce calls us giants. I guess most of the members of our family being an average of over 6 foot (including women) we can't help it. Can I tell you how much I love dress up play. It is my favorite and my total weakness. My spoiled kids have seriously over 75 dress ups. I am a sucker for them and I love to foster imagination. They get oodles of use and I still have others to grow up to use them so its ok right? (this is what I tell myself).

My Little Boy is in Preschool!

So we started preschool last week! I am doing a Joy School. I did this with Ambra and I love it! I have to teach 5 times the entire year and we have everything very organized and planned. We are having so much fun. I am the first teacher and there are seven kids in the group. We made cookies today, had a teddy bear picnic, wrote the letter B on the sidewalk and sorted and counted plastic toys that we fished out of a pool. They love the show and tell and music time. Cole will have preschool for two years because he barely misses the cutoff (Bday Sept. 3). He is such a cutie!

Happy Birthday Cole!

So the night before, Adam and I blew up 100 balloons for his party and we put them all in his room to wake up to. This was classic and I totally wish I had video cameraed. We were outside the door spying when he was waking up and it was totaly worth the hurt fingers and sore cheeks from those dang balloons. As he was coming to, he just barely opened his eyes and was about to rollover to go back to sleep and when suddenly he shot up and looked around like, what in the... He mumbled something about balloons and then jumped out of bed. So fun.

We let him open presents first thing that morning and made him milkshakes for breakfast. Then we took him to Toys R Us where he got to spend his gift certificate from Geoffrey the Giraffe and his birthday money from Grandma H.
My poor children have been deprived, this is the first time I thought to teach them how to stick balloons to thier heads.

Calling All Super Heroes!!

Cole is 4!! My little boy turned 4 on September 3. Wow, so many changes in September, Cole is four, Ambra is in school, and Ariah just went into nursery (Woot!) on Sunday.

So we had a little birthday party for Cole and invited the kids he frequently plays with. There ended up being 14 kids there, and I decided that it would be a good idea for me to SEW capes for all these children. It shouldn't take that long right? Well I must have chosen that day to take leave of my senses because it definitely took longer than I thought ( just don't look to closely at the sewing job.) Anyway, when the kids got there, they puff painted a peice of matierial cut out with there initial, (we put them on the capes in the emblem when they were dry.) They turned out so cute.
I got a bunch of bad guy posters from movie theaters and I had the kids practice their Spidey Skills. They used silly string to "web sling" the bad guys. They had a total blast with this.
Sorry didn't turn the picture. I was "Super Coach". We were having a training party for these super heroes and so of course I had to dress the part.

Adam and I blew up 100 balloons the night before and we put them in the toy room. Each kid had a red balloon they had to save. The green balloons were kryptonite (stay away), and all the other colors were the bad guys. They had to kick, punch, and pop all of those. Note: this is very noisy and completely insane.
All the kids came dressed as super heroes. This is our cute friend Sam as Wolverine.
Spiderman Cole and Wonder Woman Ambra. She was a little upset we didn't have a lasso to go with her costume.

My Darlings Real First Day of School!

There she goes! Into kindergarten. The world has officially entered my house. I was really trying not to make a fool of myself or her in front of the kids and the other parents.
Her cute little friend Bailey is in her same class. They are so cute. They come home everyday just jabbering a mile a minute about the happenings. I hope that never ends.
"Mom! When can we go inside?"
My little girl on her first full day without mommy.
She got her favorite breakfast on her first day. Cinnamon sugar monkey bread.