Cereal already!!!

Never thought I would be feeding my now 4 month old cereal already. How did that happen, I swear Little Squirt is going to surpass everything I am use to in infants. Here he is eating his cereal.




Tomorrow we find out how much this little bugger now weights. My guess is around 18 lbs, Dad guesses 17 lbs 3 ozs. We'll see who is closer.... He is already into 6-9 month clothes, I have to do some shopping for some new stuff, we don't have much in fall clothes of that size. May I remind you that he is only 4 months old.

Bugs of Clay

Wednesday at school Bean made these fun creatures. Bugs made out of clay, not sure what we are going to do with them once they dry. We already have a crate full of pictures and a fridge cover in them. Now I am going to need a box for all the 3D crafts she brings home. Do we have a budding artist?

Fun at the Fair

Last weekend, September 6-7th we went to Grandma Sylvia's to attend the County Fair in her town. We try to get up there every year and the kids always have lots of fun. Here are pictures of fun for the weekend. The ever fun Carousel!!

Little Squirt enjoying a snooze.

Riding motorcycles, at this young age.

They seem so small beside this Big "NEW" Tractor.

In a Skid steer.

And lastly they had a Blast when they got to ride the Ponies!!!

Little Squirt couldn't ride but had fun anyway.

We all can't wait to go again next year. The fair is so much fun and a great family outing.

Week in Review

Lets see if I can update you on what we have been up to lately.

On Wednesday last week Bean started Preschool. She also went on Friday and when I went to pick her up she couldn't wait to take me to her class and show her the chrysalis that formed during class. That was exciting!! She has loved everyday of Preschool she has gone and Thursday evening this week our conversation went like this.

Bean: "when we wake up in the morning, am I going to school?"
Mom: "no, it's not your Friday"
Bean: " yes I am"
Mom: "no honey, it's the other groups turn"

She did finally figure out that the Tues/Thurs group goes this Friday and she will go next, but I am sure that when she doesn't get to go again we will go through the same thing. Oh well, that all part of learning.

Wednesday last week I also had a council meeting and again this week Wednesday (Budget time)
Daddy dear has been busy at work and also has his many meetings at the beginning of the month. Things should slow down for a while now.

Thursday marked the 7th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Do you remember where you were when the towers fell. I do..... We were getting ready to go to school. My sister was over seas in Paris waiting to get on a plane. Scary, huh? Let all remember those that lost their lives in that attack and those that lost their lives trying to save others. Also remember those left behind.

When the World Stopped Turning

First Day of School

I can't believe my baby is in school already! Bean's first day of Preschool was today. She was so excited, I was too!! It's amazing how time just flies by when you aren't looking. I can still remember the day I told her Dad she was on the way, and the day we brought her home!! It was just like yesterday, but we all know that isn't right. Well because there are 2 more little ones that have since joined the family and 4 years have passed. She is quite the little Lady!!!

Here she is before we left home.

All day I was giddy to see how her day went. No I didn't cry, I think I was just excited for her to go as she was to go. She hardly said goodbye to her brothers and me. But I guess that's better than the alternative right? Her class room is great, they have lots of stations for the kids to play and learn in. Bean got to visit Preschool this past Spring and I will always remember her teacher (the same teacher that she has now) say "She didn't stop smiling the whole day!!" And ever since that day she has talked about going to school.

Bean is very eager to learn and I know she will do well in class. She decided to bring her own lunch today, but we did set her up an account so that she can get school lunches when she wants to as well.

Here she is at school when I picked her up.
Today they learned about Bugs! They have a monarch caterpillar in their class room to hopefully watch change. When we were getting ready to leave she was just a bundle of energy and non stop talking. I think she's going to have a blast learning!!!

Camping - Final Post

Here's Rollie with our only catch of the weekend. We set it free, but after each of the kids got a chance to touch it. As you can see only Lil' Buddy was brave enough, maybe someday Bean will be brave.

Hmm.... I just noticed with all these pictures from our fun camping trip only one had Lil' Squirt in it. Note to self, take pics of the baby. Here are a couple of the little guy on our bed in the camper.
It was a fun camping trip, hope to repeat it again next year. To bad that our second trip this August wasn't as fun, but it was a different experience with the kids in someones cabin.

I seemed to have figured out how to get more pictures on a post, blogger must have had some technical difficulties.

Camping - Post 3

We tried the camping thing again this Labor Day weekend. It was a bust, we left Friday evening and met our friend at his cousin's "cabin" on the Lake. We unloaded the boats at the dock and Rollie pulled ours over behind his. Saturday the guys went out a little bit on the boats, but then the wind came and never stopped. This wasn't just a breeze either. We decided Sat night it wasn't worth staying so Sunday morning we loaded up and left. Oh well at least we got one Great weekend camping. On with those pictures....

Bean, Little Buddy, Little Squirt and I went to the park a couple of times and had a great time on this managery of slides. Lil' Squirt just looked on with mommy, for obvious reasons.

Then Saturday evening while the guys were out on the boat trying to catch something we went wading in the lake. The kids couldn't understand why we just couldn't go swimming. I didn't think it would be safe to put a toddler, a preschooler, an infant and mom all in the lake and think I could keep watch on the older 2. I promised we would go for a swim Sunday mid-morning, but unfortunately the wind came up. Darn wind seems to always spoil the fun, maybe next year.