random thoughts...

I am so excited... I got some fun scrapbooking supplies yesterday. Now, I just need to get going on the girls' books.

Speaking of scrapbooking, I was planning on going to an all day event to crop in August. Then I saw that there was a daycare training that was 6 hours as well on the same day. And, the training won out. I am a little, ok, a lot bummed I won't be cropping but I really like the series of trainings and know it will be a great addition to our lessons this fall.

I can not believe it has been almost a week since blogging.

Last night we had a blast at one of my lil' friends birthday party. She turned 5 and we hung out at Chuck E. Cheese for the evening and it was really a fun time for our family.

This was one of our catch up projects this week. I had purchased these kits for frog week and we never did them. So we did them Monday. This week we have been doing activities and projects from past themes that we didn't get to. It's been fun having different projects that have nothing in common.

I have 6 more (working) days with my school aged kids. We are having a huge back to school party for T, J, H, and F before they leave. It has been a non stop moving summer but I will miss having the older ones around.

I am looking forward to having a lighter load the first 2 weeks in August to get KK and Gaby ready for school schedules, get daycare ready for fall, and cleaning. The end of summer is so bittersweet this year.

Normally Mia has the biggest curls in her hair. I used my hot iron on her hair and it looked so cute and so long. I must say, I am not doing this again because it also made her look so old. I have to keep her and Kenni babies as long as I can!!!

We are signing on for yet another house project... this time it is getting hired out (hopefully). I am excited and nervous all at once. Our house is almost 40 years old we are trying to update it on a small budget. Project by project... one day at a time, right?

I was able to use my Gymboree buck this past weekend and stock up on some fall things for KK and Mia. I have an online cart of goodies waiting for Gaby as well. So, we really just need to get bags, shoes, and supplies.

Kenni is doing good... earlier this week I took her her out of the exersaucer and found this. It was on my arm, up her back, and reached up to her shoulders. Man oh man it was a mess. I cleaned her up, threw her in the tub and got her back to my nice clean baby again!

We go for her 6 mo. appointment next week. I am so anxious to see her growth progress. She looks so much longer and cheeks are chunkier. We have started giving her cereal as well. She does pretty well with it and like licking the spoon.

She has one tooth already in and two more poking through. She doesn't act like she is teething but you can see (and feel) that they are coming in.

We are starting to get her on bottles. Kadyn was so excited to get to feed her. I am just not keeping up with her growing needs and I have several all day trainings and events coming up that would be harder to plan for if still nursing. She'll start baby food soon and I still have 1-2 months worth of breast milk stored up for her. So, I think it is a great time to make the move. Plus, the girls LOVE getting to feed her.

We have one last baseball game and then we are finished, our season was supposed to be done back around July 4th. Our rain out game on Tuesday was rained out so we'll have that to make up.
We start swimming lessons this next week. The girls are all kinds of excited and it is Mia's first year in a parent tot class. She has no fear and is used to swimming in our pool by herself. So, I have a little worry we'll be fighting her to stay with us in the class... we'll see!

Dustin and I are up to the same ol' same ol. He is super busy at work and working a litter later the normal. They get so much done when teachers and staff are out of the schools for the summer. He loves getting to wear shorts and tees to work. I love it too b/c it cuts down on the laundry. Like I said, I am gearing up for fall, new lessons, new curriculum components, new kids, new round of learning. I will have a younger group this year so we are going back to basics and I am looking forward to it.

I am growing my hair out which means a lot of hat wearing for me. I hate weird awkward hair times.

We have been doing a lot of playing outside. This is what the tub looked like after Gaby got out.

I guess that is a lot of rambling going on... kids will be here any moment! Promise to keep up on the blog a little better this coming week!