Happy Birthday Tessa!!! 14

Happy Birthday Tessa!  (video at blog)


 Long may your lum reek.

Big Time Now!

Lilly started preschool today!

This whole photo shoot idea was too funny to her.  

 Lilly is in the Blue Room this year.

Her teachers

Today the students did a school scavenger hunt with their parents.  Lilly loved finding everything on our sheet and playing with it all along the way!

Her class...these pictures were taking when the teachers came during the home visits.

After such a great first day, we went out to celebrate with smoothies!

Whew, such a great morning!

She's big time now!

Miss Diva was able to share a few words with the paparazzi...

When I grow up I want to be a worker.  Like in a office with Daddy.

My favorite colors are pink and purple.

My favorite food is pasta.

I like to play princesses.

:) 

Oh Summer Please Don't Go!

The end of summer is always hard for me.  I LOVE my summers off with the kids and this summer was especially fun!  We filled our days with tons of activities, camps, swim lessons and a couple of special vacations.  Lilly is counting down the days until her first day of preschool, but I'm counting down the days until my next long weekend with these two goof balls.  xxoo

This summer Lilly learned how to ride her tricycle all by herself!

While Kenneth took two naps a day, Lilly and I did A LOT of "projects".  Here we made GAK!

Little Buddy had a very exciting summer, with his big accomplishment being WALKING.  He also worked on those McKenzie verbal skills...this boy can really talk!  We have lost count of all the words he can say (he's a little parrot) but he's stringing sentences together already.

"Mommy, I silly!"

"I wuv you, Lilly."

and the one we hear 1,000 times in a day, "I want more crackers!"

We all loved being outside as much as possible.  Daddy sure loves sidewalk chalk.

Kenneth runs and jumps now!

With school starting Lilly and Kenneth helped me with my class's Share Bear.

Kenneth really got into the sharing part.

We were able to celebrate William's 1st birthday!  The 3 Amigos are pretty fun together!

Everyone loved the cake at the party!

"Daddy, I'll be driving us to Miss Gabby's today."

The best part of the summer was seeing these two become buddies!