Zoo pictures

I took Conner and Sidney to the zoo this morning. It was as this picture appears, we were practically the only ones there at 9:00!! Perfect timing!

 

Conner loved taking care of his sister. She adores her big brother!

 

My attempts at professional photog....

 

 

Misc from the weekend

This is an example of a Dora trance....

 

Grandma and Grandpa visited this past weekend and brought the convertable. The older kids got to joy ride to get ice cream on Sunday. They loved it!

 

The kids discovered new Croc accessories!! Tinker toys.

 

 

1st day of Kindergarten

Well, it is official, I have a Kindergartener!!! Can you believe it? I can't! Linlee had her 1st day yesterday with just the girls. Today was the 1st official day with everyone. They kicked off the morning with a Boo Hoo Breakfast for the parents and children. Very cute. We then took pictures, read a story and said our goodbyes. I was just fine and did not shed a tear until the ride home while reading a poem from the teacher. Thanks Mrs. Barclay...
Linlee loves school and is so excited!!!






The whole class! (all 9 of them!)



Conner's excitement for the day!

Children Updates

LINLEE
Linlee took an Iron Chef Jr class at church and just finished last week. They had lots of fun and made very yummy treats. Here she is in all her gear.


Life is starting to get a lot busier these days with school starting to gear up. Linlee has her first day on the 20th this week. She is soooo excited!! We had meet the teacher yesterday. She will have Mrs Barclay this year. She seems very nice and organized. We can't wait! We also have decided to start letting Linlee earn commission for chores (aka allowance) this week. We spent yesterday making out her chore chart and she will earn 5 cents per chore per day. I bought her this piggy bank that is divided into 3 categories, bank, store, church. We thought now that she is a new Christian and is old enough to understand, it would be a good time to start teaching her about money. She seems excited. I will of course post pics on the 1st day of school...

CONNER

Oh Conner, he is as much fun/trouble as ever. On Monday I was busy cooking supper and he walked in per usual asking for a snack. I told him no because he had already had one after nap and because I was working on supper. He left and I thought went back into the office with the other 2. A few minutes later, I caught a blur running past the dining room door. I called out Conner's name and he slowly walked in with a big box of Whoppers in his hand!! His cheeks were filled to the max and he looked like a chipmunk. OH BOY!! I made him spit them out and sent him to his room. Later that night, he was caught in a lie and got the usual punishment ( a good dose of Tabasco..) Only, Ben gave him a lot more than I usually do and he drank so much water that he threw up. Tough day for that little boy.

SIDNEY

Little miss Sidney has worked on tooth numbers 3,4,5, and 6 for the last few weeks. I caught sight of number 7 and 8 this morning. 6 teeth in 4 weeks has been relatively tough, but no baby dentures in our future!! hooray!
Earlier this week, we went on our post dinner walk and Ben and I were swining her between us. On one particular swing, her arm popped. She came unglued!! After about 20 minutes of hard crying, I finally got her calmed down and in bed. I did notice that she wasn't moving her arm and thought I would see if she slept ok. I just knew it was broken with our track record... anyway. She slept well and woke up fine. Still not moving her arm though. I decided to take her to see the Dr and he said it was Nursemaid's Elbow (dislocated). He popped it back in and all was well. DRAMA!
She is very much a busy body these days. Between her and Conner, I have lots of "how did that get in here?" and "where did that come from?" moments... My house will never be the same.

We had a great playdate last week with the Kirby and Fish children. We met them at the mall and rode the train, carousel and played in the play area. Crazy with 8 kids 5 and under!!! Enjoyable though!






WEll that's it for now...

Sidney's 18 month stats

At 18 months old, Sid weighs 21 lb 12 oz (25%) and is 31.5 inches tall (50%). She is cutting 2 more top teeth and 1 bottom tooth right now. She fell and scraped her left knee on the way into the dr office so we had crying pretty much from start to finish. However, we now have matching knee scrapes, bandaids on both legs from shots and a hand bobo. She looks rough right now. All comes with age.

Todd, April and Ava visit.

My brother and his family came up to visit this past weekend. The kids were so excited to have them! My niece Ava is 2 months older than Sidney. Sidney battled an issue with personal space invasion all weekend, but as these pics show, they did have a few ok moments together. Ava was a doll and had a great time. She was very well behaved and soo sweet. Linlee and Conner just adored playing with her. We spent Sat morning at the spray park, then attempted to have pictures made at Portrait Innovations that afternoon. This didn't happen because they were soooo crowded. We had an appointment, but it really didn't seem to matter, so we decided it wasn't worth it. We did try to take some on our own, but not everyone wanted to cooporate. I will have to get those pics from Todd...





We got a sitter to watch the kids that night and the adults went out to dinner. Such a great idea because we really haven't had a chance to do that with Todd and April without kids involved. After dinner at Molly's (yum yum) we went bowling until about 11:30!!! So much fun (especially since I had the highest score of the night....:)) We were sad to see them go this am!!

The park and Belated 18 month birthday

Today I took the kids to the playground and we had a picnic. It is a great shaded place to play. Alecia and her gang joined us for a little while. Got a few pretty good pics.





I totally forgot on the 1st that my "baby" was officially 1 1/2 years old. I didn't even think about it until the 3rd!!! BAD MOMMY!! Lots on my mind apparently. We go to the Dr on the 10th for our updated stats. She is well on her way to a full set of teeth with 2 more cutting through this week. Fun....