Popsicles make it all better

I'm loving the weather now that it's a little cooler in the morning and evening. I really love fall and its starting to feel more like it. I'm loving all the Halloween costumes and sweaters in the stores now. I feel like fall is more of a beginning to the year rather than an end. Spring feels like and end to me -- the end of winter. I do know, however, that fall means that summer is over. And once it's not horribly hot, I do really enjoy summertime activities.

Like the ice cream man in your neighborhood. Although Jack had a yellow today, I bought him a popsicle from the ice cream man. His behavior was so good after school and through dinner. He did a great job doing a PowerPoint to study his challenge list spelling words. And I know I'm not winning any mother-of-the-year awards for allowing him to have candy corn after dinner and then letting him have a popsicle, but sometimes you just have to enjoy the moment. So that's what we did. The three of us had popsicles on the front porch.



Now, there's only the cute ones in the picture. I had my mini bomb pop while I was taking their pictures. They ate just enough of the popsicles to allow me to snap a few pictures. We put the rest of his in the freezer and threw hers away. Thank goodness all the red stuff washed off her face and hands in the bath! Just wiping her with a wet towel afterwards didn't quite cut it.

So, we enjoyed a little bit more of summer today before it's gone. Popsicles, bubbles, chalk, soccer in the backyard, and a walk. I'm loving that it's not so hot, and I'm looking forward to pumpkins, Halloween, football, sweaters...

Great Monday except for the bite and toddler crabiness

I had to wake the kids up this morning because both were sleepy heads. However, breakfast went well. Jack finished his check list. We made it to the bus on time. I made it to work.

Work is very busy right now. I have taken on an additional product and my existing product has lots of changes due to new legislation that was signed by the President over a week ago. Craziness!

Anyway, Jack stayed on green today and we studied his challenge list of spelling words. Kate was bitten at day care, though, and it's a pretty nasty bite. It's going to be a big bruise. Then she was crabby at soccer practice, but I think that might have been my fault. The playground equipment on the school grounds is way too big for her. I let her play for a while, but I took her back to the fields when things started to get a little to scary for me.

All in all, it was a good start to the week. I just hope her leg doesn't hurt too much. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he'll stay on green all week.

Sad news

I am a huge fan of the Dave Matthews Band. Sadly, LeRoi Moore, the saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, passed away from injuries related to an ATV accident he had in June.

I saw him play live with DMB 16 times. He was not on the tour this summer due to his accident.

My thoughts and prayers are with the band and LeRoi's family. He will be missed.

We made it through the first week of school

I'd like to say that we had an entirely "green" week (and those of you with kids in school or day care know what I mean by green), but we didn't. On Wednesday, one of Jack's classmates hit J. with his lunch box while they were waiting in line for lunch. So, my son hit him with his lunch box. That means yellow. And then on Thursday, J. was tipping his chair back. He received a warning from the teacher. Later he did it again and his chair fell over. Luckily, he wasn't hurt, but it earned him a yellow. After being "unplugged" both afternoons, he managed a green on Friday. And the good news was today was green too!

Little man brought home a book he made about himself today. Great drawings in it!
My favorite color is blue.
My eyes are blue.
My hair is brown.
He drew a picture of our family and our house.
My favorite food is pizza (spelled pesu).
My favorite ice cream is chocolate (spelled chocle).
I like to play out side (with the "d" in side backwards, so it's outsibe).



I love that I was able to cut my work schedule back so that I can spend more time with the kids in the morning and afternoon. I can get my son on the bus and then head to work. While I was making the kids breakfast this morning, I snapped this picture of them reading together. So cute! It's nice to have a little extra time so that we aren't rushing and the kids can share special moments like this.



We had another soccer practice tonight. K. had fun sitting in her little chair and playing with her mini soccer ball.

It's going to be a busy week. We have meet the teacher night this week, J. has a playdate with his best friend, and the kids and I are going to my friends house for dinner on Friday. Plus, we need to get some pool time in before it closes for the summer. I'd like to get some scrapping done, but the scrapping closet is a mess! I have to clean first.

Hope you have a good week!

Busy, busy, busy - birthday parties, end of summer, start of school

It has been a while since I've posted. Not much on the scrapbooking front. I've got to get my scrap closet cleaned out so I can catch up on projects! We have been very busy the last few weeks.


We celebrated the boy's 7th birthday with a Spiderman-themed birthday party at our house.


Eating ice cream gave K. something to smile about! It's kind of a scary smile, though.


Then we had a Star Wars-themed party for his friends from school at a local arcade. Nothing beats a cake with black icing!


We took a day off to go to the fair. We found out that a boy donkey is called a "jack" and this farm had a jack for sale, so we had to get his picture with the sign!! You can tell that he is thrilled.


And finally, today was the first day of first grade. He looked so grown up and was very excited to go to school.

What have you been up to?