Toothless

Jack lost his first tooth on Tuesday night!  It became loose Sunday morning and he was pretty excited.  He has been asking when he would lose his first tooth.  I noticed it was pretty mobile, so after a few attempts, I managed to pull it out.  He put it under his pillow and got a $1 from the daddy-fairy.  We don't do the tooth fairy, and he knew that, but it was still fun to put it under his pillow.  We then had to show everyone at school and let our family know.  Our baby is growing up!

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Jack's first official field trip was to the pumpkin patch.  K4 and K5 went, so the triplets also came.  It was a little chilly, but we had fun and the kids loved playing around with the pumpkins.  Jack's favorite part was building a pumpkin fort.  I am so thankful that I get to go on field trips with my kids.  They love it when I am there and it is really special to share in these fun times.

Fall 2013 Has Arrived

Well, it still may be 85 degrees and we may have a hurricane this weekend, but fall is here.  We've had some less frizzy hair days with lower humidity and some comfortable temperatures.  With this fall came soccer for Jack.  He really seems to enjoy it.  He has practice for 1 hour a week and then a game on Saturday morning at 8:30.  The season only lasts 8 weeks, so it isn't too intensive or inconvenient.  He looks forward to practice and the games.

We are making our way through homeschool too.  I like to take Jack to do something once a week for our homeschool days, so since he is studying pumpkins/seeds/fall at school, we went on a pumpkin scavenger hunt at the local pumpkin patch.

While we were there, Jack wanted to get a pumpkin for Kate.  They both have upcoming pumpkin patch field trips, but we got some small ones and I let them paint them.  Kate, being my little artist, sure liked painting her pumpkin.

Late September Adventures

Kate takes after me.  The girl loves to sleep.  Not naps, per say, but I have to wake her up almost every morning for school.  The last few nights, I've walked in and saw her in some weird positions.  Most notably was last night.  I checked in on her and I did not see her in the bed.  Needless to say, she was found somewhere else...

I guess the giant unicorn won.

Kate had Apple and Red Day at school and she dressed herself.

In other news, Jack and I are loving homeschool days (Thursday and Friday).  His science homework today was to plant seeds of a vegetable and help it grow.  We headed to Lowes and bought some carrot and radish seeds, pots and soil.  I "encouraged" him to get the ones that had the quickest growth, so hopefully, we will see something in a month or so.

Since he is a "red-shirted" kindergartner, I supplement with some extra work/projects for school and we do a little more than his regular homework.  Today in History, we were discussing national symbols and since this kid loves, err, is obsessed, with animals, we made an eagle shirt with handprints and puffy paint.  I filled in the white on the head, but he did the rest.  He's really excited to wear it soon.

Rain, Rain, Let's Go Play

We had one of those unusual rains on Saturday with no lightening, so Craig took the kids outside to "play in the rain"!  Fall is here now and hopefully, we will have some new, cooler weather.  Fat chance in the south, so maybe in November.

Fearless 4 Year Old

Kate started VPK (aka 4 year old preschool) a few weeks back!  She was ready to go, but also seemed like she was enjoying her summer vacation too.  Now that we are back into routine, I think she is adjusting well to school and seems to enjoy her new friends and loves her teacher, Ms. Cindy.  She doesn't seem to want to wake up to go to school, but when I pick her up, she says, "I had a great day".

The next day, Kate officially turned 4.  We have a very spirited, or should I say, strong-willed, independent girl on our hands, but she is such a blessing.  We went for her 4 year check up and she is a healthy girl.

Hunting/Hello Kitty Party

This year we chose a low-key party for the August birthday twins.  Last year we threw 2 birthdays in two weekends.  What.Was.I.Thinking?  Anyway, Jack opted for a hunting themed birthday and Kate loves her some Hello Kitty.  We went to local park, invited some great close friends and ate cupcakes.  It was pretty great and the kids seemed to have a great time.