more park pics

Guess what two little climbing moneky kids had a ball today??? :) Olivia and Paul Thomas! We met up with a few new MOPS mom and kids friends today at one of our favorite parks. Do you see Paul Thomas climbing and swinging in the photos above???

and they both had fun with this huge anchor monument thing.... They started out playing peek-a-boo with me and the camera and then with each other. :) I wish you could hear the laughs and giggles they were sharing!

And take a look at this photo I took of Paul Thomas in front of the park gazebo - doesn't he look so little..? well see that big colorful pole behind the anchor? that is the different Hurricane Catagory Levels.
Red = Category 2
Yellow = Category 3
Blue = Category 4

Kinda scary when you really stop to think about it.. and how high the water did come in.

leaving the park to go home

What a fun play-date at the park with our new MOPS friends. I thought it would be impossible to get them to load up to leave but they fell pretty easily for the 'Nilla Wafer Cookie Bribe. So glad I had a box in the van! :P

When we got home, Olivia was all about "Me to it" meaning she wanted to get out of the van all by herself... and immediately wanted to get into her vehicles to drive back to the park :P

Paul Thomas was all smiles when I cam back out to the garage to get him second.. he was trying to hide behind the seatbelt thing and sliding door to yell "Arrrrgh!" at me and make me act scared - which he loved! I'm sure I looked pretty scary playing the roll with my frizzed out humidity hair. :P

It was a great day :)

No matter which one you look at - They all funny ;)

Nora and David after church today... :) I love my two funny faces!

A told B and B told C

Meet ya at the top of the coco nut tree!

Nora's class finished up their "Chica Chica Boom Boom" lesson this week and take a look at her beautiful artwork that she brought home today ;)

Tonight is her first night of Gymnastics class and also they are having a Girl Scout Round Up at her school. Thankfully David will be home in time for supper and then take Nora and the twins with him while I go find out more about Daisy Girl Scouts at school.

Nora is Registered for School

No one has been looking more forward to SCHOOL UNIFORMS than I have! Last year for Pre-K-4 the children could wear anything they wanted -and that is exactly what Nora Anne did - anything that she could choose to put together to drive me NUTS! :P I'm talking, things that ON PURPOSE didn't match! not even close.

At times I scared myself when I heard the words and tone of them coming out of my mouth as we tried to negotiate what she would wear in the mornings...or even the night before... I sounded like my own mother! LOL and what is so scary is that I remember me being about 12 or 13 when I went thru it... and Nora was only 4 last school year! *sigh*

Needless to say, Nora is happy to be getting in the mood to go back to school. Final Registration was the 3rd and 4th last week... and I was happy to purchase two "used" uniforms for only $5 each. I bought the smallest two I could find... the longer one I plan to turn up and hymn myself and hope that it doesn't get faded with washings so that I can let down as her legs grow.

So this week is our last "free week of summer vacation" as first day of Kindergarten is Monday the 17th. Hard to believe my little girl is already for this next big step in her life. I know she will have a great year with her teacher Mrs. Thompson and learn so much.

I'm really proud of the fact that she can already write all of her letters so well and also read. I love that I've been at home with her and have helped be my child's "first teacher" ;) all thanks to my thoughtful husband who was the one who made it all possible for me to do. ;) Thanks David!

Wordless Wednesday - 8/05/09

A Little Pizza, A Little Driving = a FUN Time