this baby is ready to go. Bottle, camera, phone, and glasses. Defiently a Diva in the making

Its official....

My little man headed off to school this morning. Yesterday he met his teacher. She seems really nice. His classroom had a great set up. He loved it there. We stayed awhile so he could play with some of the toys. He got upset when it was time to go. He was hoping to stay. So he was ready to go back this morning. Drop off went well. I had him lead us to the classroom since he will be on his own to find his way to the class after i drop him off. there are lots of turns and hallways, but he did pretty good. When getting to class he sat in his seat and got to color. He said bye to us. He was fine...which i figured. Brooke was a little upset about leaving him. She saw he was getting to color and she too wanted too. So she came home and painted 2 pictures of bunnies and 3 pictures of flowers. So, its official....Ethan is a kindergartener! Now i had hoped for a nice quite day, but i forgot Brooke was here. She is the noise maker! Atleast i shouldn't have to hear fighting until after 3:00.

Off to do house chores. Blah!

'twas the day before kindergarden

Tomorrow is the big day....Kindergarden! By all means i am so excited. 1 kid to have in the house sounds great. But i am also excited for Ethan. He loves to socialize. Its his nature. He loves kids. He will play with anyone and loves everyone. We had a few playdates this summer with friends. But nothing is like school when he gets to be around those his age. He loves to be center of attention. He is a Leo after all. School is the perfect opportunity. From what we think, Ethan is a leader, not a follower. He loves to instigate and get others to do the things he wants done but hopes not to get into trouble for. It will be intresting to see how all this plays out as he gets older.

So, am i starting to get sappy about him starting Pre-k. Ugh....hating to admit it but yes. I dont think i will cry. But now that it is the day before i am starting to get a little sad. Not like when he started Pre-k and was gone all day, but just that he is growing up. Its still shocking that i have a 5 year old! So, hopefully if tears are shed tomorrow it will be just a few. But only after he is gone.

Tonight we meet his new teacher. We recieved a call from her, so that was pretty neat.

So, the agenda today is

• Drs. apt at 10 (5 yr check up)
• Ethan desperatly needs a hair cut
• meeting ethan's teacher!

Be sure to come back tomorrow for that picture of him before school!

May the Force be with you!

So, Ethan is 5! YAY! it like a little milestone. He's 5! This year we skipped the party. Ethan was ok with it. We went to spend a day at Funopolis! Go Karts, bumper boats, arcade, putt putt! Duh...that is so much more fun then a birthday party. We thought about letting him invite a friend to go, but with Brooke it might have been a little much. There wasn't a whole lot there for her to do. She enjoyed the bowling though. Grammy was able to make it up. Which worked out really good, 3 adults and 2 kids. I feel like we were prepared to take on the place. So after a few hours of fun there we headed through the Mcdonalds drive thru for some dinner. We then headed home to eat and then present time!!! We kinda got a theme this year...star wars! Then Ethan got his first legos! And he loved them. So send all the legos this way....ok. :o) We got him the Star wars wii game and light sabers. then a small jeep lego. Grammy got him MEGATRON! (transformer) and a puzzle. Nana and Papa got him the Ice Age Wii game. Uncle Tom and Aunt Jess got him a green lego car. Ethan is a happy camper right about now. So now... we are on the count down to Kindergarden! Woooo hooo! I can't wait. He can't wait.

Happy Birthday Ethan! My little man is now 5! Pictures soon of a look back in his 4th year.

new blogs???

I need some new blogs to read. Anyone have any to suggest. i love to read about peoples day to day lives. That...or someone start one and let me read it.

What's been going on

Only a few more days and my little man Ethan will be 5! I am kinda excited. He has gotten to be so big and starting to get more in the independent foot. Not needing mommy for as much. Which i kinda like. The past 2 weekends the kids have been split up. My parents took each and left one with us. So they got spoiled at my parents and the one who was left here, well they got spoiled by us! So, they had 2 weekends of being spoiled. On Ethan's weekend here we took him to see transformers 2. He loved loved loved it! I have had several comments about how i could have taken him to a PG13 movie. Stuff about the language and so on. That movie was so action packed....he didn't even notice the bad words. Transformers 2 is non stop transformer action...which is just what he was wanting. We enjoyed it. It was a long movie. Over 2 hours and Ethan did fantastic for it. Near the end he got a little restless, but so was i. On Brooke's weekend with us, we really didn't know what to do with her. She is too little for a lot of places, so we decided to take her shopping! We took her to walmart to get a new toy. She had a whole list of what she wanted:

• a stuffed monkey
• a baby doll
• little pet shop
• polly pocket
• tinkerbell

And she loaded the whole cart with them. She thought she was going to get it all, but we only ended up with another new baby doll (like she doesn't already have 8 at home!) this new baby though is her KK's baby that she has been taking care of. However, this baby is a girl and her name is DeeDee. She has played with that baby non stop. it goes potty with her, she has to feed it. She loves it. I think she is ready for her new cousins!

We are getting ready for school to start on the 7th of August. Open house is the 6th and Ethan's 5 yr check up. Then his birthday this sunday. I am ready for school to start again! I know Ethan is too. He is getting so bored here. We have had a wonderful summer, but starting to run out of ideas. I guess mommy gets pretty boring after awhile.

I have been doing a lot of work though getting Ethan ready for school. We have been doing sight words. He has most of his pre-k words down now and we are working on kindergarden words now. We have been working on counting to 100. Brooke is starting to write her name. Or trying. We have been working on recognizing the letters a-f right now. She is now counting to 10.

So, that's whats been going on!