school

No outside pictures because it rained the first day of school. That seemed appropriate. That was about how we were feeling. "We" being everyone in the family except Claire.

showing off her new dress

saying good-bye to Max

excited to be back at school!

school days

It's that time again. Another school year has begun. Obviously, I no longer have any say in what the boys wear the first day of school. But that's ok, because I still have Claire...

And Claire always loves what I pick out for her, because it is always a dress, and she still prefers to wear a dress over anything else. This year she got a new backpack...

and new shoes. She loves them both.

Label envy

The other night Allen spruced up my blog and added some gadgets on the sidebar. As he was adding the "label" bar, he noticed he only had one label. I tried to reassure him that this was mainly for my memories about the kids, but he still looked envious.

So, here is a memory of Allen. Last Saturday he spent 3 hours helping me with a yucky statistics class I am taking. He is a very good teacher and helped me get the big picture. I am grateful for this wonderful husband. He also has listened to me talk about other classes I've taken, like Psychology of Gender. A subject that I find very interesting and he has no interest at all. But he sat there and listen to me tell him "interesting"things I was learning. Things like, Female patients are more likely to have tests ordered for them by female doctors than by male doctors. Isn't that interesting? And because of these great qualities of Allen, it is easier for me to look past the growing pile of dirty clothes on the bedroom floor or the sweaty basketball clothes over the tub that are still sitting there 3 days later. Balance is the name of the game I guess.

Do you feel better now Allen? I hope so.

claire's first day of pre-k

A week after the boys headed to school, it was finally Claire's turn. It about killed her to wait. She loves school. I loved her first day of school outfit-the ice cream cones are too cute. Claire was not nervous at all, just excited. She marched right in the room and her day was made even brighter as she saw that the class was having cereal and milk! What could be better for her...school and food! I kissed her goodbye and left her to fully enjoy her great fortune.

I picked up the boys first so they could come in and pick her up on her first day. As we walked into the class room, they were having a snack of apple slices. Claire looked at us, and then at her apples and then back at us. You could see her indecision...family-food-family-food?? Poor girl was being tortured until I said she could take the apples with her. Then she smiled and pick up her apples and ran to us with her arms open for a hug.

She had a great day and told me that she won the puzzle race. You go girl!

first day of school and Jared's b-day

Yesterday was the first day of school AND Jared's birthday (8 years old). Jared wasn't too thrilled about this fact, but he was dealing with it. What he wasn't prepared for was waking up that morning and feeling a little bit more than a nervous stomach, he felt the real thing-the tummy bug! On the first day of school AND his birthday! Poor guy. So, as we took pictures of Carter, Jared was inside with the "sick bowl" and then the he had to ride in the car as I took Carter to school. Poor guy.

Carter had a great first day of school and the only thing he deemed important enough to tell us about it was that he got ice cream at the end. Finally at 6pm Jared was feeling good enough to open his presents and eat some soup instead of birthday cake. Poor guy.

But, today was a new day and Jared was dressed and eating breakfast by time I came out the kitchen. And he declared that he only had a nervous stomach today. So we snapped a picture of him and went to school. I am about to go pick the boys up, and I'm sure he will give me as much information about his first day as Carter did.