With my computer issues, it's hard to get to these posts, but I do take Evie's chair photos each month. I'll go back and add her stats and milestones later, just for her to have and read later. But for now, here are each month's photos. It's hard to not share when she's so cute. Sorry for clogging everyone's feed. ;)
I took my little birdies to Denton yesterday. We went to Recycled Books and Records to get Sam his first reading reward for the summer. He chose an old Syd Hoff book, The Horse in Harry's Room and then the kids did their general running-around there, mostly in between the shelves in the reading nooks with the awesome green shag carpeting. We were all starving after playing around at the bookstore so it didn't take much convincing from Sam for me to make our next stop J&J's Pizza. They have a booth now, right by the big window, so of course, we had to sit there - great light!
After lunch we walked around the courthouse, as we always do, and Sam slid down the concrete staircase railings and chased squirrels around the lawn. We decided to pop into the old-fashioned candy shop, but just to look! Our last stop was a store called "Scrap Denton" where people can donate fabric, yarn, and other craft supplies they don't need so that people can purchase them inexpensively for whatever project they're working on. We found a tub of bottlecaps in between the wine corks and the random puzzle pieces, and since Sam has started a collection we had to grab some, especially at only 25 cents a handful! I grabbed a handful and counted them - about twenty - then put them back and told him to pick out his favorite twenty. He was excited to find one with a Texas! All that made for a busy afternoon for us, so we headed home for naptime, all of us (but especially Mama)
completely exhausted
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We headed out to the Frisco library on our first day of summer. We saw two of Sam's preschool teachers there, too! We were all looking for some new titles for our library book baskets.
Let the summer reading begin!
Sam in his room, playing on my phone while he waits for me to finish getting ready for the day. He decided to move his table the other day and create a little office area for himself by his bed. Each day he adds more treasures to his desktop display. He's very proud of it and has been working there quite a bit the last couple of days.
Last t-ball practice of the season, rounding third, heading for home plate!
Evelyn loves my old Sesame Street clubhouse as much as Sam did (and still does), but she gets so frustrated with this little guy when she tries to take his hat off - the hat that's molded to his head. Such a determined little person.
I am a Promise. I am a Possibility
I am a Promise. With a capital "P".
I am a great big bundle of Potentiality.
I can go anywhere that He wants me to go.
I can be anything He wants me to be.
I can climb the high mountains. I can cross the wide sea.
I'm a great big promise, you see!
I am a Promise. I am a Possibility
I am a Promise. With a capital "P".
I am a great big bundle of Potentiality.
by Bill and Gloria Gaither
Gram sang this song to Mommy when she was a Prestonwood preschooler.
Sam sang this song at his Prestonwood preschool graduation ceremony.
He has his diploma and is a Kindergartner now and we've said our goodbyes to teachers and friends.
Needless to say there have been many tears this past week.
Congratulations to Sam. Prestonwood loved you and thought you were "Samtastic".
And we think you have oodles of Promise, Possibility and Potentiality - with a capital P!
Well, this was a fairly lucky shot! I was sitting on the patio, looking at the little sprouting seeds in Sam's veggie garden, when Evie leaned over to smell our herbs. I had my camera in my lap and snapped as fast as I could. I wonder if I could get her to do it again, she looks so sweet.
Evelyn had the time of her life playing in her little pool yesterday. I put her birthday slide in there and she went down that thing continuously for over an hour. I have so many pictures of her laughing as she hit the water that it was hard to choose which ones to share. I think this set tells the story perfectly - this is one happy kid!
Not only does she sweep, folks, she empties the diswasher, too. The minute she hears me pull down the door, she stops whatever she's doing and makes a bee-line for the kitchen. She gets so excited! I pull out the steak knives, paring knives and flatware knives and she immediately starts in on the remaining silverware. She knows all the drawers and cabinets and where everything goes. I never showed her the measuring cup drawer or the cabinet where we keep the coffee drip cone, but somehow she knows! Such a smart and helpful little girl. Mommy's little shadow!
Thanks, Evelyn! What would I do without your help?
It's official - Sam's registered for Kindergarten. We've been to the school three times now; twice for some mini-orientations and another to drop off registration paperwork. He's always excited to go and in a good mood when we leave, but has also mentioned each time that he's a little "ner-vousth" about going to Kindergarten. I'll bet that when the big day arrives that feeling will last about five minutes. :)
Big brothers think of the coolest stuff to do. While I was cleaning up the breakfast dishes one morning last week I heard a crazy cackle coming from my room. Sam had taken every pillow in the house and made a giant pillow bed on the floor of my bedroom and, to Evie, it was the greatest thing she had ever seen. She rolled and flopped and cackled on that thing for the longest time and later on that day took a whopper of a nap! Thank you Sam!
This young lady woke me up at six in the morning wanting to dance. As soon as I picked her up out of her crib she bopped her little head, pointed to the living room and said "dah? dah?".
I can beam kids' dance videos to the television through an app on my phone. She loves it and it's hilarious to watch her groove to the beat, but this six a.m. dance party made for a very long day.
