teddy bear picnic

Friday Micah had a Teddy Bear Picnic at school and the parents/siblings were invited as well. He informed me on Thursday that his teacher told them they could bring any animal so George got to go :) They sang a couple of songs and he actually sang and did the moves with a smile on his face. BIG DEAL! After we sat on our picnic blankets and ate pizza. Connor was so excited to watch Micah sing and watching the two of them sit and eat together cracked me up. Pretty much because one (connor) is a nut and the other (micah) sets him up to be one.

crafting and catapults

Since Micah has started going to pre K every morning for school I've missed him. It's strange having him not here which just means Kindergarten next year might put me in some kind of miniature depressive state ;) Of course there will be a 9 month old around to take up a lot of time so maybe it won't be all bad. Anyway, on the days that Connor goes to school also I make sure Micah and I have a fun one on one activity to do together. I had gone to Michaels this morning and found some cool wooden models to paint and put together so today he painted what would become a catapult while I sat with him and made magnet letters to mark their 'school' stuff. We just sat and talked and had the best time :)

Crafts In Progress

Catapult in action

Our 'school' magnets

chocolate joker

rocket man

Micah and I spent the afternoon turning his box play house into a box rocket ship! It's amazing what you can do with cardboard and packing tape :) He had a blast playing and even added some personal touches of his own. Like...

a rocket ship nose like an airplane has

a transformer button that changes the rocket into any kind of transportation

a flight log (my term he called it a piece of paper) to right down where you're going. It's covered in tape so he can you a dry erase marker on it which he thought was amazing!

And there's the cute, imagintative pilot!

fireman

Just because he's so darn cute :)

connor's first day

Connor had his first day today. He will be going on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It started out as we expected, with tears, but thankfully our friend Rebekah works at the school and he knows her from church so she was able to calm him down. Apparently he threw himself into her arms! When he got home he told me, "I cried to Beka." bless him! Otherwise they said he had a great day until he had a stinky diaper and didn't want them to change him. He told them "No change britches!" They did anyway of course and we I picked him up the first thing he said was "Mama change britches, no they change britches!" Mercy me!

Before you think I spent the day eating bon bons think again. My Tuesday and Thursdays from now until boy #3 are already pretty booked with doctors appointments, dentist appointments, grocery shopping and every other errand I have to do so that all my other time is completely free for fun with my fellas. For example today I spent the whole time putting the first coat of paint on the baby boy's room. I do hope I can get some craftiness ESPECIALLY SCRAPPING done so that I'm all caught up before I add another book in to the mix.

pre k

Micah started Pre K today at First Methodist in Covington (same school as last year). He will be going 5 days a week from 9:00-12:45. I seriously can not believe he'll be in Kindergarten next year! Yesterday was Open House and Micah was very nervous. He was holding up fine until we actually walked in the room and then he burst into tears. After about 10 minutes I was able to calm him down enough to tell him I was going to the bathroom and I'd be right back. Technically it was a big fat lie but he let me out of the room and then was fine. Today he said he was a little bit ok but once we got there he put his stuff away, walked right in and gave us a wave. Big brave boy!

p.s. I got the idea for the first two pictures from pinterest. I'm planning to take a pictures of him holding his 'grade' every year. Once we get to high school he'll probably complain but he'll get over it!