D is for Dinosaur

I love the girls' daycare!  Yesterday when I picked them up, Hannah had this "artwork" and these pictures to show me what she's been doing.

Yes, that's a paintbrush and a puzzle in front of our 4 month old daughter.  LOL  There are only 2 babies enrolled in her class right now so I guess they've been playing around and having fun with them.  They have definitely worn her out!

Back to School

We're all back in school and it's going great!  Katie got to spend 1 more week with her teacher from last spring who she absolutely loves and then moved up to a new classroom.  Her new room is a lot more structured with center time, a word and letter of the week, Friday show and tell, scheduled potty breaks, etc.  So far she's done well in there, but after just a week and a half back she's got her cold she gets every year in school and got strep throat last week. 

Heading to school on their 1st day back.  Katie couldn't wait to go see Miss Charlie and her friends!

Hannah is at daycare with Katie and doing well.  Her teacher said she rolled over, but we still haven't seen her do it yet.  She doesn't nap much at school (just like her sister), but sleeps great at night.  So far there have just been 2 babies in her room but a couple more are coming this week, I think.

I started back with kids this week too.  I finally got to move back to kindergarten and I'm exhausted and have my annual back to school cold too, but I'm LOVING kindergarten.  I knew I missed it, but now that I'm back, I realize I missed kindergarten more than I thought.  It's going to be a great year for all of us.

Hannah

Sleeping with her watchdog watching over her.

Yummy hands.  She loves chewing on her hands.



Sea Life Aquarium

We finally took Katie to the aquarium tonight!  I've been wanting to take her to an aquarium since last summer.  She LOVED it!  Great aquarium!

Lots of fun little places to see the fish.

Fun little "fin facts" throughout the aquarium.

Really cool shart tank tunnel with a glass floor!

"Shark Tank" look out area with more glass floors.

"Petting" area where the kids can touch the sea stars.

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On our way home, Katie made up a really pretty song for us.  :)

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Stress Free Potty Training

We've been potty training Katie (sort of).  We're giving Katie the opportunity to use the potty but not really pushing her too much.  She's doing pretty good but wants her reward (candy and a Veggie Tales silly banz bracelet) so she will sit on the potty for up to an hour just waiting to go so she can get candy.  Ha! 

One day this week I went to check on her after she had been in there a while and this is what I found.  LOL

I joined a mom group that has lots of events and they give away a lot of free stuff at every event.  Today I went to my first event, "Stress Free Potty Training".  The speaker was a co-author of the book and was pretty good.  Everyone at the event got everything you see here in a goody bag except for the potty seat.  There were lots of different kinds of those and everyone got to pick one out to take home.  Awesome!

We also got these cute "Baby Legs" in our goody bag!

I can't wait to go to another one of these events!



Top Golf

I found a new date place for me and Andy... Top Golf.  We went with some friends and had a really fun time.  It's a lot like bowling, but with golf.  It's a 3 story place and you try to hit the golf balls into big targets, earning points for how close you get it to the bullseye in your target.  So much fun and I don't golf at all!



National Night Out

We met some new neighbors at a block party for National Night Out this week.  Fun times...

Hannah loves looking at herself in the mirror and smiles and makes faces at herself.  :)

She actually loved the bounce house this time!

Some firemen came and let the kids see the fire truck!

Yes, slip n slide in her regular clothes.  We didn't know they were going to have water games there.

Checkin out the "buffet"...