Lil' Miss Lis

Can't you see why we love this little girl? Lissy is such a sweet little baby. She is now 3-months-old. The past few days she has been experimenting with rolling over! YIKES! She loves tummy time. We have this soft turtle book that has different rattles and sounds, and she will play with that thing for quite a while. Then, somehow, I don't even think she realizes what is happening, she ends up on her back! She loves to talk with her fingers in her mouth, or anything else that she can grab. She sleeps in her crib almost all night (we had to say goodbye to her sweet cradle), eating around 5:00 am. She absolutely hates car rides! And, she loves watching her brothers.

I just can't look at her enough. I want to remember everything about her tiny little body! While playing, singing, giving kisses, Lissy will hold her mouth open like a little bird! She is just cute as heck! We love our Lissy girl!

Joy School

This year Garrett gets to go to Joy School. Boy, is he ever excited about it, more importantly, about his new Go, Diego, Go backpack! He has been 2 different times. The first day was all about the letter A. And, the second day was the beginning of B. Garrett is starting to recognize those letters as we practice our homework each day. I am so grateful for good friends who have joined forces with me to help our kids get a jumpstart with school. I love this shot of Garrett and his best buddy, Micah. As I was taking a picture of Garrett's first day of Joy School, Micah saw the camera and ran over as quick as he could to just barely make it in the picture! These 2 little boys truly are best friends! I am so glad that they get to go to school together!
Micah and Garrett

We Have Lawn!

It doesn't look like a lot, but it actually covers the length of the house!
It's not much to look at yet, but neither are tumbleweeds!

Have you ever done this scenorio? You purposefully put your to-do pile on your bed or kitchen counter thinking you'll get to it sooner that way, but it never gets done. Yep, I do it all the time with my laundry on my bed, eventually it ends up on the floor or elsewhere. You'd think that I would learn, wouldn't you!

My friends had went through this same thing, but with gravel on their driveway. This last week they have finally made it to their gravel pile, cutting up grass where they don't want it. So, their nightmare has now become our blessing! Travis had to do it alone. The boys and I tried to help, but the grass was sooooo very heavy, we couldn't do much. The boys got to ride in the back of the truck and that was way cool!

First Day of 1st Grade

1st grade...New Teacher...Same Friends...School lunch...Recess...All-Day School...YIKES!!

Our wonderful (not!) school district has chosen to do their back to school night AFTER the first day of school so, needlesstosay, the first day was a complete madhouse! We had to first find Wyatt's name on 1 of 4 lists of students; next, we had to find the classroom in the midst of all of the other confused parents; then after dropping Wyatt off, Garrett, Lissy, and I had to make our way to the lunch room to get Wyatt a pass and he still came home hungry because he didn't know how it all worked. I was one frazzled mom by the end of that morning. And that was just the morning.

So, at 2:05 I get a phone call from Wyatt's school, "Um, Mrs Golding, school let out at 1:30 today and I have your son here in the office." WHAT???!!! I could not believe it! A note would have helped, or a big sign on the front doors or some clue that I was supposed to pick up my son early. I was not the only parent oblivious to the early out day. The lobby was full of kids! What a joke!

Even after such a hectic day, Wyatt seemed to like his teacher and he is enjoyed seeing all of his old friends. And, we made a special trip to Boise to see the new Star Wars movie, which the boys loved!

I take Wyatt to school at 8:00am every morning because I refuse to make him catch the 6:45am bus for school that starts at 8:30am. Come on the kid is only 6-years-old, and he is NOT an early riser! He is now riding the bus home, well in 2 weeks he has only riden it home on 2 different occasions. But the opportunity is there to ride the bus home.

As for school lunch, there is nothing that I could make that would be better than school lunch. I don't get it either, but at least he is eating something.