Noah's First Day of Pre-K

Well we all survived Noah's first day of Pre-K.  :)  Talk about the weirdest and most sad thing ever!  He's just growing up WAY too fast and today just proved that even more blatantly.  :(

He woke up excited and ready to go this morning.  So after getting dressed in his new clothes and taking his new shoes with him, he went downstairs and saw that a surprise was waiting outside on the porch for him:

After that, it was breakfast, along with his favorite kind of doughnut - to help make the morning extra special:

Then, of course, we had to take the obligatory pictures:

And then we headed off to school - 2 out of the 3 of us had lumps in our throats......

But he was excited to be there, excited to stay, said he had a great day and couldn't wait to go back on Thursday!  :)  Hopefully he always stays this excited about school.

Tonight, we finished the night off on a high note and celebrated his first successful (and great!) day at school by going to a "special dinner" and bowling!  The Bass Pro Shop by our house has THE coolest bowling alley inside the neatest restaurant that serves some pretty darn good food.  He was elated and probably would have played more games if we had let him!  :)

We'd say it was a pretty good day.  :)

4 Months Old!

So we now have a 4-month-old on our hands.  A 4-month-old who would very much like to be 4-YEARS-old so she can keep up with her brother!  This little girl keeps us on our toes and never ceases to amaze us. :)  Here's a few things about her in the last month, with some very adorable pictures to follow:

* One week into being 3-months-old, she rolled from front to back - then took off rolling back to front like a champ.  She now rolls all the way across the room!  It's hard keeping her on her back like a "baby" anymore.  ;)
* She tries SO hard to crawl and moves her arms and legs in such a way that it probably won't be much longer before she does.
* She LOVES to sleep on her belly.  You rarely can keep this girl on her back to sleep.
* We started rice cereal a few days ago - she absolutely loves it and did much better than Noah did.
* She's super chatty.  If you'll listen, she'll talk!
* We have done away with swaddling since she gets out of it (and has rolled IN it) like a baby Hulk.  Needless to say, sleep hasn't been AS good these days.  :/
* She has been known to throw mini temper tantrums (yes, already!) and sometimes is mouthy - which is hysterical. ;)

BIG Things

Big things usually happen in August for us - but this year, they're even bigger!  Unfortunately there's not much time to sit and blog in detail about them, so we'll try to play catch-up real quick.  :)

Greg turned 35 this month.  Mid 30's - wow!  That's a big thing.  Crazy, but incredibly blessed.

We hit the 10-year mark of being married.  TEN!
We had plans to be here right now:

But instead, we had her:

So.... we'll try again in a couple of years.  ;)  For now, we plan to celebrate on a couple of different days and just enjoy the rare moments alone.


"Welcome to School" night for Noah was tonight - meeting the teacher, seeing his classroom, finding his cubby, figuring out how things will work, checking the school out, etc - things are starting to get real now. Greg is taking the day off from work on Tuesday (his first day) to help make the day extra special and exciting.

Emma will be turning 4-months-old.  More on THAT in tomorrow's blog post!

Big things this month.  Big, busy and blessed would be the best way to describe it. :)