New Tricks

The kids have been learning lots of new tricks in this wonderful fall weather.  Izzy got it in her head last week that she needed her training wheels off..Once something gets in her head there is no changing her mind...So she helped her dadday take them off.     "

One good push from her daddy and

Voila!  She did it...And she is a wild woman!  She is riding all over the place, and taught herself to start without help as well..I'm super proud that my 4 year old little girl is doing it!  (Tyler was not quite as excited to get his off, at an older age too)

The other day I here Tyler yelling to me "You gotta see this"  He has learned to ride with no hands!  He has since moved on to hands above his head with the rock on symbol and yelling  "ROCK ON!"  Jared and I have bets on how long its going to be before he breaks a bone!

Back to School

I can't figure out why my pictures are turned, so..sorry...School started, a while ago...Tyler is in the second grade, and seems to  love it!  I personally think that the first grade work was just too easy for him and was bored...Of course all moms think their kids are genius's...but I really think its true...Last year his spelling words were, it, the, was, is, who, what, where etc...Or they all rhymed and had the same ending...This year a whole different story, such as remarked, appreciate, children, worried, acrobat....And he is doing so well!  NO calls from the teacher about talking as of yet!!  So maybe he just needed a challenge..Last year is AR scores were very poor, which was very frustrating considering how long he'd been reading..Now this year he is at a 93%...again he has harder books, which seem to make more sense to him...He brought home an assigment for a science project, and he and his dad have been hard at work for a couple weeks, and he is so excited to take it to school next week.

Our baby, is no longer a baby!  She started preschool this month, and is enjoying every minute!  She is acting so grown up lately, makes me very sad :(.  Yesterday she informed us that today they would be going on a fall walk and we were not allowed to come, only teachers...Her dad said "well I want to go on your fall walk with you"  And she informed him no way!  I was a little concerned for her because she just misses the cut off to be able to go to kindergarten this year...and all the kids in her primary class got to go..The kids she will go to school with are sunbeams right now. and she calls them the babies...But that first day of school when I had to leave her, broke my heart..I KNOW that if that had been kindergarten, and we would have turned around and gone home..There would have been no way I would've left my baby! And she hasn't said one word about going to preschool with the babies!

Our new Addition!

 We've had a new addition to our family in the last month..


Meet Gracie

She is the cutest little thing!  I'm still not quite sure how I got suckered into getting them a puppy....I am not a dog lover, or animal lover period...But since we can't seem to have babies at our house, we got the next best thing!  And it has been so fun!

But she has the cutest personalityl...this is one of her favorite games to play.  We try to touch her paw and then she tries to get our hand..We all end up laughing hysterically .

 

This is where she has ended up sleeping..She starts out on the floor in her bed...but at somepoint Tyler puts her bed up in his bed, and then she ends up sleeping on his lap...It is pretty cute.

She has to be involved in everything!  Here they were taking the training wheels off Izzy's bike, and she thought she could help.