Made Me Laugh

I visited Madison and Wyatt's school the other day, with Levi in tow. After we had lunch together, we were on the playground when a cute little Hispanic boy (dark skin and black-as-black hair) came to talk to us. He was talking to Levi (my blond-as-they-come baby) and telling me that my baby is so cute. And then, "Don't let him get a sunburn. I worry that he will get a sunburn. See (showing me his arm), this is what a sunburn looks like." I look closely for signs of redness. Nothing. He goes on, "When I was born, I looked just like him. I got a sunburn and now I am this color." Thanks for the advice, cute little second-grader. We'll avoid sunburns!

When I went to give Levi a bath this afternoon, the tub had little pieces of something all over it. I questioned Madison and Wyatt, who had been playing in there earlier with toy boats.
Me: "What's all over the tub?"
Madison: "Oh, that's dirt."
Me: "Where did all this dirt come from?"
Wyatt: "We wanted it to look like a real ocean."
Madison: "We dumped out Wyatt's shoes in there."
Of course you did. How resourceful of you.

Rocky Point Getaway

Even though school started last week and summer is officially over, we were able to sneak in one last little vacation and hit the beach like the kids had been asking to do all summer. Our good friends invited us to join them for a weekend in Rocky Point, and we are so glad we did! We had a great time. Travelling with another family was so much fun. The kids had friends to play with, and then after the kids went to bed at night, the adults stayed up and played Rook and talked and laughed a lot!We stayed in a really nice place. This is the view out our back door...a nice big patio, grass, a three-section pool, and then the beach right in our backyard.

The kids all loved the sand and the water. Levi crawled right in, not a bit scared. The water was warm--the warmest ocean water I ever remember swimming in. We even went on a banana boat ride (all of us) and rented jet-ski's (Darin and Brian).

Madison got to go on vacation with her best friend, Coralee. What lucky girls!

All the kids--Wyatt Burns, Wyatt Elam, Coralee, Levi, Madison, and Carter

Shopping

The whole group, just before the long trip home. We had a perfect trip--great company, nice weather, fun swimming, happy kids, and good food--now if we could have just stayed a few more days!

When A Kindergartner Hijacks Blogger

Wyatt asked me today if he could play on PBSKids. He does that quite often, and knows how to get to the website and find his way around just fine. So later when I came to check on the latest blog happenings, I was surprised to find a new post. Somehow he opened my blog, found the "new post" button, typed in the text area and even the labels area, and then successfully posted. I think he forgot to run spell-check though.

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It's So Quiet

With two kids off at school, and Levi going on hour three of his nap, it's awful quiet around here! Madison and Wyatt were excited to start school today. I think Wyatt was a little nervous. When we went to meet his teacher yesterday, she asked him his name. He said, "um, I don't remember." Was that something I was supposed to teach him before he went to school? After seeing his classroom and meeting his teacher yesterday, he was feeling a little better about things. We are very happy so far with Wyatt's teacher, Ms. Goodenow, and Madison's teacher, Mrs. Meyer. We are looking forward to a great year!

Not So Uniform

Tomorrow's the big day...back to school! We had a "Not So Uniform" back to school party last week with Madison and 14 of her friends. The girls and their moms came and we did what we could to make our school uniforms a little more fun. We added small flower and heart embellishments to our shirts and rhinestones to the buttons. We made belts and hair bows and flowers in uniform colors. The girls made beaded backpack charms with their names on them. We all had fun crafting, and the girls are excited to go to school in style!

Levi's First Haircut

I kept putting it off, but I finally was ready to cut Levi's hair for the first time. Maybe its because he was the first of my kids to have even a hint of curl in his hair, and I didn't want to cut those cute little curls off in the back, because he may never have hair long enough to see them again. I love the new look! What do you think?