School Glorious School!

Autumn had her first day of pre-school on Friday. Her class is all girls except for one poor little boy. I was hoping she would have some more "boy exposure" since she gets enough girls at home, but that's life. Today was their first "show and tell" and she took her "Holly Hobby" doll. When I picked her up I asked her how it went. "Good" she replied. Well, did you show your Holly Hobby doll? "Yeah, and my panties" she replied matter-of-factly. I gasped in horror. I so did not want to be those people. Your panties?! "Oh, it's OK, I didn't show the ones on my bum, just the ones in my backpack" (from the extra clothes in her backpack, her teacher asked us to pack for emergencies). So, we had to have a talk about how we probably shouldn't show those panties either during show and tell. But I couldn't be too upset, I was just glad they weren't the ones she was wearing. So let me just apologize to all the moms whose kids came home today and told them that Autumn showed her panties for show and tell. I just hope it didn't start everyone getting their respective "emergency" undies from their backpacks and comparing notes. I'm so sorry Miss Amy.

I want a new camera

We're terrible about taking pictures. I admit it. I always look back at my kid's baby pictures and think "That's it?!" So I'm trying. But I have the worst camera! The baby looks like a ghost. Or maybe it's the operator. Probably it's me. So Keli, here are the pictures you've been asking for, as good as I can get. Do you have any tips? Too much white, I think.

She's still cute as can be, and I cannot believe two months old! She' such a good baby and smiles and coos all the time. Nothing melts my heart like when she "talks" to me. Ahhh, babies.

Bigg Fun

Austin's work picnic this year was at Mr. Bigg's. The girls had a great time running around and trying everything out. They were so eager to get to the next thing, we barely stayed anywhere long enough to get a picture. They did however, love the pirate ship that shot nerf balls--Autumn has pretty good aim. Aspen was fascinated by the "alligator."

In the afternoon, we went outside to play on the water inflatables. The girls took some coercing, but Autumn eventually couldn't get enough. Aspen however, was a different story. Austin climbed up with her and because it was wet, promptly fell off. I almost had a heart attack. Then back up they went and Austin gently "nudged" her down. She came down crying and kept saying "Daddy pushed me!" Despite the emotional scars, we had a great time.

Is it your anniversary yet?

Austin and I celebrated our 8th anniversary on July 29th. I can't believe it's been eight years. Although in the grand scheme of thing, eight years is not that long, so much has happened. Two college degrees, three kids, four cars, moving more times than I care to admit (although I wouldn't mind one more!) It's been a wonderful eight years and I couldn't ask for a better husband or family. We planned on going to the Craftwood Inn in Manitou for dinner, but we had a couples baby shower that day and got back too late to make our dinner reservation. We instead went to Manitou, walked around, enjoyed the evening and talked without having to yell over screaming/giggling/crying. Then we had dinner at the Adam's Mountain Cafe on the patio by the river. It was the most relaxing evening I've had in forever. We closed the restaurant, not wanting to return to normal life. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, poor Nana had a long night with the girls. No one wanted the night to end there either, so the girls were up late, late. We promised the girls a "sleepover" for our anniversary, so for three weeks Autumn asked every day, is it your anniversary yet? Don't you want to go on your big date? We got out their big princess tent from Grandma and Grandpa Lee and they finally got their sleepover. It's nice to know we were missed.

Binky Baby

My sweet Autumn and Aspen have never taken binkies. Try as I might, they didn't want anything to do with them. As soon as we brought Eden home, they couldn't get enough binkies. I initially let them play with the ones Eden wouldn't take (she's a bit of a binky snob). But soon I realized we needed to nix that before we had problems. It's a little late girls.