Kindergarten

Jack did awesome for his first day of Kindergarten yesterday. He was a totally different boy than he was starting pre-school last year. He was full of excitement, eagerness, and a little anxiety. Half days, school starts at noon and so even though we had all morning to prepare, we are not used to eating a full lunch at 11am. It's 11:15 and we were rushing to get food down and outside to take some pictures.

Eleanor doesn't start pre-school until next week but wanted to be in on the pictures too...bad idea since she leads the goofy train! No chance I was getting them to be serious. 

Turned out pretty cute though!

A friend of mine whose son also started Kindergarten this year shared a verse on her blog that she was praying for her son as he also ventured into this big world. As I read it, I was reminded of how important it is to be praying God's word back to him and lifting our kids into his hands. (Thanks Bekah!)

Lord, turn Jack's ear toward wisdom and his heart toward understanding. Give him a teachable spirit, one that calls out for insight and searches for it as for hidden treasure. (Proverbs 2:2-4) I love this kid so much and I'm so grateful for you to entrust him to us.

Innocent Revenge

This weekend our neighbors at the lake (high school or college kids) are having a big camp out with friends...all fun and games until they're up until 3am playing beer pong or something and keeping everyone in our house awake...

Fast forward eight hours. 

Kids jumping on the trampoline, neighbors no doubt still sleeping in tents.

My Aunt Cindy, 'Grams' not so subtly encouraged the kids to scream as loud as they could

The kids had no idea what we were really encouraging, but thought it hilarious anyway.

okay, loving Ellie's static hair too!

Three's a Crowd

Love these kids...

And I thought my lap was crowded with two. 

It's feels good to be loved and wanted, but maybe we could spread out at least enough to turn the pages.

Ellie gets distracted easily especially with longer books. She couldn't resist making faces at Daddy with the camera.

1 month

I've been doing my best to not fall prey to the 'second/third child syndrome' and I've purposefully been making sure I take a good amount of pictures of Max. Max is now one month old and is by far my biggest baby yet. Eleanor was always tiny, and Jack was never above the 25%. Maxwell went to the Dr. yesterday and weighed in at 11lbs. 3oz (85%) and 22.5in. My cousin gave me the idea to take the same picture each month for the first year. It's pretty cool to then put them all together at the end to see how they've grown. So here he is at 1 month!