Kids say...

I have some posts to catch up on, but I wanted to jot down a couple of Isaac's comments from the past two days.  :-)

He was playing, and out of the blue said:
     There are Great Grandmas, and there are Good Grandmas. 

Yesterday, I posted this on Facebook:

Isaac: Is Nathanael a lady? Josiah: No, Mommy is the only lady in the house right now.
Isaac: Mommy's not a lady. She's a princess.
Mommy: I'm a princess?
Isaac: Yes. You look like a princess. (As I sit here in my knee-length cut-offs and macaroni and cheese stained shirt.)
Mommy: I look like a princess?
Isaac: Kind of. You need a princess shirt. A big one to fit you.

Today he continued the conversation:

Isaac: Mommy, you are a lady who looks like a princess.
Mommy: Why do you think I look like a princess?
Isaac: Because of the princess shirt.
Mommy: I don't have a princess shirt. 
Isaac: You need a BIG GIANT princess shirt!
Mommy: Am I giant?
Isaac: No you are big. You need a GIANT princess shirt like Elizabeth has a little princess shirt.

Isaac makes me laugh on a daily basis :-)

Here we grow!

We measured the kids to mark the start of the new school year:

Elizabeth is just under 50 inches.  She has grown about an inch in the last seven months!

Josiah is right about 43 inches.  He has also grown about an inch in the last seven months!

Isaac is 37 inches.  He has grown TWO inches in the last seven months!

Nathanael, standing, was measured at about 27 1/2 inches.  But it's pretty hard to accurately measure a bouncing baby :-).

First Day of School!

Today was the first day of school for two of our kiddos! 

 

Elizabeth started third grade!  She said she was a little bit nervous last night and said that sometimes she is shy.  But this morning, at the bus stop, she was yelling "hi" to everyone she knows :-)  This is her second year starting with a male teacher, and she thought that was pretty neat.  (Not to mention, they both have had compound words for last names:  Last year she had Mr. Whitehead.  This year she has Mr. Knightstep.)  She is also excited that she is in a gifted class.

Elizabeth got on the bus, then we had a half-hour before we had to leave to take Josiah to school.

Josiah started Kindergarten today!  Today was the first of the transition days for Kindergarten students.  (One-third of the class goes for two hours.)  He was able to meet his teacher, Mrs. Smith, last week.  I think that was great for helping this morning go more smoothly.

Next Tuesday will be the first regular day of Kindergarten and the first day to ride the bus.  The school system here is a bit different in that all the Kindergarten students go to one school.  They are the only ones in the building.  So, there are nine AM classes and nine PM classes.  It does make me feel a little bit better about sending my Josiah off on the school bus for the first time. :-)


The little boys and I had just over an hour between getting home from taking Josiah to school today leaving to pick him up again.  We took a few pictures, tried to play a game, and watched some Sesame Street.  Though I don't like that Josiah has to be on the bus as long has he does, it will be nice to have the three solid hours each day with just my littlest two...for another few months anyway.

We were home for lunch and a few hours of play, and I even got a nap!  Then it was time to get Elizabeth from the bus stop.

The kids enjoyed the first day!  Neither has homework, but I do.  Gotta love back to school paperwork :-p

What's happened in eleven months

It has been 11 months since my last blog post.  And it has been a crazy eleven months!  A lot has happened, as it always does. 

Our fourth child was born!  Nathanael James was born September 12, 2011.

In October, Isaac turned TWO!

At the end of January this year, we moved 450 miles away from our home for the previous three years.  We were blessed to move close to family!  But we do miss our friends and the area of Charlottesville.


We bought a house, and have been dealing with the joys and "joys" of being homeowners again. 


Elizabeth turned EIGHT!

Josiah turned SIX!  (We had our first Chuck E. Cheese birthday party.)

AND we are expecting our fifth child!  The newest one is due February 25th! 

Of course, that's just the really big stuff.  Phew!


I'm hoping to be better about blogging again.  (Shouldn't take much effort to be better than a blog post every 11 months ;-))  We've got so many more big things coming soon.  In a couple weeks, Elizabeth will be starting third grade, and Josiah will begin Kindergarten!  In a month, we'll celebrate Josiah being in our family four years!  Right after that is Nathanael's first birthday!  I don't think things will be slowing down any time soon :-)