Saturday, October 9, 2010

1st Day of School

We moved to the 'burbs and got Violet into this great 4 year old preschool! My family has known Miss Debbie since we moved to the area when I was in 2nd grade. She lives just across the street from my parents and I grew up with her boys. Miss Debbie has run a preschool out of her home forever and even Chase who is now 13, went to Miss Debbie's school. People call her when they are pregnant to put their kids on the list to be in her school, so I was thrilled when she was able to squeeze Violet in. She is very reasonably priced and just does such awesome things with the kids. I love that there are only 8 kids in Vi's class so she can get the individual attention that they really need at this age. It is also only 3 days a week in the mornings. That is so important to me because since I can be home with her I want to have that primary influence over her as long as possible! Violet LOVES school and I pray that she will always have the love and desire to learn.
"bye mom"

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Swimming clips

I took a bunch of video of the kids swimming on Labor Day the last day our community pool was open so I could "remind" both of them next summer that they loved the water and we don't have to spend all summer getting used to the water again:)

Last bits of summer



No Fear Owen




It took all summer, but finally she realized she could swim underwater!!


Last Crabs of the season...


Gabriel chewing on a chicken bone!

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

A little visit from MO

Violet and Owen's grandparents from Missouri came for a visit at the end of August to check out our new digs...

Making lips and teeth out of apples, PB, and marshmallows...yum!

We also got to visit the Baltimore Aquarium