Friday, August 20, 2010

First day of School

Gabe was very excited for school. I was very excited as well. He is definitely ready and very anxious to start school. I didn't cry, but, guess who did?...Eli, He was so sad and said, "I want to go with Gabey to school!"
Poor little guy. However, we had plenty of fun while Gabe was in school...someone even gave him a lollipop while we were out doing errands.
I picked up Gabe and we started talking about his day. Preface: I was worrying about one thing and one thing only...lunch time...I know, sounds crazy but Gabe eats whatever you give him, but he eats it incredibly slow. I knew I shouldn't give him much food, but I also knew he would be very hungry because he can't usually eat a full meal...just little meals through out the day. Unlike his brother who can tank food down and then be good to go for a few hours). SOoooooo, when he got home I asked him if he liked his lunch. He then proceeded to tell me about how everyone at lunch had to wait for him to finish eating. He had a big smile on his face and said, "I was the last one at lunch, no one else was sitting down. All the kids had to wait for me to go outside". I think part of him thought that was pretty cool as well as realized that it was kind of embarrassing. He also said that he didn't know what to do with his garbage because everyone had left so he told me he just put it in the lunch box. He said, "is that okay?"....I sure like that kid. He then asked me in a very sweet voice, "mom, maybe you can give me not as much food next time." I laughed inside and realize that he was hungry but he didn't want to be the last one left in the lunchroom. I guess Mondays lunch will be in much smaller portions.

Some updated pictures of Hazel and Eli. We sure had a fun day with it being only the three of us.
If you look closely, Hazel just got her first tooth. She sure is growing fast.

Family PIctures


We've finally done it! I am super picky on our family pictures so I end up critiquing everything and I end up not happy. So, for the last few years, I ended up taking them thinking I could set it up perfectly and then just use the 10 sec. countdown. Well, while we visited my family this summer we got all 42 of us together to get a once in a lifetime picture. No one was pregnant, so it was at the time, a "complete" picture of everyone. John actually flew home just so he could be in the picture... (approved by the military of course for the 4th of July weekend). I decided to take advantage of this opportunity and put a lot of effort into making us all look good together. So, here you go...I think the photographer was awesome and made everything exactly like I wanted it to, plus had more ideas of his own. This was my favorite even though some people aren't smiling.