Kindergarten! Kellan is 8 months!

 I can't believe Mia is in kindergarten. She has been such

a little old soul her whole life, I don't get sad about it, it 

just amazes me how smart and independent she has become and 

she gets to go with me to school which she is BEYOND excited about!

Her first day went great, other than their lunch isn't until almost 1pm! Absolutely 

crazy and they apparently took snacks out of the day. I made sure I spoke my mind about 

it but we still aren't doing snacks just on Fridays. I have a lot to say about making 5 year olds

starve but I will move on. And we wonder why kids are obese? So she was having stomach aches the first week due to overeating at lunch cause she was so hungry but hoping it gets better.

 She wasn't sure about laying on the street, she so crazy about 

cleanliness always has been but she smiled through :) And she still wants

to be a vet when she grows up which is what I wanted to be besides a teacher..

 and here is chunky getting in the pics.. this kid WILL NOT sit down,

he can totally crawl but would rather try and walk and he's standing up to everything

we don't know what we are going to do about him!

 Mia nicknamed him Haungi which cracks me up. She also

got very emotional and asked if he was going to loose his cute nose and cute

face when he grows up. It was so sad, she was crying and couldn't stop because she 

just doesn't want him to get bigger. :)

 First day of School!!

 so two of my best friends that I work with have daughters who are 

both in kindergarten so how fun is that? They all 3 get to be in the same

class all day and we get to visit them for lunch every day too. I LOVE it!!

 Mia and I

 Rick was not about to miss her important day so he crutched in and 

my mom was nice enough to take care of Kellan for the last few weeks too.

It's been stressful to say the least.

 My cutie

 group pic. I love these girls, they get me through

working and being a mom which is the hardest thing in my life by far.

Mia walking in the gate. She had such a great first day

 And here is my cute 8 month old! No he is NOT sleeping

through the night and Rick says it's a good thing he's so cute because we have 

just about had it. Don't think we go running in there every second, this kid starts to hyperventalate

and practically throw up when you just "leave him" I've never seen or heard anything like it and to

top it off he is a whopping 23 1/2 lbs! YUP! Mia was 22 lbs at 8 mo but still!

 and he's got 2 little teeth on the bottom and one coming in on the top!

I just have to show the amount of cheeks this kid is carrying around

my sister Brooke will appreciate this one, oh man!!!

 can we be any cuter!

 this is just to show how large this kid actually is

when standing..

 he steals my heart though.. boys they are sure

attached to their moms!! NOT ready for that, it's so different 

from girls.

 just so we can get the chunk factor

 back to Mia , I've been waiting for this shirt to

get in the mail. My friend gave me this idea to take a picture every

year from kinder to senior to see how big she gets in an adult shirt so 

I'm trying it! My sis Nicole is too for Hailey. I just love the idea!

 these were taken after school and let me tell you: full day kinder is 

hard for them, she immediately gets in her pjs and wants to chill so she was not going to let me take

her pjs off underneath or brush her hair for the pics :)

 A few things Mia has said lately that I need to write down: first of all she thinks

her cousin Scott is "MY Scott" and she told me she cries for him at night :( She also 

is constantly saying , "Scott would just be so proud of me for this or that, it's really cute.

He's truly the big brother she doesn't have and I'm so grateful for his sweet spirit because he's one in a million.

Then the other day she asked what was going to happen when Spock died, and I said, why are you worrying about that? She said because mom sometimes I just worry about things I'm not suppose to worry about. well that's the truth!

Then I could tell she wasn't telling me something the other day and she said "MOM I am not the story you think I am , I am not the boy who cried wolf!" I was dying laughing

She also has a girl who whines in her class and she said, LOVELY huh mom... 

She is also obsessed with going to college even though she's 5 and I think it's because all of her babysitters have gone to college after watching her so she told me that Kira at school was going to be her roommate at college and that she would be bringing 3 cars so Kira doesn't need to worry about having a car.

She is so funny and just too smart for her own good, and such a big sister, it took awhile, but she finally likes Kellan and I say that in all honesty because I was a little worried there for awhile but not anymore, she just adores him!