1st Week

It's day three and so far things are going pretty well. There have been emotions flying around here as we all learn to deal with our new schedule. The girls are enjoying school - but come home exhausted - mostly just from being around so many more people for some much longer than they are used to. I think the hardest part of their days so far seem to be the drop off time when they have to sit with a billion kids in the cafeteria waiting to go to class. I'm working on getting the drop off timed right so they can go straight to their class (there is a 10 minute window between dismissal from the cafeteria and the tardy bell in which to navigate the car-pool line...so we'll see).

They both came home with smiley faces on their daily report, though, so no major issues!

Here are a few pic's of the first day!

Tomorrow

Kindergarten starts tomorrow. The girls are ready. I am trying to be! Here's a few pictures of their progress! :

Teeny Tiny! (Started at 5lbs 6 oz and 4lbs 12 oz)

Around a year old.

This and That.

It's been awhile since a quotes post, so here are a few:

**As we are peering through the blinds at the across-the-street neighbor who is turning on sprinklers (yes, I'm training my kids to be like that noisy neighbor on 'Bewitched'), A. says, "I guess he wants to have clean grass."

**Lil Jo's new favorite phrase, used a lot after she has made a big mess, 'Dat's not mah pahblem.'

She also is absorbing a bit of her sisters' dramatic nature, whenever something hurts it doesn't just hurt it hurts real bad!

**Walking through wal-mart parking lot, "Jeeps are a bad idea, jeeps don't have doors," says B. I didn't spot the doorless Jeep - but this is why I have to keep a constant hold of B. She's always paying more attention to her daydreams and the things around her than to the things in FRONT of her :) She's constantly bruised from walking into things!

**Neighbor boy says to a jealous Sister B. while discussing popsicles given to Sister A. when she came out of quarter removal surgery, "well you just need to swallow your own quarter [to get a popsicle]." I don't think so.

We recently moved Lil Jo into a big girl bed. Daddy made it just for her - it's awesome! But, she refuses to stay in it. I had forgotten the naptime battles then the girls were her age. It all came back the first day we laid her down at naptime and two seconds later we heard the doorknob start to rattle....So, now I have to lay in the hall and watch until she succumbs to sleep. She puts up a good fight and wins one or two days each week. Bedtime has been a different ordeal - same fight but with added fear of 'tunders.' For the first month she would sleep fine after the initial battle. This week, however, she's been waking in the middle of the night and so winds up in bed with us. I'm working on waking up enough to sooth her back to sleep in her own bed!

To wrap up this mostly pointless post - the girls experienced Silly Banz and seem to be over them, for now. Unfortunately, they have been sucked in by the Pillow Pets and Zoo Pals Plates commercials. (I just asked them the name of the plates and A. sang the jingle for me 'when you clean your plate, then you see their face....zoo pals make it fun!'). The people writing those commercials seem to be doing a VERY good job. But, I doubt we will be getting any 'pets' or 'pals' in the near future!