Good-bye, Hello….

Good-bye lazy days of no schedule, hours spent at the pool, relaxing mornings, sleeping later than 6:30, walking chaos while grocery shopping, refereeing many sibling arguments, and trips far and near. (the last few are just to add dramatic effect. We will still do those things….)

I asked the kids what were their 3 favorite things we did this summer vacation.  They are listed in no particular order to protect the innocent:

Parker- Swimming, Going to Mississippi, LuLu Camp:  To explain, LuLu camp is what we lovingly refer to as going to spend a few days with Grandma.  This summer each child went, INDIVIDUALLY, to spend a few days being spoiled rotten by LuLu.  Parker had the added bonus of her cousin, Lily, along for the trip.  They swam, played in the hot tub, got their nails and toes done professionally and played with their neighbors.  She loved it!

Emery- Going to Mississippi, Kid’s Camp and LuLu Camp: She was the first to go to LuLu camp and was tickled pink.  She is the middle child and energy focused on her is her love language!  She is so laid back and goes with the flow that she can sometimes take the backseat to the other two.  NOT that we intend to do this or think it is okay, it is just parenting her is not as complex as it can be with her brother and sister.  Oh the trials of the middle child!  So, we were thrilled that she got to be the first to go and she had a lot of fun. She got to do the same things Parker did, but also got to go to Wendy’s to eat with her PawPaw, which is her great Grandfather, and she brought us all back gifts from the Dollar Tree!

Bradley- Swim, LuLu camp and Go to Missippi (B’s phonetics!) He is dangerous around the water.  Period.  He is fearless. He loves everything to do with the water.  So we are not surprised by his response.  He was the last to go to LuLu camp and he came home with a huge bag of trucks.  Full bag of new trucks.  LuLu loves having a boy around so they have so much fun together. He also swam, went to the dump and Walmart with Wally, who STRUGGLES to tell the boy No!  He also played with Uncle Matt’s dog and had a big O time!

Kelly- Swimming, Going to Mississippi and Booking our DISNEY trip! We have had a lot of fun with friends this summer swimming and hanging out. We have also spent time with family and I really loved the kids going and visiting my family in Mississippi.  They did well and it was enjoyable.  We postponed our vacation until October this year, which is a great advantage to year round school.  We are headed to Disney World for the first time with the kids. We are going with friends and many families from our church will be there at the same time, so it is a guranteed good, exhausting time!

Today, the girls started school and they were thrilled to get the teachers they were hoping for.  We are so looking forward to see all they learn this year.

The standard pre-school picture

Ready to go…

The outtakes….

Emery and Mrs. F (parker’s 1st grade teacher, too)

Parker and Mrs. L

Bradley refusing to be left out…

This was in Parker’s folder today:

Greetings from a past 2nd grader

Dear Amazing Second Grader,

Welcome to the second grade! You’ll love Mrs. L.  She is awesome. You get to learn about cursive, money, and multipilication. There a lot of things ahead of you. You will love the history fair, science experiments, history, and more good things. You would like both teachers, Mrs. D and Mrs. L.  God always will stand right be side you where ever you go. I am you number one fan second grader,

Your fames Football,

player Donovan M.

How sweet is that?  It is dated May 22, 2009 and is from a former second grader!

Hello School year……