This was the morning of Iowa's first football game and the beginning of a long weekend so what better way to celebrate than doughnuts! I loaded the kids in the car and we headed to Casey's. The kids each picked out a chocolate doughnut with sprinkles. Now you know why we only eat them on special occasions.
Andrew is at the stage when you ask him to smile his eyes automatically shut.
We had four birthdays all in a row. First Andrew, then Grandpa Dick, next Bob, and finally Kalin. So we started off the festivites with a Rotzoll tradition....Happy Joes! They honked the horn and sang Happy Birthday to everyone and then the birthday boys and girl each got their very own sundae.
The next day Aunt Becky packed us a very nice picinic lunch and we ate it down by the Mississippi. Thank you Aunt Becky. It was a beautiful day and we even got to see a barge go by. That evening we had a cookout with a Cookie Monster cake and homemade ice cream, it doesn't get much better than that. Here are the birthday boys and Kalin.
I ran a got my camera as fast as a could the other day, Andrew was actually playing with a toy for more than 5 minutes. He really likes his Thomas the Train track that he got for his birthday. Then the other day there was silence in our house which can only mean on thing right? But to my surprise he was lying on his bed reading books to himself. So I wasn't so worried when I didn't hear anything from him a few days later...but you can see what he did to my bathroom. One of the reasons I love Andrew so much is that there is never a dull moment in our house!
Okay, I've tried several times to rotate these pictures around and can't get them to work so please turn your head side ways. This is Kalin on her first day of school. The first day went really well, but for the rest of the week there were a lot of tears from both Mom and Kalin. Thanks to the advice of Grandma and some really good friends, we made it through the week. Kalin and I made a chart and she got to put a sticker on for each day that she didn't cry at school. If she got eleven stickers I told her that I would come and eat lunch with her on her birthday. I'm proud to say that I got to bring her chicken nuggets and oranges from Wendy's on her birhtday, of couse she cried when I had to leave but I think we made some progress!
The graduates: Jasmine, Abria, Katherine, and Kalin.
In August, Kalin graduated from Country Kidds Daycare. It is hard to believe that she started at the center when she was just twelve weeks old, and she was almost 5 when she graduated. Her teachers became part of our family and we loved each and everyone of them! Kalin was sad to leave her teachers and friends, but was excited to start Pre-Kindergarten at Heritage Christian School. The good news is that Andrew still attends Country Kidds and she still gets to say hi to her teachers.
