Will's 1st day of 3 year old Pre-School!!

On Wednesday August 17th Will had his first day of pre-school.  He is going to First Baptist in Troy 3 days a week and only 1/2 days.  He did really good on his first day and I got a great report from his teacher.  He did a lot better than me and I did try and stay and spy on him a little but I had to get Emma home for nap.  I have been trying for 3 years to get Will to pray and learn about God but after only 4 hours in a religious school I caught him praying in bed all by himself.  YAY!!!

Here was his prayer: "I pray for my mommy and daddy to get married"  Say what!!!  So I guess he doesn't think we are married because he hasn't been to our wedding.   We had some friends get married a couple weeks ago and he went and we have another wedding in about a month.  With all the talk of weddings I guess he is waiting for ours!!  You never know where they come up with some of these things.

I can't wait to see what this year brings and to see him blossum.  I can't wait for field trips and any time I can volunteer. 

Here is an example of one of his first projects from school. Above the dinosaur are the footprints he drew.

4 Months Old

Emma is 4 months old and is such a good baby. She rolled over from her back to her stomach on Friday August 12th. She has only done it once and I am still trying to catch some of her rolling on camera.

She is completly healthy but we need to plump her up a little so we may start introducing cereal this next month to put some weight on her. Here are her stats:

Weight: 11 pounds, 11 ounces (10%)

Length: 24 1/4" (50%)

Head Circ.: 40.2cm (25%)

She is an itty bitty thing right now but is extremely alert. She is a very happy baby and doesn't give me any trouble unless she is tired or hungry. The being tired part she need to figure out on her own and we are working on that. She won't let you rock her to sleep and she won't take a pacifier. The only way she falls asleep is on her own. Sometimes it happens right away and sometimes she has to cry it out. It almost seems to young for me to let her cry it out, but it works. The more I go in and mess with her the worse I make it.

She has recently started playing in her exersaucer and lasts for quite a while in it. Will starts school on Wednesday so I am hopefully going to work on a daytime schedule with Emma then. We will see how that goes!!

John Deere Wedding

Yesterday our friends Jason and Bobbi got married John Deere style. Will was the ring bearer and Mike was the bestman. It was a cute country wedding that unfortunately took place on a 100 degree day but we all made it through. Will did great and looked just too cute for words. Congratulations to our friends!!

T-Bones Game

Will and Emma got to go to their first baseball game last Saturday. It was hotter than heck but we all had fun. Uncle Sean and Aunt Sarah have been wanting to take Will to his first baseball game and they finally got the chance. In celebration of Dad's 60th birthday we all (except for Tim) were able to go. What more does a kid need than a hot dog, cotton candy, snow cone, popcorn and pretzel.  The game didn't start till 7:00 and we had to leave at the 5th inning (9:15) due to Emma.  Will would have kept going if we let him.  He started to really get into the game and cheer with the crowd.  Hopefully we can do another game soon!!  Thank you to my entire family who helped make the night a success!!