1st day

Serenity's first day of pre-k

First day at Pike Primary & Pike Middle

butter you

Xavier is sitting on my lap holding a pink plastic toy knife....

Xavier: stay still (as he puts the knife towards my face)
Me: dude, don't poke me in the face with a knife that is rude.
Xavier: I'm not gonna poke you, I'm just gonna butter you.

almost a month in

yesterday was the start of week 4 of school. i can't believe it's been almost an entire month my baby girl has been in school. she really is enjoying herself and even though she can't remember pretty much anything she does there for 6.5 hours a day, lol, she is so excited to tell me the things that she does remember. today she sang me the whole entire song, This Old Man. she only forgot what a couple of the tasks on a couple of the numbers were but beyond that she sang me the whole thing :) oh and a huge, huge deal was that Serenity finally walked into school all by herself yesterday. they were running a little behind schedule and skip asked her if she would be able to just go in by herself and she did.
xavier and i are slowly adjusting to being the only ones home since daddy started back to school as well. although last week did throw us for a bit of a loop as a friend of ours was in a bind and we went to her shop to help her out a couple days. it was good to do though since i will be doing it on a full time basis soon enough.
fall is fast approaching and we didn't quite finish all of our summer bucket list but we did manage to knock out a lot of things. hopefully I'll be able to come up with our 2013 bucketlist and keep up with it better and not wait so long to get things done. hehe
technically i did tell myself that our summer would be over the end of august so we have a couple more days to see what we can hammer out.

1. Go to a zoo
2. Go swimming
3. Go fishing
4.Blow bubbles
5. Have a water balloon fight
6.Scavenger hunt
7.go to the movies
8.have a picnic
9.make tie dye shirts
10.watch fireworks
11.feed the ducks
12. Go to a new to us park
13.go camping
14.make cookies
15.fingerpaint
16.go to dauset trails
17.catch lightning bugs
18.camp in the yard                                                                                                                                       
19.take a hike
20.go geocaching

21. Mail a card to someone
22.plant flowers
23.make seashell wreath
24.find and make craft from pinterest
25. Go to our normal park
26.roast marshmallows
27.Go to Noah’s Ark
28.Have tea party
29.Lowes Build and grow clinic
30. Excavate toys from ice
31. find and make craft from pinterest
32. Go to Yellow River Game ranch
33.Go to lazer show at Stone Mountain
34.play board games 
35.Go on a boat ride
36.Sit outside under a tree and read
37.play miniature golf
38.go to a museum
39.Make a raised salt picture 
40. Marble race
41.make father’s day presents
42.help daddy build something
43.find a new snack to make and try
44.go get fresh homemade peach ice cream
45.help cook dinner
46.go to the flying high circus
47.watch a parade
48.make a messy painting
49.spend a day with grandma (each separately)
50.lay and watch the clouds

good start on the 2nd

today was the start of the second week of school. we had our normal talk about how we don't like school and we don't wanna go and then i gently reminded her that yes she does like school but was just tired b/c it was so early. by the time we got to school she asked me if i would walk her in and of course i reassured her once again that as long as she wanted me to walk her in i would. we walked all the way to the door without a problem, we walked into the school without a problem and i passed my girl off to one of the para-pros without a problem. hopefully the week continues like this and she's over the scare of being pulled out of the car.
Xavier misses her terribly during the day. he's always so excited to see her when she gets home. He's gonna be in for a real shock next week when Skip starts back to school again. He's been used to all of us here, then just mommy and daddy, but next week it will be just me and my boy. it's never been just me and the boy so i'm not sure if either of us will know how to act :)

Thankful Thursday

1.    Today I am thankful for quiet. It’s actually a bit of a struggle. My baby girl is on her 4^th day of school and my little guy is getting himself some much needed grandma time. I’m used to so much noise and commotion in the house that it’s weird to hear nothing. But it’s nice to be able to make phone calls without hiding in a bathroom or closet.

2.   I’m thankful that Wal-Mart price matches. Kroger has milk on sale for 2 for $5 but Wal-Mart is closer. Wal-Mart wants over $4 for one gallon but for $1 more I can get 2 gallons.

3.   I’m thankful for direct deposit. That’s one less trip a week I have to make

4.   I’m thankful to the teachers at Pike Primary who have been so sweet to my crying baby girl the past 2 days I’ve dropped her off and that they have been trying to help mommy by reassuring me that as soon as I leave and she gets to class she will calm down and forget she was even crying.

5.   I’m thankful that my hubby started mowing the lawn after I left to take the girls to school because I was gonna help him out and do it when I got home (but I really didn’t want to)

3rd day of school=first bad day

Today's drop off at school did not go so well. Serenity has done super so far this week. she hasn't cried, she hasn't tried to hold onto me, she's just went on into school and i've handed her off and she's been having a great time. well today i tried to just drop her at the curb like a big girl. that didn't really happen. She was screaming that she wanted me to go in with her. She was holding onto the inside of the car as one of the teachers had to help pull her out telling her about how she would help her to class and reassuring me that she would be fine as soon as i drove away. she was just going to cry until she saw her friends and her teacher but it didn't really help me. as soon as she closed my car door i lost it. i've cried here and there over her going to school but with this episode i bawled. i was sobbing as i drove out of the parking lot. i continued to do this the bulk of my ride home. it killed me to see my little girl crying so hard about something so little. so of course i decided, and told her this afternoon when i picked her up, that i will walk her in until she doesn't want me to anymore. when she tells me she is too big to be walked in is when i will stop and until then i'll treat her like my baby girl b/c let's face it, that's what she is :)
I'm gonna let her be my baby as long as she allows me too and if the only thing that let's me do that is walking her into school then by golly i'll do it.
(oh, but she did say she had an awesome day at school, so i'm pretty sure it happened just like the teacher said it would and she stopped crying as soon as i left and she went inside)

their love is awesome

my daughter is AH-MAZING. last night the kids and i went for a walk. as always i had them on the side nearest the grass and myself next to the road. well i was holding Xavier's hand and then Serenity was on the other side of him. my thoughts better for both her and i to be holding his hands. Well just a few minutes into the walk Serenity stopped us and told Xavier to switch her spots. before i could even question why she started talking to Xavier and telling him why she was changing their spots. She said "you need to be on that side b/c if a car comes I don't want it to hit you. So you need to be in the grass to stay safe and I'll be closer to the car."
It absolutely melted my heart to hear her basically say that brother your life is more important to me and I'm willing to risk getting hurt so that you don't. I mean she acknowledged the fact that if a car came he wouldn't get hit being in the spot that she was in and the new spot she had taken she could get hit. It is so amazing to see how much love they have for each other and i PRAY,PRAY,PRAY it stays that way. yes they fight and as they get older i know the fights may get worse, but i pray they don't. i pray that if they fight it's small little spats about nothing important and that they keep the relationship they have now where they values each others lives more than their own.
I have some awesome kids and couldn't be prouder of them on a daily basis.

it's that time of year again and for the first time

Thursday was the beginning of getting back to school. Serenity & I tagged along to Mariah's open house. It's hard to believe she is in the 7th grade already. It seems like just yesterday I was changing her diaper (she'll be so happy to know I'm reliving wiping her butt) She seems like she'll have some pretty good teachers and she seemed to like the new school. She has been at the same school her whole life but this year has changed it up and is now off to Pike County. This is also where Serenity is this year. yep, my baby girl had her open house on Friday evening. She got to check out her classroom, meet her teacher Mrs. Green and her para-pro Mrs. Mary. She loved them both immediately and the first thing she asked me on Saturday morning was if it was time for school. She wasn't to happy of course yesterday when I woke her up at 6:45 but she sure did have a great first day. mommy and Xavier on the other hand had a bit of a rough time. I walked her into school with Skip sat in the car with Xavier. He was crying as soon as we parked saying he wanted to go with her. I held it together until I let go of her hand and placed it in one of the para-pros that's when my first tear for that day fell. of course this isn't my first tear at the thought of her going to pre-k. I mean i broke down in the middle of walmart buying her lunch box. then once again leaving the open house friday night. and then at just random times since i've known she would be going. but this was a different tear. this one was the one that dropped b/c she was actually at school. Skip & I decided to take Xavier to breakfast and have a little date with him and hopefully help keep my  his mind off of not being with her. I mean all the distractions yesterday and today were totally for the benefit of me Xavier.
overall though we all did pretty well for Serenity's first day of school. Xavier and I didn't have break downs all day and she really enjoyed herself. now remembering what she actually does at school is something we will have to work on :)