Poop the Scoop!

I have to admit that I my intial answer to my kids asking to do something that could be a little dangerous or get them super dirty is "no". I have been making an effort to take a few second pause and then answer with a less protective answer.
Tuesday while at Pipa and Grandma Joan's house the dogs left a few deposits in the grass. The kids went to get the pooper scooper and my initial thought was no way, they will get it all over themselves. After a few seconds of pause I realized, what could happen that couldn't be washed off and would probably make for some funny photos. So we let the kids do the dooty duty, and they did a great job. No one got it on them, and they walked the whole perimeter to look for more. One more example of how much they are growing up, and how we have to let them try
big kid stuff.

So Long Sweet Summer, Hello School!

Today marks the last day of our summer.
The reason being that we start school tomorrow. Kindergarten awaits us in the morning, and with it a class with no more than 10 kids in it and a teacher that has known our family for 27 years. Mrs. Zapolski was our dad's kindergarten teacher and mom taught at the same school as her before we were born. We are excited to start school, but have our reservations too. We have been asking many questions the past few days - "How many minutes will I be at school every day?" "What will you do why we are in school?" "Will I learn to read?" "How many days in a row do we go to Kindergarten?". Our parents keep telling us how great it will be and we hope they are right.


Thursday we had our last swim lesson with Miss Haley. She really helped us learn to be better swimmers in the pool and we are even diving to the bottom. Now we can swim without floaties some of the time and are doing cannonballs too!


Tonight before bed we read a few stories like always and then we packed our backpacks. It was fun to put them on and walk around the house. They are much bigger than we are used to, but they need to hold our homework folder.

We also picked out our clothes for tomorrow. Our school is a uniform school so we can wear collared shirts in navy blue, hunter green or white along with khaki or navy pants/shorts.
We both picked out green shirts and khaki bottoms.


Tomorrow we are heading out early to take some photos in front of the tree at our new house (that is under remodel). It happens to be the house our dad grew up in, and he took his first day of school photos there. Pretty neat huh?
We invited our grandparents to come take some pictures with us and see us off to our first day of school.
So goodnight and sweet dreams to all! We are dreaming of fun on the playground, learning and meeting new friends!