Guess What!

"Mom guess what, did you know that a broom can stand up all by itself because of the Liberty," Shaylee said. The Liberty I said and she said yes. Can you believe it Mom? I racked my brain trying to think what the heck she was talking about. She got out a broom to show us and sure enough she got the broom to stand all by itself. I couldn't believe it so we had to take a picture. The next day we had to bring the broom to school to show all her classmates. I had to get to the bottom of what they were teaching my daughter at school about Liberty. So I asked the teacher and she started to laugh and said Shaylee do you mean your broom is standing all by itself because of gravity. Shaylee said oh yeah gravity. Supposedly because of the gravitational pull right now even Brooms can stand on their own, not because of Liberty but because of Gravity.

Papa and Jacob

Papa Great and Jacob came to visit. We sure loved their company. We usually like to have an uneventful visit but it definately was not that. The kids wanted Jacob to go on the water slide with them. I thought it would be pretty harmless, boy was I wrong. Jacob decided to climb up to the top and instead of going down the slide he fell right off the other side right on his stomach. I rushed over to him and of course he couldn't breathe because he knocked the wind out of hisself. He fell right off that about ten feet. All Grandpa had to say was what were you trying to do. It was pretty scary but Jacob got Daniel and they both went right back up that dumb thing. After one time down I told Jacob he was done. The kids sure love their Papa Great and we loved having him come to see us.

School has Started

School has finally started and Shaylee has been waiting all summer for this day. Blake, on the other hand, has not been excited. As we started of to school Mom tried to get everyone excited for their big day. When we got to school Blake started getting excited and his teacher Mrs. Reed who is fabulous made the transition so smooth. She was so excited to see Blake and that just made his day. She even told him they had dinosaurs in his room, I think from then on he was hooked. We all said our goodbyes to Blake and set of for Shaylee's first grade classroom. As we started to get close Shaylee began to cry. What, this is not like my daughter she loves school. By the time we got to her room she was hysterical and wanted me to take her home. I told her no and that she needed to stay. She told me, "Don't you want me, I want to be with you." My heart broke, I want to pick her up and take her home and not ever take her back. I knew she really needed to stay though. As she hung on my neck for dear life, her teacher told me she would take over whenever I was ready. Of course I wasn't ready but I motioned to the teacher and she had to literally pry Shaylee off of me. I hurried out of the room as tears came trickling down my face. I hurried to the car and called my mother to tell her what a horrible mother I was. I felt terrible, so later I snuck a peak in SHaylee's classroom to make sure she was fine. She was , of course, and from then on she loved it. She came that first day of school telling me that first grade was almost just like Kindergarten. She thought the teacher was going to make her read a chapter book in front of the class on her first day. Silly girl!

Emma Turns Two

Our not so little Emma is now two and is just full of energy. She is talking a bunch and we have a lot of fun with her.