Saturday, September 24, 2011

First Day of School

They couldn't wait!!


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They are so so handsome!
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What a not so excited face. J is definitely not my photogenic boy. He hates to smile, and likes to make weird faces he then calls smiles. He just had picture day at school and he came home to tell me - "they had to take tons of pictures of me". I asked if it was because he was so cute. To which he responded -"no, they couldn't get me to smile" he then showed me his smile. Oh I can't wait to see those pics. :)
ImageS gets home 1 hour before J does. It was in this hour the other day that I was looking at him and we had this conversation:


Mom - S you are so cute.


S - I know.


Mom - What! How do you know?


S - Everyone tells me that.


Mom - Like who?


S- Like my primary teacher, and lots of other people.


I visit teach his primary teacher - so I had to text her this conversation. Maybe he's not my most humble kid. What a face!

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Here is S sitting at his desk. Does he look ready to learn or what? The thing about S is he doesn't like me to be around him at school. It embarrasses him - therefore he puts on a super grumpy face when I am around. In Kindergarten I used to ask him to give me a kiss goodbye in the car. We would be parked right in front of the school, so he would tell me to pull the car forward if I wanted a kiss. That way no one would see him do it. :)
Image Here J is meeting his teacher, Mr. Munsee for the first time. I have heard so many excellent things about Mr. Munsee. I know it is going to be an amazing year for J! (I am probably more excited than him) J on the other hand is fine seeing me at school. He even used to give me hugs when I would work in his class in 1st grade. This year when I work in his class he doesn't hug me, but he will stay in from recess to be with me. Got to love that kid!
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Peek-a-boo

PEEK-
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A-BOO

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Randomness

This picture was emailed to me by my friend who just happened to have a camera at church when this was going on. Here is S putting on the Armor of God - I think its so cute that part of the armor is shin guards.
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This picture is here just because. Sometimes I am amazed at how cute she is, and how much I love her. We all love her so much!!
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We went a frog hunting...and didn't find a single frog. Well the kids looked cute doing it! :) We heard there were frogs in the field behind the houses - tons of frogs to be exact. I think our problem was we went in the summer. We will go again in the spring - when it's all wet and soggy... a frogs dream home. This picture is on one of my credit cards - I let the boys pick a picture each. This was S's pick.
Image We love this wagon!! We have had if for years- it has travel across the country with us. It is actually K's favorite moving tool. He piles all our boxes on it and moves them to their destination. Then the sides go back on and doubles as a kid hauler!
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This is what our backyard looked like until a couple of months ago. Yep a weed garden - interestingly enough the boys didn't mind it. They dug holes, built ponds, castles, and here created a man made mud pit. The creativity didn't stop there - they got their water guns.... Glad I stayed clear of them.





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Here we celebrated S's 1/2 birthday! If you look close I forgot to put on a candle - yep that's what kind of awesome mom I am! He's really 7 1/2 years old.




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Image Here is the little lady lookin a little fierce. She wants some ice cream, can you tell?!













Friday, September 9, 2011

Camping in Sequoia!

Yep we went camping. You know the kind with a tent - thank goodness for blow up mattresses! It was actually fun. We did a little hike everyday. Here we did the 100 year giant trail full of redwood trees. I will admit they were beautiful. Most were hundreds of years old if not a thousand. If there were two trees close together they actually would grow into one massive trunk. It is hard to explain, but if you were looking up at the trees you would see 2 separate trees. If you looked at the base it was just one tree. Sometimes there were cave like holes in the middle of the trees that would make a pretty cool house. :) Well if you were inclined to have to live outdoors. In the pictures you will see that S was very into this pose the whole trip. Why ask why. *notice the hole in Sushi's shoe - I thought girls were easier on stuff than boys. Wrong -that is like her 3rd pair she has ruined.
Image I have to mention it - no matter how obvious it is. When you camp there is so much DIRT!! This was a pretty normal look for the Sushinator.



Image Ready to pick rice you may think, but this was K outfitted for our hike. It was kind of comical and very cute.


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Oh and the bugs. It must be nice being a kid and camping, because everything you love is outside (and sometimes inside) your tent. There is a little caterpillar climbing on S's sleeve - he is definitely a bug man.


ImageThen there was the night of the dirt fight. Yep - they even thought it would be funny to pour dirt on their heads, and down their shirts. You can only imagine our tubs when we got home after 4 days of camping.



Image This part was my boys favorite part. The smoke, I mean FIRE! Every night they were chomping at the bit to help get it started. We of course had smores every night until we ran out of supplies.


Image The hardest part about camping was the sleeping! Sushi had a really hard time sleeping because of the cold. That is why we ended up leaving a night early. We needed our beds! :)




Off topic - a couple of days ago my mom was up visiting. J was giving her a list of his favorite people. My mom made the top of course. His list is as follows:


1- Grandma (my mom)


2- Dad


3- Sushi


4- S (little brother)


5- Mom .. Yep here I am - at the bottom of the list. It kind of made me wonder where I would be if we had a dog. :)