We finally got Cadence's 1 year pictures taken! She's only 13.5 months.... I had rescheduled with the place I normally go for pictures, only to have them call me the day before to say they were closing permanently, so very sorry. So we ended up at Penney's again. She did pretty good this time, although she was pretty sure she wanted to be in the waiting room with the toys and tried to eat all of the props. Ornery little girly.
Kacie is home after a year in Mexico and was going to be in W-ton for Wednesday night church. Bob was working late so the girls and I went there for the evening. They were so.wound.up. Practically bouncing off the walls (benches?). We did not stay for the party at the condos because I've been trying to enforce an earlier school bedtime, but it was still fun to see everyone. (Especially Kacie.)
Thursday was our very first meet the teacher night. The younger girls got to play next door with Ashlyn which kind of soothed the sting of not getting to go with us. Cecily was pretty excited to see her classroom, and meet her teacher, and take her school supplies.
This is the face of a little girl who woke us up every half hour Saturday night/Sunday morning. Bleah. It was terrible. Bob took her out to the couch for a while, I let her nurse waaaay more than I normally do at night, we tried letting her sleep in our bed.... ugh. Pretty sure it was the worst night she's had ever.
She didn't seem to be phased in the morning. I felt like I got hit by a truck. We dragged ourselves to church in the morning, but then came home after lunch because I could barely stand up straight. Ugh. I tried to listen to afternoon church and fell asleep to add to feeling guilty about coming home early... pretty much the kids are going to think that church isn't important to us and we're doing it all wrong etc. *sigh*
Trying on hats just because.
And then after a slightly better night of sleep, but still not quite enough, I got up earlier than I have since I quit working to get Cecily off to Kindergarten! So excited in her first day of school dress and backpack.
Emmy wanted in the picture too.
Standing in line with her class... note the two crying children.... aww.
Lynelle is in her class. I didn't cry, but if someone would have started singing 'Sunrise, Sunset" I probably would have. It's been a sweet season.
She had a great day and thinks school is the best. We're starting off with half-day kindergarten so when I picked her up we headed straight to the farm for an eclipse party! Mostly because the farm has welding helmets. And Mom feeds us lunch. They handed out plates/glasses to the grade school kids so Cecily brought hers with us.
The babies were more interested in toys.
Michelle had a pack of glasses, plus the welding helmets, and we had a regular viewing party with Mom, Donn-oh, Shelly, Lena, and Claire. It was sooo cool.
Jack and Cadence playing with sand (Cadence ate it).
I didn't get any decent eclipse pictures, but we did see this rainbow/halo around the sun.
So the rest of the week was spent getting Cecily to school, forcing tired girls to take naps, and enjoying the beautiful weather.
Emmy is really not sure what to do with herself while Cecily isn't there to boss her around. One morning she reeeeaaallly wanted to make her Easybake oven cookies.
On a whim, I planted some double crops in the garden: lettuce, carrots, and turnips. So far only the turnips are growing well. I thinned them and we tried turnip greens for supper. My kids are so weird. I made lasagna, that they barely touched because melted cheese, but they all ate two servings of turnip greens. What? Who are you? Haha.
The stray cat ventures into our yard when we're out. I still refuse to adopt it.
We made it to Friday! Our first full week of school is done. We went out for lunch to celebrate- they always ask to eat at the 'taco restaurant by the red grocery store' and we never have so I took them there. Chips and salsa occupied them for a little bit. Then little miss 'I love tacos' refused to eat hers because there were re-fried beans on her plate and melted cheese on the taco. *sigh* So all three shared two plates of chicken strips and fries. One of them spent most of the time trying to cut up the chicken with a table knife, and the littlest one refused to stay sitting in the high chair. I ordered fajitas that I couldn't eat one-handed, which was a mistake because I had to keep one hand on Cadence the whole time. And Emmy had to go to the bathroom and I couldn't leave Cadence standing up in a high chair... Three Ring Circus. We saw Uncle Nathan, and then Bob joined us so the girls thought it was a great lunch, but that next time we should just get pepper-fries.
The cicadas like to shed their exoskeletons on our playhouse. They are the weirdest looking creatures.
Impromptu standing broad jump contest. Just because.
She's actually a pretty good little jumper.
So tomorrow we have to start another week of school. I wonder how long it will take me to accept the fact that the good times are over and I have to go to bed at a decent hour and get up when my alarm goes off like normal people.
Blessings.
