Rowley

Thursday was Aiden's OFFICIAL birthday! My big boy is six. Gosh, I can't believe in two more years he'll be getting baptized! Anywho, we celebrated with a secret agent birthday party last night! The kids seemed to have a lot of fun. In fact, I know Shelby did! She said, "THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER!" about twenty times. Don't make me blush, Shelby!

Mabel refuses to walk. That's right, you heard me. NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER. Even when we try to help her, "Eh, no thanks, I'll crawl." Bret and I tried to get her to walk between us and she was SUCH a DRAMA QUEEN!
A plea to Mabel: "Please start walking! I don't need a constant reminder of how dirty my floors are!"

Yesterday was Aiden's first day of school! Toward the end of the summer, he was actually starting to get excited about it, so that was a pleasant change. Here's a picture from the big day!


We didn't get a lot of information from him, since getting information out of him about school is like pulling teeth. Well, maybe not his teeth. They just fall right out! Here's what we did get:

-He made a paper hat and colored it. But he didn't get to finish it.
-He had PE but didn't go in the field, that's for bigger kids.
-He likes Mrs. Lambeth as much as he liked Ms. Hardy.
-All the girls in his class are pretty, except one, because she dresses funny. She has princesses on her shirt. But he's still nice to her.



And here's a picture with Grayson (with his pants on backwards. Consider youself lucky he's even dressed!). Grayson wanted to stay at school with Aiden. This should be fun for the next 3 years!

Who remembers that show??

Yesterday, my friend, Kayleen was kind enough to snap some photos of Grayson. They're his 2 year old photos. He'll be three in November! I really stink at keeping up on this picture stuff. I know what you're thinking, "Why didn't you get his done when you had your family pictures taken?" Or maybe I'm the only one thinking that! I'm such a scatter brain! Anyhow, check out Kayleen's work: http://www.photosbykayleen.blogspot.com/

She did such a great job. She had him talking and talking. I know, this is nothing new, but I just don't know how she got such awesome pictures with him yammering on! If anyone ever needs their pictures done, I highly recommender her!

I will definitely have her do Mabel's one year pictures...in about 6 months...he he. Or maybe just after this nasty bruise on her cheek clears up!

The other day I was expressing to my husband how anxious I was for school to start back up. I'm not looking forward to the schedule, I hate that. But I was looking forward to not having six kids in my house under the age of six. Bret suggested a craft project. I had to laugh at his naivete. Six kids and glue, paint, or play dough-this all translates to big mess. But, I will give him credit, he was trying to help keep his wife from going insane!

Today, I faced the plain facts. I needed to find something for at least my kids to do. I pulled out a packet that I had gotten from a workshop one of the Kindergarten teachers did for the parents last year. It had a bean game. You slide a bean onto a triangle divided into sections numbered 1-10. Whichever number it lands on, you get that many beans. Each person took 3 turns, to see who could get the most beans. This lasted for a while with Aiden, Gray, and I. Gray won everytime, his two was worth like 20 beans apparently.


Then we decided to make pictures with the beans. Gray, not really interested, so here's what he and Miss Mae did:


NO, those aren't beans. It's those puffed rice snacks.

Can you guess what each picture is? I started with these:

Aiden thought of the next two:

After we were done, Aiden wanted to glue them onto paper. Ugh, glue. But he reeeally wanted to do it so he could give a picture to his dad. So against my better judgment, I broke out the construction paper and glue. We would have plenty of time to get it done before the other kids got here.

BUZZZ! WRONG-O! The kids arrived 20 minutes earlier than I'd been told. And they all wanted to help. Yay! And then they wanted to do their own pictures. YAY! Translation: gluey table, gluey fingers, gluey beany mess.
But I guess they had fun and that's all that matters, right?
RIGHT?!

Right.

It kept them entertained for about and hour.