My Baby Starts Preschool..

This was Hope's first day of preschool (Actually it was last week). She is going to the Mini Explorers Preschool and Miss Alisha and Miss Sadie are her teachers. She has been wanting to go since the other kids started school two weeks ago, needless to say she has been asking everyday, many times a day when she gets to go. Finally today I could tell her it was her turn.


She came home and said it was the best day ever. Many of her friends from the neighborhood are in her class, so that makes it that much more fun.

Happy #4 Hopey !

It is hard to believe that our baby turned 4 last week. She is definitely the youngest child and adds a little spice to our lives. We are so glad she is ours forever. Hope really only wanted two things for her birthday. She wanted a barbie and cake. When asked what she wanted for breakfast she said cake. When asked where she wanted to go for dinner she said she just wanted cake. So we made cupcakes and she was happy as could be.

This is Hope and her Belle doll, I am guessing by the end of the month this doll may not have any hair left. Oh well, it is well loved.

Hope blew out her 4 candles and now she is officially a big girl (no more whining aloud)!

Hope didn't have a party, but did have a play date with her friend.

Some of Hope's favorite things are:
1. She loves to play dress-ups and put on make-up.
2. She loves to play Barbies and polly pockets.
3. Her favorite colors are pink and purple dark (that is how she says dark pink and dark purple).
4. She likes to play with friends all the time and gets very upset when it is time to be done.
5. Her favorite food is chicken cordon bleu.
6. Her favorite treat is skittle pies (she likes to squish them between pages of a book and then they are skittle pies).
7. She likes to go to the zoo and her favorite animal is the giraffe.
8. She likes to go to the library and get books.

Swim Lessons ... A Necessary Evil

Summer means swim lessons whether you like it or not! My mom did it to me and I am doing it to my sweet little munchkins. The girls took three sessions and it ended up being a lot. They were Monday through Thursday for 1/2 hour each day, except Hope she only took two sessions. But it has all been worth it, they are doing great. Their fear of water is diminishing which brings a smile to my face.

This is Kate and Sophia, they were in the same class.

We found that goggles are a key to our success! We don't leave home without them. Sophia was going off the slide by the 2nd session and the diving board by the 3rd session.

Kate is doing awesome and by the last session braved the diving board and the slide.

Hope loved it, this is her blowing her bubbles. After 4 weeks she was a little burned out though.

Hope's Preschool Graduation

Wow, our preschool year has ended. This year Hope did a co-op preschool. Six of the moms in the neighborhood took turns teaching and the kids had a great time.

Hope on her graduation day!

Libby, Ashlyn, Hope, Sydney, Ethan, and Spencer
These are our preschool friends.

Quotable Kids

Hope does not like to be called a dude. In fact, if you do she will tell you, "grils are not dudes". Yes, she does say grils not girls.



Sophia had a silly smirk come across her face this morning while getting her hair done and then she said, "I am going to fart in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!" I don't think she actually did fart, but it got me laughing.

Hope's Perspective

Apparently we go through a lot of batteries. Everything takes batteries right! Well today Hope informed me that the batteries in the toilet needed to be replaced. (It must have not flushed right!) Just thought it was funny.

Another tender moment with Hope was her Christmas list. The most important things on her list were a Christmas tree and Christmas lights. She informed me of this many times until we finally put our Christmas tree and turned on the lights. She was so excited. She ran to the door and looked out into the darkness and was sure that it was snowing. Then she came and sat in front of the tree and said, "Oh, this is just like heaven." Oh, through the eyes of a child, it brought tears to my eyes. Who knows maybe heaven is like having the snow fall and the Christmas lights shining.