Party and Picnic

We enjoyed a fun-filled weekend. On Saturday, the girls and I went to celebrate our friend Samantha's birthday. Natalie had an awesome time at the Fancy Nancy party.

After church on Sunday, we headed to Wind Lake, where they were having their town picnic. Uncle Gary and Auntie Theresa invited us and Natalie's cousins to enjoy the afternoon of bounce houses and other fun activities. Natalie's proud accomplishment was climbing to the top of the 25 foot rock that they had at the grounds. What a great weekend!

Smile

Tomorrow is picture day at school for Natalie. She is wondering how to smile for the picture because her second tooth fell out at school today. That is what she was practicing at the dinner table tonight. We will have to see which smile she chose when we get the pictures back from school.

On the topic of smiling, Jocelyn has been doing this a lot more lately. She is also having fun "talking" to us with her "oohs and ahhs". Tonight, she was listening very intently to all the stories Uncle Gary was telling her about Grandma.

2 new chapters

Tonight Natalie started piano lessons. She received birthday money from Grandpa Wes and Grandma Julie this summer to put towards lessons. She goes weekly for 30 minutes. She really liked tonight's lesson and is excited to practice for next week.

My daughter is getting far too old far too quickly.....I definitely don't want her back in the screaming days like her sister, but I'm not sure I'm ready for this next step either. :)
She lost her first tooth tonight. It's been loose for about a week now, and it finally came out tonight. She was pretty excited and is ready for the tooth fairy to come tonight. I think the tooth fairy pays more money for the first and last tooth, but we'll see...:)

Update the Calendar, School, and Smiles

The other night, Nate and I were having a light hearted conversation about nagging. Natalie overheard us, and wanted to know what nagging meant. So Nate told her that it was something you repeat over and over. She then stated that she too wanted to nag. Natalie started in on Nate then by saying, "Update the calendar, Daddy. Update the calendar, Daddy. Update the calendar, Daddy." This went on for some time with laughter from Natalie as she continued to nag her Daddy. What have we started? :)

Natalie has successfully put in 2 weeks of Kindergarten - sort of. She was home 2 days this week with the aches and pains of some bug that all of her classmates seem to be sharing. Natalie seems to be enjoying her new teacher, Mrs. Schneider.

We have all been enjoying Jocelyn's smiley face for the past couple of weeks. I wasn't quite sure she was fully awake when she first started giving me her huge smiles, but I have come to enjoy giving her the first bottle of the morning because she usually rewards me with these beautiful smiles when she is finished with her "breakfast". It is wonderful to have 2 beautiful, smiley girls!