Racing

My kids had a fund raiser race at school. I loved it! Butterball is the closest one to me with his ID tag flapping in his face. Needless to say he did not win but he was so cute. The first race he did he raced with his arms folded the entire time. I was glad he didn't this time.Now him with his ribbon for participating. He loves this ribbon.Appleseed and his friend sitting in the winners circle. (A little side note, Appleseed looked at what I was doing and said, "The blog is so cute!")After the Kindergartners raced Appleseed has his own race.Later in the day it was Butterbean's turn. You can barely see her head and her smile, she didn't win either but had a lot of fun.
And her with her ribbon for participating. The money earned for the races are going to build a bigger play ground for the kids as the current one is quite small.I have to admit I do love this school, I love the uniforms, and I love what they are learning. I am very glad I moved them to a charter school.

School Days

I am too tired to correctly edit these photos in the order I wanted so I will give you the story anyway. Hopefully it makes sense.

My kiddos started school today! Waahooo! My daughter is in 3rd and my son in Kindergarten. I was so nervous the whole morning. But they both did amazing. My biggest problem? The youngest one in this photo thinks he needs to go to school too and complains every day. I tell him that he has school at home and that I am the teacher. It is not cutting it.Notice the sneaky hand holding in the first picture? Butterball discovered that Appleseed was holding.....gasp! An ItCh BoMb!!!!!And this was supposed to be picture one. Ugh. Butterball insisted on wearing his belt to the very last hole so it is scary tight on him. And Butterbean informed me that she thinks she actually looks cute in uniforms.OK, back to the frightening story of the ItCh BoMb! Butterball insisted on throwing it away explaining to Appleseed that that is what he thought gave him hives (He has had hives for 4 days prior). As you can see, Appleseed did not like that idea.Now we are still explaining how bad the itch bombs are to him. It looks like he is seeing the light from the great wisdom of Butterball. :) And just so know one worries. It was the tight little dried up ball thingy, not the big puffed out bomb.Then we were finally able to move on to get my favorite picture ever. I want this one as an 8X10 on my wall. I love it!As I drive them to school, a nervous wreck as I had to swing back to grab a school lunch, my predictable Butterbean can't leave things calm and peaceful. She starts in saying that her and Butterball need to find some sort of a meeting place at school where he can wait for her if he is having a problem with bullies. I told her that he can't just sit somewhere and wait for her but that if he did have a problem he could tell his teacher and his parents. She said, "But what if someone is making fun of how he looks?" I told her that she needed to stop right now, she LOVES to freak him out. She of course got furious and started to plug her ears when he was explaining that maybe they just wanted to ask him to be his friend. Cute little positive guy. So I tried to click a picture but she wasn't happy about me trying to get a picture of her very grumpy, I know more than all of you and you are so out of it face. Oh yes, I can not wait to see that face when she is a teenager. NOT!!!Oh brother! Just saw this one. How in the world did they get posted so wrong! Appleseed is trying to explain that it was not yucky! Poor guy, so misunderstood.And that was our day. I missed them something terrible. Apparently they missed something else. Butterball came home and started picking on Appleseed in a BAD way! Thankfully it was nap time for Appleseed. Then Butterbean came home......I have a tendency to plug religious music on before she comes home because she is such a negative person. She immediately went on the rampage about what the other two may have got or done while she was gone, or how unfair it all is, or slamming the door and yelling about how mean we are. And then Butterball joined with how "Wude" I am. Yes, I can not WAIT to send them back! :)

Crazy Hair Day

Butterbean had Crazy Hair Day at school. She wanted to do her hair herself originally. I finally convinced her to let me do it. It did not turn out how I wanted but it was still fun and she liked it so that is all that matters.

School Carnivals

My daughter's school had their school carnival this last month. The kids had an awesome time.

Learning the bike safety. You can see Butterball in the back ground with the crooked helmet. I am not sure what they learned here but they liked it.They got their hair spray painted. This took a few washings to get out. And I was insane enough to let Butterbean go to school with hers the next morning. That was a pain to brush through.Appleseed waving around his pizza crust.Trying on the fireman helmet. You know, all I could see was how much that grossed me out. All those kids trying that thing on. Yuck!Then my husband's brother invited us to his kids school carnival. It was SOOOOOO much better than ours. A TON cheaper too. Maybe next year we will go to just theirs. he he

They had a Fear Factor booth there. You shook a dice and whatever number it landed on was the thing you had to do. They had drinking ground cow tongue, picking pennies out of jar of meal worms, getting plastic bugs out of a jar of live crickets, etc. It was pretty cool. I was surprised that my kids wanted to do it. Butterball played it twice. He got the meal worms and the crickets. Butterbean got the meal worms. I was surprised when she actually did it.My sweet nephew won a stuffed animal that he gave to Appleseed.It was super super windy part of the time we were there. It was like hurricane winds. It was nuts.My gorgeous niece giving Appleseed a kiss.The kids with their cousin and their balloons. It was so much fun there. Thank you for having us Uncle R and Aunt M.

Wore out!

Butterbean is in a summer program to get her ready for Kindergarten. It is only an hour and 15 minutes a day, four days a week but she loves it. After the first day she told me they had wore her out! She said that several times. So after we got home I had her lay down and she fell asleep! That never happens. We do fight over what shoes I let her wear (no flip flops). Tried telling her it was a school rule till she pointed out other kids wearing them. They taught them to count to 1 today. She can count past 100. So on the way home she said, "Don't they know I can count to 1? Don't they know I can go higher? Why are they teaching me that?" I had to explain that not all the kids know how to do that so they are teaching them all the same thing. This will be interesting. My husband already wanted to know if they were holding her back developmentally.

First day of school.
She fell into the sand at the playground with her mouth apparently open. I of course had to grab the camera first.
I gave my kids some bologna for a snack and this is what they did with it. Cuties!