Jack

Jack came running in from the bus today.

Jack: Mom I got 2 good news and 1 bad news, what do you want to hear first?
Me: Umm... the good news.
Jack: Well 1 of the good news is there is no bad news. The other is I have a lose tooth! I ate a pear at school, boy are they hard" (then he gives it a significant wiggle).

Geez where he comes up with some of the things he says!


UPDATE:
Jack came home the next day to show me his tooth that he pulled out himself at school. He said he was standing in line when he pulled out his tooth with his bare hand. He then said "My tooth is out!" His teacher gave him a little plastic tooth to take his home in.
I figure the tooth must have been lose for awhile without Jack realizing it because you can see the new tooth coming up already. Anyway tooth fairy comes tonight!!

First day of School

Well after an 8 day strike the boys are back to school! The strike was a bit tense and stressful for everyone so we are glad that it is over. Since the open house, schools still did that before the strike started, Jacob had been so excited to go back to school. Jack was a little weary but at the open house he found out a friend was in his class so it gave him more confidence.


At about 4:15 the boys came rumbling home. Both threw off shoes, coats and backpacks for a snack. They were both still excited from the first day of school. Jack told Dada that Mrs. Rodriguez is the best teacher ever. He showed me a book that she let him borrow about cats. Jacob told me he had several kids from his first grade class in his second grade class. He met up with some friends on the playground to play first thing.

First day went off without a hitch, so great! I am excited to see what the year holds for the boys.

Jacob

Tonight at dinner Dada started to remind Amelia that she wasn't going to be able to stay up for movie night because of some bad behavior the night before. I say started because Dada had just given Amelia his "look" and said something along the lines of "And do you remember how you acted last night?" when Jacob interrupted with, "Don't worry about it, he'll just let it slide." (along with gliding his left hand in front of his body.) Oh my goodness I almost choked on my chicken I laughed so hard. Jacob knows Dan's a bit of a push over and told his sister not to even worry about him! Oh I laughed, Jack and Amelia kept intimidating Jacob's gesture and words to make me laugh more.

*** Amelia did get to stay up and watch the movie.***

ipod

The other day at church Jacob was given a discarded ipod. He had high hopes that it would work. I could just see the sparks of excitement at even just the thought he could have an ipod. I told him not to get too excited because I wasn't even sure if it worked. Well we borrowed Myrna's charger to see if it would even turn on: it did! Oh boy how excited the kids were for that. But there was a password that we didn't know. Well lucky for us Dada is kinda technology savvy because he got the thing up, running and connected to my i account. Now Jacob has an ipod. The first morning Dan told him it was working, Dada told him at 5:15am, Jacob stayed up and played it all morning. I had downloaded minecraft for him the previous night.
We also figured out that we could Facetime and text Umma, Josh, Tanya and our ipad. Oh the joy in that alone! The boys are now obsessed with texting Umma. Now note they type about 1 word every 4 minutes but they still text. I figure it is good spelling and typing practice for them. Umma of course doesn't mind.
The kids have gone from staring at our big tv to the small ipad to an even smaller ipod screen. I believe they will be far sighted soon.

Amelia

Amelia started her last year of preschool the other day. I can't believe it!! She really likes school, likes to do school work. I stayed a bit to help with some other kids her first day so I got to see her sitting nicely and singing along. She came home singing, "head, shoulders, knees and toes." This year she is going to preschool three days a week. I could tell even after the first day that she was kinda tuckered out from it. Once she gets into the routine it will be no problem though.

Labor Day

Labor Day this year we were going to go camping but it got canceled due to wild fires. Instead we went north to visit Jamie, Emily and family and spent sometime in Spokane. We had a great time visiting the Colemans. Out of the whole weekend Jack said his favorite thing was playing with CC and eating gumballs at their house. Jacob couldn't decide what his favorite thing was because it was all so fun. Amelia liked the gum best of all.
In Spokane the kids went on the carousel and we all went on the Sky ride, a leftover gondola ride from the world's fair. We stayed in a nice hotel right next to the park so we could just walk over. We swam, ate out at restaurants and spent time together. The whole weekend was great; everyone got along and we had a good time.