Amelia

Amelia and I went to the pumpkin patch today with her preschool class. She had a great time of course! We got her a Cinderella pumpkin, went thru the hay maze, climbed the hay pyramid and petted the animals, the usual stuff.
The notable thing about the pumpkin patch trip was during breakfast. I told her that we were going to the pumpkin patch today. She responded by sticking her lip out and saying "Umma. I want Umma to take me." I said yes of course you do and Umma would want to take you but this year its me. She didn't like the answer but she got over it.

Cub Scouts

Jacob and Jack are about a month into Cub Scouts. Of course with everything their attitudes and aptitudes give each boy's experience different.
Jacob loves going through the list of requirements for each badge. He has already completed two badges because he is driven to finish the list.
Jack likes to do the different activities but slower. Some of the requirements he has jumped at, others he says no thanks. He has started about 4 different badges, completing about half or more of the requirements but not finishing any yet.
The great thing about the badges, for both boys, is that it gives us something to do together. At first I was tempted to sign off on a lot of the badge requirements because they are things we have already done BUT after consideration I didn't. I want to take advantage of the opportunity to spend time doing activities with the boys. Last night, as a family we did a Mario Cart video game family tournament (Tiger-iffic Badge) and the other day we all counted our steps in the backyard to compare step sizes (Code of the Wolf Badge).
I can't wait to see what else Cub Scouts have in store for us!

Amelia

Amelia loves to sing and dance so the Barbie movies are right up her alley.

Jacob

As I was leaving tonight Jacob ran out of the house for a hug. He told me, "You're better than any ipad." That is a HUGE compliment!

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.***