Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day seems so early this year!  We were excited to have Andrew and Mandi home for the weekend!  They flew home Friday night.  Katherine went to the airport with Nonna to pick them up while I was at football practice with Luke.  We all had supper at our house and had fun hanging out. I worked most of the day Saturday. We got together to watch football that night.  Sunday everyone from Tullahoma came to Mom's for a cookout.  It was a lot of fun seeing everyone.  We ended tonight, big surprise, watching football!  Andrew and Mandi leave tomorrow which is sad, but they plan to be home for Thanksgiving!

Double Duty Homework

The kids were so cute doing their homework this afternoon!  They both love school!  Luke is doing well in all subjects so far.  We have seen a great improvement in Katherine.  It almost seems as though she has changed overnight.  She loves all of her friends and she is learning so much!  So far we are very happy we made the move to Davidson for her this year.  Katherine usually has one homework assignment for the week.  Luke has homework on Mondays,Tuesdays and Thursdays.  It usually consists of one book to read or a chapter book, studying for his weekly spelling test and Bible verse as well as a language arts or math worksheet.  It usually takes 15-30 minutes.

Mommy's Little Shopper

Mom and I decided to do a little shopping this afternoon.  Katherine tagged along because she loves to shop!  She especially likes HomeGoods because they have a toy section!  She always find something that she "needs".  I did not give in to the bear!  She loves to help me pick out things and seems to have pretty good taste.  She thinks everything is "so pretty, Mommy".  It is so cute!

Wilson County Fair!

I had to work today.  Paul and the kids picked me up this afternoon and we headed to the Wilson County Fair.  It is one of the biggest fairs in the state and we had never been! It was so hot today. There was so much to see and do there.  We saw all the farm equipment, animals, quilts, canning entries before we headed to the Midway.  I must say I was looking forward to the food and was pretty disappointed. We decided to get bbq sandwiches and they pretty much tasted like bbq from a 5 gallon tub from Sam's.  We didn't try anything out of the ordinary like deep fried Oreos or bacon.  The closest we came was all four of us split a funnel cake!  Katherine is not much for rides but Luke is getting into them as he gets older.  He and I waited in line for over 30 minutes to ride a little roller coaster.  He loved it so that is all that matters.  He also rode the merry go round and played a couple of games.  Katherine doesn't seem to have an adventurous side to her at all!  All in all it was a good experience but I don't know that we will be rushing back next year!

Katherine's First Day!

So excited to be going to Bubby's school!

Love these two!

Today it was Katherine's turn for the 1st day of school!  We decided in the Spring that we would go ahead and send her to Davidson this year.  It just made sense to have them both in the same place, that way they would have the same holiday schedule, snow days, etc. After some deliberation we decided to put her in K3 instead of K4. Her birthday is at the end of July so she is close to the cutoff anyway.  We hope it will give her some additional time to mature and make her more self assured as she heads into Kindergarten in a couple of years.

I was really afraid we would have some tears when we dropped her off this morning.  She has been fighting daycare for the past couple of months.  She hasn't wanted to go and has cried every morning when I dropped her off.  I was pleasantly surprised when she walked right in, gave me a hug and a kiss and told me bye-bye! I couldn't believe it, but I was so proud of her!  Luke was super proud too!

First Grade!

Hard to believe this guy is starting 1st grade! The summer flew by and here school is starting already.We were excited to know that a couple of his friends from last year are in his class again.  We are also excited about his teacher. She has been there a long time and is an excellent teacher!  First grade is supposed to be a difficult year transitioning from Kindergarten into a more rigorous academic environment.  We think Luke is up for the challenge!

She's a Helper

Katherine absolutely loves anything to do with cleaning or housework.  She actually asked for an iron for her birthday!  Nonna got her one and she loves it!  Tonight she had to iron all her doll clothes.  It was so cute!  She still loves to dust, vacuum and clean the windows!  Kind of nice to have around!