tired pink day

Oma came to visit yesterday.
She watched Gibson play soccer and then stayed up a little late telling stories with the kids.


So, Haven was extra sleepy this morning at 7:00
She had to sit down to brush her teeth.

Looking sleepy with her chocolate milk. Her baby brother was up early too. All who voted pink win......... um............. a high five.

Gibson's 1st soccer practice

Gibson is in the blue and white.

Some of Haven's work

What Haven made on her first day.

Two books Haven can read. (see video below)
This one below is "Shape Monster"
This is her Shape Monster face!!

above are "color songs" that Haven has learned, sung to familiar tunes.

green day and rainbow day

Wednesday was green day!

Today was rainbow day!

Above is her eye color homework.
Below is my collection of hers and Gibson's work since school started.

more colors

Here's here purple day attire.

Today was orange day.

We have cute flowers for her hair.

Part of color week is to find out who in her family has what color eyes. We can do pets and friends too.

The options are blue, green, or brown.

Tomorrow is green day and then rainbow day.

So, far I have two votes that Haven will be wearing pink for favorite color day.

colors week

Haven is studying colors this week and next week in Pre-K
Tuesday was red day. (Oma's favorite)

We forgot to take a picture yesterday for Yellow day.
(look Grani, it's pinkie pie)

Today was blue day. We bought colored socks and special hair bands for her hair this week.
Tomorrow is purple day which is also the school color.

Next week is orange green (for bernard), and rainbow and favorite color day.
Who can guess what color Haven is wearing for favorite color day???

car bump

Yesterday on the way to pick up Andrew from work, the kids and I got into a little tiny wreck. (My first official one)

Thankfully, no one was hurt AND we were really close to Andrew's work, so he was able to get a ride out to us.

This kids were really excited about seeing a police man.

(they wanted to know when the police men were going to take the guy that hit us to JAIL!)

When I told the police man that, he laughed really hard.

He waved bye to the kids and then gave Elam a high 5. Elam grabbed his hand and wouldn't let go! I think he really wanted to go with him! Later we asked him if he liked the police man and he said, "uhh hmm" Then we asked if he wanted to be a plice man and he said, "uhh hmm!"

You'll have to call and ask the kids about it.

leading worship downtown

Andrew led worship today at our churches downtown plant.
It started with "Every move I make".
The kids sang along and played instruments.

funny story about Haven

Having the kids in two different times in school does have it's benefits.
The main one being that I get to have more individual time with them.
More so with Haven than Gibson.

When Haven is home with me in the afternoon, Elam is taking a nap, so we really get to hang out just us girls.

Our dishwasher has been broken for about a week now, and I was behind on washing all our dishes because I was out of dish soap, but I finally got some and it was time to wash.

Haven was very eager to help me, so we spent, probably an hour washing dishes.
(it took ALOT longer with her "helping" but it was well worth the time)

She was so proud of our effort that she began to predict what Gibson and Daddy would say when they got home later.

She said Andrew would come home and say, "Haley, what happened to all the dishes?!"

Funny thing #1 Andrew doesn't call me Haley, he usually calls me "momma"
So, she changed it to, "Momma, Momma, Momma, what happened to all the dishes?"

Funny (and sad) thing #2 Both Andrew and Gibson would never EVER notice something like a sink full of dishes that had been washed, not to mention all the counters cleaned.

I didn't have the heart to tell her that our efforts were appreciated by us and us alone

I'm glad we have each other.

Haven's first day of school

Today was Haven's first day of Pre-K. She is going to Bethany elementary. (hopefully, Gibson will get in the same school, if not this year, than next year)

She goes in the MORNING, so, we were up BEFORE daddy and left at the same time.

Here's her tote bag.

She's off to hang her tote bag up.

This is Tate. She and Haven went to Mother's Day out together.

Before I left, we watched her sit on the carpet and say the pledge.

Just 2 1/2 hours later, it was time to pick her up.

There she is in blue. She waved at me. Later she told Grani she saw me taking her picture from the car.

Only Andrew will understand how shocked I was that she didn't cry today. Since the Spring, around April she began crying whenever we dropped her off places. Even places she was used to going to. Mother's Day Out and Sunday School involved her crying at drop off and even crying during the class.
I've been talking about school with her all summer and evertime, she would say she wanted me there with her and that she was going to cry. I would even try saying, "We can get you a special new outfit or something special for you to take with you." and her response was, "That won't help, I'll still cry."

Seeing familiar faces in her class must have really helped her. She also took Gibson to school for a week before she started. She and I had special mommy daughter time while Gibson was gone.
I guess all those things helped.

I wish you could have seen her sweet and brave smile and wave when Gibson, Elam and I left her room this morning. NO TEARS.

She had such a great day!

Meet the teacher

Tuesday was "meet the teacher day" for Haven
It was from 11:30-12:30
Remember, Gibson goes to school at 12:30, so we had to get there and be done in time to take him to school.

The plan was to run and pick up Grandma so she could watch Elam while Haven and I met Mrs. Tidwell.

WELL, Andrew had the keys, so this is the kids waiting for daddy.

When we got to school, we found Haven's room and her special hook where she will hang her tote bag everyday.

There were little cubbies and a fun kitchen set to play with.

Haven knew several other kids from Mother's Day Out.

Here they are singing, "Waiting on Daddy to bring the keys."