A trip to the park the Blue Angels, and The children's museum

This past Friday Lauren was out of school so we went to the park and played all morning long. They had a great time!
On Saturday Nana, Pops, Colton, Kenton, the Girls and me went to the Blue Angels air show. It was great! Allison loved it!! She first saw the planes and starting saying something so fast. None of us understood her but it was so cute! The other kids didn't seem to pay much attention to it. They were more concered with playing in the dirt! I still think they enjoyed it.
Yesterday I took Allison to the children's museum. It was her first time going I think.  She had a blast! She loved playing in the water fishing! Then she danced on the stage! I couldn't get her out of the firetruck! She also loved playing in the play area. She of course didn't want to leave!
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Just getting into a routine...

We are still trying to get into a routine with Lauren going to school. She is doing great with learning to read! She brings home these little print out books and she can read them! She is learning so much so fast. She got in trouble one day for kicking a boy who she said kicked her first! We also found out yesterday that her and another little girl were somewhere they shouldnt have been and saw a poison sign but Lauren knew what it meant.  We still haven't gotten the entire story on that yet! She is really bad about not giving the whole story at one time.  She just gives bits and pieces. She also tells a whole lot more to someone else than me and Jon!

Allison is trying more to say words now that Lauren isnt here to answer for her all the time. She loves having the house to herself to play and not be bothered. Allison loves to her sparkly well anything! I really think she will be the more girly girl of them! We were looking at a costume magazine the other day and all she picked out were first the sparkly shoes and then the pretty dresses!

We went to the Delta Fair last weekend and Lauren enjoyed some of the rides. She tried to slide head first down a slide but the people stopped her before she did that. It is amazing how both Girls are not scared of anything! We celebrated Jon's birthday also.

Lauren's first full week of Kindergarten

Lauren started her first full week of Kindergaren yesterday.  She did great! I did ok.  Just some tears and I was ok. Lauren almost walked across the street at pick up because she wasn't paying attention but I caught her before she did. She of course couldn't remember what they had did all day. But bits and pieces came out through out the night. I had the parent meeting last night and truly I still don't feel like I know what is going on. I feel like they are just wanting me to throw her into the school and run from her! Which today they said to only walk her down to the kindy hall.  I didn't like and Lauren was so unsure of where to go. I watched her all the way down and she only got a glimpse of me being upset. I just never thought I would have such a hard time with all of this!

Lauren's first day of Kindergarten!!

Today was Lauren's first day of Kindergarten! This week they have staggered enrollment so it was just 4 kids today. I was able to stay with her for an hour and half. We got a tour of the school and some other info that I needed. I could tell Lauren was nervous but she did fine. I tried really hard not to cry until I got to the truck...I tried! I just felt like I was leaving her at the hospital.  I felt so much better when she got out of school and said she had fun and was ready to go again! She said her favorite part was eating lunch! Once I came home this morning Allison raised her hands at me as to ask where Lauren was. I told her she was at school she just looked at me and went on playing.  She was glad to see her when she got home though. It is going to be a major change for us. It is nice being able to just walk her to school and back home. I say that until it is freezing outside!! Later Lauren told Jon and me that she thinks she is going to like going to school!

At 21 months picking out her own clothes!

So Allison has decided that she does not like the sleeper pjs anymore.  Well now the last two nights she has cried and cried because she didnt want to wear the pjs I got out for her.  This morning when I told her let's go get dressed she went straight to the closet.  I asked her if she wanted to wear an outfit she said yes...well then she changed her mind! She screamed and would not let me put the clothes on her! So I said find let's pick out another outfit.  She reached for her purple dress and took her pjs off and was ready to put the dress on! Then she told me she wanted her necklace on! And a bow! Her and Lauren are such opposites! Lauren doesn't even want to look at clothes but Allison has to choose which one she likes best!! She is going to be the expensive child!!! :)

Family vacation to Nashville

This past weekend we had our first family RV trip to Nashville.  We went to Nashville Shores waterpark and it was great!! All the kids loved it! We stopped and ate in Nashville before going to the RV park and the place we went to was called Loveless cafe.  It has been there forever and famous people always come in there.  Well Chelsea Clinton was standing right next to us! My Mom recongized her.  I thought she looked familar but I was also wondering why anyone would want to wear the hat she was wearing! Anyway it was a good meal there and off the RV park we went.  The kids were ready to play right then! So we went to the waterpark which was just a walk.  It was so nice that evening.  Hardly any people were there so Lauren and Jon were able to do the big water slides several times.  Jon said Lauren kept saying "this is so cool" My Dad and Colton did a few of the bigger slides also.  My Mom, Allison, Kenton, and me stayed around the kiddie pool.  They both could stand up so they had such a good time.  The park was closing so we went back to the RV and cooked some hotdogs. By this time is was 8 or a little after! So Jon, Alliosn, and me went to the hotel to check in. I thought Allison would be so wore out she would just pass out.  NO such luck! She talked and moved around for about an hour then finally she went to sleep.  She kept hitting her head on the headboard and very early in the morning she rolled off the bed! She went right back to sleep though.  We had to wake her up to go back to the RV so we could go to the park again.  This time the park was packed! So much that Lauren didnt even want to wait in  line to slide.  There were plenty of other things to do though.  So we did all of those! Allison really liked the wave pool also.  I was afraid she would be scared of it.  I think she is ready to go the ocean now! We did the lazy river once but she didnt much care for that. There was a small slide in the kiddie pool and she did that I dont know how many times!! About 5 Allison got so sleepy but of course once my Mom got back to the RV she was wide awake.  We all decided we had had enough and called it a day also.  We were all wore out! We got to the hotel that night and Allison found the phone.  She kept picking it up and writing on the notepad just talking away! She went to sleep faster that night.  She only talked for about 30 mins.  She also slept backwards all night long but at least she didnt fall off the bed or hit her head on the headboard. We came back on Sunday.  It was a great trip! Allison really surprised me at how well she did.  Of course in the RV she could move around and that made a huge difference in the riding to and from.

Lauren's 5 yr check up

I took Lauren for her 5 year check up last week.  She is 38lbs and 44" tall.  She was 25% in her weight and up in the 90's for her height. She is just perfect in every way! She did great with her shots.  Afterwards we went and found her a backpack for school.   It is hard to believe she will be starting school in less than a month! Time just went by so fast!