First day of school 2013

The girls were so excited about going to school today! Kara was up super early, we're not sure exactly how early though. she opened the curtains in everyone's rooms so no one would oversleep. When I came downstairs in the morning, she was fully dressed with her hair done, playing 3DS while she waited for us. She didn't wear the clothes I set out for her, but I figured it's good to let her make those decisions if she wants to. 

Kiersten was excited to finally get to wear her new clothes. She was even more excited to ride the bus. she's in afternoon kindergarten, but I signed her up to go to adventure club in the mornings on tuesday through thursday, because Evie has preschool those days in the morning, so I thought it would be easier if she could just ride to school with Kara. That way I wont have to be rushing between picking Evie up and getting Kiersten to school at the same time. 

And a picture with Evie so she wouldn't get her feelings hurt. Her school doesn't start for a couple weeks. She has been sad a couple times today that she can't go to school yet, so I keep getting her excited for Mommy-Evie time. It's working so far, even though all we've done besides go to the gym is have lunch and read books. But there will be lots of time for us to do fun stuff without the others around. 

the bus stop kids. and a few younger siblings too. Kara keeps telling Keirsten that they can't sit together, because they're supposed to sit by grade level. Kiersten was pretty worried about it until we reminded her about her friend who would be riding the bus as well. So that made her pretty excited for the bus to arrive this morning. 

She was all smiles as soon as she heard the bus making it's way up the hill. 

And off she went. I hope they're having a fun first day!

the girls wanted to go to the park yesterday for their last day of summer vacation. 

it started raining pretty much as soon as we got there, but they wanted to play anyway. After eating lunch, and about 20 minutes of play time, there started to be some lightning, so we left. 

The other things they wanted to do were ride bikes and go to the pool, but the thunderstorm lasted for a bit, so I told them to think of an indoor activity. They decided to make houses for their stuffed animals. I just painted and reorganized the pantry this weekend, so we happened to have plenty of empty food boxes for them to save from the recycle bin. 

Evie made a house for her bunny, carrot. Hers was pretty simple, but she's happy with it. 

She kept begging me to tape it shut on the side. I was trying to explain that her bunny couldn't get in and out, but she wouldn't hear it, and just kept insisting. So I finally did it, and within 3 minutes she came back to me upset that she couldn't get her bunny in there, and wanted me to remove the tape. Silly girl...

The big girls spent over 2 hours working on their houses. I even asked them if they'd like to bake cookies, but they just wanted to work on the homes. Kara made a mail box, bed, couch, tv, and more accessories. 

Kiersten tried to make a few things for her house, but got quickly frustrated with the gluing, and decided to make lots of artwork for the walls instead. 

Kara is pretty proud of the stairs she made for hers. Around the time I was getting dinner ready, they started freaking out about getting their houses upstairs so Daddy wouldn't think they were trash and throw them away. Once they had the mess cleaned up, they decided they would like to make cookies after all, but we had to leave for back to school night at CCL for Kara. 

I am happy for them to be in school again learning new things, but I sure do miss them already!