More school adventures

Professional Walker! :)

Had to wear her little pink ring during the walk today. In this picture she said, "Hey mom! Take a picture of my cute ring!"

Jacob's cheese and ham inspired by my mom telling me that I used to love having gingerbread shaped food in my lunch growing up. Cute! So the first day he had ham and cheese cut with the letter J. :) I'm a dork and I love this fun stuff.

My cute little walkers :)

New Book

This is the next little chapter book we're going to read together. I'm so excited!!

First Day of Kindergarten!!!

He's so cute :) He wanted every shot to include his new Transformers Lunch Box

School is close by so we will be walking to school in the mornings and walking home on the days that the weather is good. (will that ever happen here in Texas?:) The walk is 20 minutes each way. Sooner or later I'll add a jogging stroller into the mix...so I can get a little more exercise than a leisurely walk with the kiddos. I love the time we have to walk together.

Cheesy smile. Jacob marched right into the classroom, put his backpack in the cute lockers that look like he's in a high school, then sat right down. He was so ready to get started.

Then, he got right to work! I had to practically beg him to say goodbye to me :) That's better than the alternative that's for sure. No tears, no screaming. Awesome.

After school he was so excited to tell me all about this fun thing they do in the gym called "P.E." Cute right?!!

Later when Jacob and I had what he calls our "ABC Date" he started our learning session by laying out all the ground rules for us if we're going to be on the "green paw coyote team". I think that has something to do with being a good student at school. He was so excited while talking about it and I was cracking up. He told me the rules, which must have some resemblance of the real ones but I can't be sure... :) At least this is what he got out of it...

Rule #1 Don't touch anything.

Rule # 2 Do not eat.

Rule #3 Don't do anything else.

Rule #4 Don't kill anyone.

(seriously? how did he get that one)

OK, so those rules sound like a prison. He was very stern and told them to me over and over until I wrote them on a sticky note and drew a green paw on the top. Its was hilarious. I swear he had a blast at school yesterday! hehe. He said it was a long day and he loved it.

At the end of the day when I was tucking him in he was so cute and asked if dad was going to give him another Father's blessing before his 2nd day of school. So sweet. One of the moments that I wish would just last forever.

ps..just looked it up...its .7 miles to the school.

well hello

So, I started using Project Life so I've been a little more diligent about taking pictures daily, or at least every time we're clean :) haha. So this is a funny shot from yesterday.

Mommy & Jacob Date Night Movie...

Jacob talking about his map :)

Reading

I have a sweet friend in Colorado that one time casually spoke about how she loves reading Chapter Books each night to her kiddos. The book she was reading at that time was The Tale of Despereaux. I remember thinking she was amazing and inspirational for soooo many reasons, but this one quickly topped the list. She helped me to have to courage to attempt reading chapter books with my kiddos.

We just started reading The Boxcar Children. Its a cute little chapter book by Gertrude Chandler Warner that was first published in 1942. One of my favorite Grade School Teachers Mrs. Brinks used to read this book aloud to us each day at school. She had cute little voices for each of the characters in the book. This book was magical to me because of the magic that Mrs. Brinks created when she read to our class. I won't be doing voices while reading...but I am having a blast! This is waaaaay better than Dr. Seuss but I still have Fancy Nancy on the top of the list :) We read 50 pages the first day! Lexi ducked out around page 30 but Jacob was fascinated with story and loved the adventures!

Happy Sunday :)

j

Mommy & Jacob Date

These are pictures of Jacob explaining how to get to Target and the Soda place with the map he drew for us to follow. Just like Jacob :)

This is his first experience with the "Red Blear Float" That's cute, I didn't correct his cute name. He's growing so fast...I like his silly names.

My cute boy and I had Soda Floats (Root Beer Floats:) then went school supplies shopping! It was so fun just me and him. He's such a big boy. Its so fun to see his transformation over the past few months as we prepare for school and he's so stinkin excited for Kindergarden. More updates and pictures soon...he starts school on Aug. 22! :)