Happy BIrthday Uncle EL!

We love the lake and have so much fun when we are there. I will caption these photos soon! The look on her face tells how much fun we had!

We had a great Labor Day weekend at the lake celebrating Uncle Elliott's 31st birthday! Thanks Melissa and Elliott for LOTS of fun! Pictures will be addes soon....

Funnies....

My child is absolutely hilarious....
Today Margaret and I babysat for a patient of mine. When we (the baby and I) picked Marg up from school she was delighted. She very cheerfully announced as we were walking to the car, "If she (Zoe) needs a blanket, NO PROBLEM, she can use mine!"
about 3 seconds later, "If she can't sit up so well, NO PROBLEM, I've got a Bumbo!"
while driving home, "Today, Zoe will be Madeline's big sister. I will be Zoe's big sister!"
Margaret was very sweet and helpful with Zoe this afternoon! She was anxious to help throw away any and all diapers that I changed and peek at her MANY times during her nap.

Margaret also announced to me that she needed to get Vivian's address so I can "put it in the TomTom and get there for her birthday party". Obviously there was birthday talk today and it was discussed that Vivian and Megan have b-days on the same day or sometime close together. Margaret announced " I have to go to Megan's party! I can't let her down because she is my best friend!" She thought it would be a good idea to send some other friends (with a video camera) to Vivian's party and we could take a video camera to Megan's party and then it would be like everyone got to go to both. THis was actually a LONG and detailed conversation on her part. She wanted to figure out how it would all happen! I wonder what those girls talked about today to get all of this into Margaret's head.....their birthdays are not until December! It was all TOOO funny!

First Day of 4 Year Old Kindergarden

Margaret is very exciting about enjoying another great year at St. Andrews! Her first day was yesterday.....Madeline was up and dressed early and ready for school too! When Margaret got to her new class, her teacher, "Miss" DeLynn got a very special chair for Madeline to sit in. Margaret was reluctant to tell me about her day....as she said "All I did was just WORK!" I later found out that she also had lots of fun. I ran into Megan and Will coming in on their first day as I left Margaret's classroom. Margaret said that Megan is still her best friend, even though they can't sit at the same table this year!

Painting by Numbers

Margaret has discovered the joy of painting and creating art! We have started afternoon art lately and Margaret and I both have really enjoyed it! In these pictures, Margaret is working on her first paint by numbers picture to give to her Cousin Anne. The picture has two horses in it and Margaret wanted to give it to Cousin Anne as a good luck gift since she was riding in a horse show this past weekend. Today we painted watercolor princesses. Margaret is quite a budding artist and it is a lot of fun!!

"We Match!"

Margaret was very excited the a week or so ago when we got dressed for church and matched! We had to snap a picture....I sometimes feel like I have a minature little me following behind and on this day our clothes were even alike! Thanks Auntie Emily for the dress!! If only we had Alexandra to match with us!!!

Magical Purple Princess Fairy

Margaret has been laying out her clothes each night before she goes to bed since she is now an "all grown up 4 year old"......During my first week of school, Margaret stayed with her Mimi while I worked, since her school did not start until yesterday. On night she was very excited to set her outfit out on her ottoman....she planned to be a "Magical Purple Princess Fairy." Margaret asked her Mimi close her eyes as I dropped her off so she could get her wings on before she even got in the house (she had to take them off to fit in her car seat). I snuck in her room to take this picture after she fell asleep the night before she became a Magical Purple Princess Fairy!

Happy Birthday Morgan!

We really enjoyed attending Morgan's B-day party on Sunday afternoon! Pictures are coming soon!