Wow, I haven't updated in a while...haven't really been too extraordinarily busy & nothing really big going on.
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Olivia --- 1st grade is going well. She likes her teacher. She likes seeing her friends. She does NOT like getting up & ready at 6:45 am. She does NOT like riding the bus anymore. She is generally ticked off that Rachel gets to "play" all day long & she is forced to go to school. She cried this morning, I'm talking huge crocodile tears. "Please don't make me go to school." News Flash: It's September 10th; which translates to a VERY LONG SCHOOL YEAR if this continues. What can I say, she definitely gets her emotional side from me.
{Wow, that sounds like she is the "problem child". Which is certainly not the case, but I figured I just put that all out there.}
Olivia is also doing very well in school. I made her some flash cards & we practice her 18 basic words {I, have, a, an, big, little, yellow, red, blue, it, is, and, the, in, see, can, be, & my}. She is going to have a vocabulary test next week & we are confident that she will pass with flying colors. I am so proud of her. She is learning, & it is wonderful to see her grow mentally.
Oh, and she loves wearing that denim vest! Cracks me up! She is ever-so-much the girly girl these days. She wants to be Hermione Granger (from Harry Potter) for Halloween. I plan on making her costume - wish me luck!
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Rachel --- Still my sassaroon. She is hysterically funny. She is talking more & more every day. Her being very vocal is starting to crack me up. She threw her pacifier at me last night & it hit me in the nose. I just looked at her & she said "uh-oh Rachey hit, Rachey not nice" haha - hard to hold in the laughter on that one. Gotta love a 2 year old talking about herself in the third-person.
FYI - Rachel hates spaghettios. This is proof...she kept pushing the bowl away saying "it's a yucky, Mama, it's a yucky".
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Me --- I got to have a girls' night in with my BFF Haley the other night. It was so much fun! She has graciously offered to give me cooking/baking lessons. I'm pretty stoked about it. I ain't gonna lie - I'm not that good. I desire to be good at such things, which is why I want her to teach me.
I decorated the house for fall over the weekend & did some furniture rearranging. I love that kind of stuff. Jarrett always tells me "you always have big plans" that ain't no lie! I plan on squeezing in some work on the big project known as the mantle at some point this weekend too. Which means, a trip to LOWE'S - aka one of my favorite stores.
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This weekend is the Kenney Fall Festival. I'm pretty excited about that too. Not a tremendous amount of things to do, but it's my hometown, and I have to represent! The girls will have a good time. I'm hoping the rain in the forecast for practically all day Saturday holds off. Olivia is looking forward to having her face painted there. She wants to be a tiger. Rachel will freak out if we try - that's my prediction.
As much as I am looking forward to the festival, I'm going to be sad. This will be the first big "thing" where I will completely notice that my Grandpa is gone. He always had a stand set up selling his woodworking items. So, I'm fairly certain once I arrive and see his spot empty or taken over by a different stand, I will have a pretty hard time. But it's ok, I'm anticipating it because I know it will happen. I'm chalking it up to all being part of the healing process.
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That's all for now...Hopefully i will get some more posts ready to go for next week with some of the several pictures I have taken over the past couple of weeks.
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This weekend is the Kenney Fall Festival. I'm pretty excited about that too. Not a tremendous amount of things to do, but it's my hometown, and I have to represent! The girls will have a good time. I'm hoping the rain in the forecast for practically all day Saturday holds off. Olivia is looking forward to having her face painted there. She wants to be a tiger. Rachel will freak out if we try - that's my prediction.
As much as I am looking forward to the festival, I'm going to be sad. This will be the first big "thing" where I will completely notice that my Grandpa is gone. He always had a stand set up selling his woodworking items. So, I'm fairly certain once I arrive and see his spot empty or taken over by a different stand, I will have a pretty hard time. But it's ok, I'm anticipating it because I know it will happen. I'm chalking it up to all being part of the healing process.
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That's all for now...Hopefully i will get some more posts ready to go for next week with some of the several pictures I have taken over the past couple of weeks.
