Kindergarten Here I Come

On Thursday Brookley started her very first day of real school. We know it is part of life and that every kid has to go at some point but it's still sad to see your child grow up. Brookley was very excited but a little nervous that the kids might be mean to her on the playground. We don't know where that came from but she really wasn't too concerned about it. I mean who couldn't love our little Brookley? Her teacher is Mrs. Freisen (we think that's how you spell her name) and Brookley loves her so far. The parents were invited to the first hour of class on the first day, but it was so boring Dad said he had to leave for work quite a bit earlier than he really did. Nothing's really much different than when Brookley was in preschool other than we can't just take her out of school very often without getting in trouble.

On Monday Evan started his preschool again. We were looking forward to him getting back to Mrs. Bremmer because she was really good but unfortunately she moved to another school and working afternoons. His new teacher Mrs. Mitchell seems like she'll be a great teacher also.

Of course with the kids off to school now Hadlee gets all of the attention she wants from Mom. She's doing fine other than she is crawling quite good now and follows Mom all over the house.

Wet n' Wild

Considering how hot it has been around here we've needed some water to cool us down. A couple of weeks ago Aunt Cathy took the family, except for Dad, up to Lake Kaweah with her boat. We had a lot of fun and even rode behind the boat on the tube, well we left Hadlee in the boat since she's a little small still.

Then last week we headed up to the mountains with the Stagg's for a now annual mountain swimming day. We first of all headed up to Buckeye Flats and did some bridge jumping. Then a couple of hours later we headed down to the waterfall by Potwisha and did some water sliding. That was a lot of fun also except it was a little steep in one spot and Mom slipped right on her butt and bruised it up a bit. She's sitting funny but is getting better.