Documenting life...: 1st day of school.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

1st day of school.

Jaren started 3rd grade.

Tanner 2nd

Maddie, 5th (heaven help us all)

Malia, Heather, Maddie and Hannah They love eachother. :)

Tae started a week later. Kindergarten. She LOVES it. I tried talking her into missing one day to stay home with her cousins, and she said "i will go to kindergarten every single DAY!!! I'm never ever missing!" Needless to say, she loves it.

She goes to the office every day at 10 and has her blood sugar checked. She's a trooper.

As you can see, she could have cared less about leaving me. I must admit, I shed a tear leaving the school that day. She's one incredible little lady.

5 comments:

C'est La Vie said...: i dread the day my 1st goes off to school...luckily i've got what? 5 years.

when i saw you updated i almost didn't come look cuz i had a dream last night that i already read your update. i'm assuming it's bc you posted it on fb last night but aren't you honored to be in my dreams?

ps sometimes at work i pull your blog up in the background just for your music. love it; October 13, 2011 at 8:54 AM
Anonymous said...: Gosh, Jen! I thought having three in school was a big deal - but four?! At least I've got 3 years before I have to deal with that. I don't know about you, but I drown under a sea of worksheets and spelling tests on a daily basis. So much so that I've started putting the stuff I want to keep in special, child-specific boxes, and throw the rest away almost immediately. Glad you're blogging again. :); October 13, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; October 13, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Meredith said...: Oh my gosh, Taelyn looks SO big in those pictures!!! Wow!

I sometimes think the first day of school is harder on the Mommies than the kids!; October 14, 2011 at 6:18 AM
Karen Rowley said...: Didn't I already write here ? I remember doing it... The kids look so great! And don't you wish you could be a fly on the wall and see your kids there in school, how they really are? They are so precious.; October 17, 2011 at 11:50 PM

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Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.