First Day of School

Last Wednesday was the first day of school. I get to go to Kindergarten this year! I was very excited to go and even made some friends on my very first day.
Stephanie doesn't get to go to school yet but she likes to be in pictures. See my new glasses? Aren't I pretty in them? I got a new Hannah Montana shirt for my first day of school. She's really cool. I don't watch her show but I know she's famous. I have some shoes of her too but they're too big and Mommy won't let me wear them to school.
Mommy bought me this new backpack for school. I LOVE TinkerBell. There is another girl in my class with a TinkerBell backpack but it's not the same as mine. Mine's cooler!

Eyeballs

I took Hayden & Meredith to the eye doctor yesterday. It was kind of a last-minute decision since they had their eyes checked at the dr's office but both John & I have bad eyes so, luckily, they could get us in before school.

My little Meredith is far-sighted. She can see up close for now but the doctor said her eyes were working 2-3 times harder than they should be to do so. So she will be getting glasses next week. She did find some frames she likes - we actually had to pry them away from her because she wasn't understanding that the frames she was looking at only have fake plastic lenses and she needs to wait until her real glasses come in before she can wear them. Luckily(?), she had to have her eyes dilated so she got some disposable sunglasses to wear home.

When we first got to the eye dr, the kids were acting all paranoid and Hayden kept saying, "Please, I don't need glasses!" so Meredith was saying it too. Hayden felt kind of bad later when he realized that she would need glasses after all.

Right now she's thinking it will be kind of cool to get to wear glasses. Yeah. We'll see how long that lasts. I just hope she doesn't get self-conscious about wearing them. I don't think it will be a problem with her but we'll have to see...

Kindergarten

I have Kindergarten Kickoff tonight. I get to meet my teacher and other kids in my class. The best part is it's at The Children's Museum which is a lot of fun. And Mommy and Hayden and Stephanie and Philip get to go with me. The bad part is that means I have to go to school soon and I'm not sure I want to.

Vacation Church School

Hayden and Meredith got to go to Vacation Church School this summer. They really, really enjoyed it.

Meredith is my little artist.
And my gardener. Did I tell you she's growing grass in my bathroom. No really - real grass - like a lawn - only in a plastic cup - I think she wants another dog.

Back to VCS - they had a program for the families on Thursday night. First they got to do some races outside. She and Hayden did the potato sack race and even tried the 3-legged race. That was funny. Then we went inside for the program. First of all, she was mad at me earlier because I wasn't at the program - Hayden had to explain to her that was just the PRACTICE not the actual program. So we made it to the actual program and, apparently, they forgot to tell her that she had to sit with me for the first part until it was time for her to sing so she was mad about that. They did that because they figured the younger kids might be scared to sit the whole time in front of all those people. Well, they didn't ask Meredith and she DID NOT want to sit with me, she wanted to be up on stage with Hayden. Finally, she got to go onstage. Luckily, I managed to catch Philip and Stephanie before they went up there with her. My cousin's husband Steve was sitting with us - I'm sure he's glad his kids are older and he doesn't normally have to put up with a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old in a church pew. To be fair, the accoustics in the church are really good and I'm sure yelling at the top of your lungs in that environment is a lot of fun for that age group. Anyway, at the end of the program, the younger children were supposed to leave the stage first. Well, Meredith stayed and wouldn't leave until Hayden got up to go too, then he grabbed her and brought her along to me.

Apparently, she's going to be my little performer too.

And just to finish off the story, on our way out of the church, the VCS leaders were standing outside. They had been in the skit too and were all dressed up including one guy who had a small crate of potatoes with him. Stephanie took one of his potatoes and had all the skin chewed off if it before we made it home.