Fair Time!

We love our little county fair. The kids and I look forward to it all year. There is nothing like fair rides and fried food combined with the smell of farm animals. ;)

The kids getting ready to compete in the tractor pull. Micah came in third for his age group!

The Cousins showing their pigs at the fair. Kylee and Kaden came in third place! So proud of them! They worked so hard.

Glasses, loose teeth, and turning 6!

I sometimes get so busy taking care of four kids that I forget how quickly they are growing up. The other day while driving Ella reminded me of this when she told me, "mommy, my tooth is wiggly." I was reminded that she is at the stage where she's going to start losing her baby teeth! I have a baby who will be getting his first tooth within the next few months, a toddler who's final two teeth have almost popped through and now a six year old who's ready to lose her first tooth. So we are in all the baby teeth stages. Then I took Ella in for her yearly eye appointment to see if her eye sight had improved since the previous year. We found out she is near sighted and will have to wear glasses. So I feel like this last month she has grown up so much! Starting school, loose teeth, and glasses! :(
God chose a wobbly tooth as a reminder to me that my kids are all growing up so fast and that I need to try my best to enjoy every stage they are in. Then to top it all off she had to go and turn six on me! It's a little too much for this mama!
     We celebrated Ella's birthday with a pool party at the YMCA. The kids had a blast swimming and the parents got to relax and drink coffee so it was the perfect party! ;)
On her actual birthday she woke up to birthday waffles. We made cupcake cake pops to bring for her class treat. I brought them during her lunch time and passed them out to her class. It was fun to see her eating lunch with her new friends. After school I took her to pick out her new bike! Ella requested Northstar Cafe for her birthday dinner. It's one of my favorite places to eat so I was happy! After, we got ice cream at Jenni's. We wrapped up the birthday celebration with a family bike ride. It was the perfect end to the perfect day :)

Micah's big week.

Micah has started his final year of preschool. Now the fun begins of driving two kids to two different schools three days a week ;) This will also be our last year at this wonderful preschool (for a couple years) until it's Rilynn's turn to go. They really do go to the best preschool and I have been so thankful we have been able to send Ella and Micah. Micah has the teacher Ella had last year and she's the best! On top of starting preschool he also had his first soccer game this past weekend. He did so good for his first time playing. He was able to stay with the ball and keep up with the other kids. He had so much fun and it was really cute watching him play.

InstaFriday

It's been a few weeks since I linked up with Jeannett over at Life Rearranged. (one of my new favorite blogs by the way) Here is our week in cell phone pics. Went to Cincinnati and stopped at one my favorite places last weekend, Ikea! Before heading home we stopped off for some sugar cookies at the famous Busken Bakery First Day of School First Day of School tradition of going to Starbucks after school is over There was a lot of brotherly love going on this week, so sweet Rilynn looked super cute wearing her hoodie, wouldn't take it off I had three very cute kitchen helpers helping me make dinner. Mom, I think you need to make Micah a new apron ;) Her first night of homework Rilynn got a new Dora Doll this week and the two are inseparable Micah and I worked on legos one day while Ella was at school. I discovered that I probably love assembling these more then he does ;) Rilynn enjoyed her waffle breakfast

One and Two

Henry is two months already! *sniff sniff* I'm slowly packing away the newborn onesies and sleepers and trying to take in every last newborn snuggle I can. I kiss his soft little head about a million times a day taking in his sweet little newborn smell before it's gone for good. I really love the newborn stage, it's one of my absolute favorites and of course the stage that goes the fastest. Soon I will see another newborn and wonder "Was he ever that small!?!?" and I will find a newborn diaper stuffed away someday and wonder "did these really fit you!?!" :( Here are a few pics from Henry's first two months. I didn't take out the big camera and snap two month pictures yet so the cell phone pics will have to suffice for now. 7 Days Old.. 1 Month Old.. 2 Months..