Eliana: Counting

Mommy: Ellie, if you fall off the couch there you're going to break my arm.
Daddy: Ellie, if you break her arm she won't be able to wipe your butt.

Eliana: Daddy, Mommy has two arms.

Elianas' Birthday 9/3/07

Some pictures from Eliana's birthday cupcakes from 9/3/07. We had a joint party a few weeks ago, yesterday was just some cupcakes which they both liked very much. Eliana mostly ate the frosting off, one bite at a time, whilst Jayden ate the frosting off in one bite.

I realized...

I dropped the kids off at school at 8:35am, and then got back home at 8:35pm, to put them to bed. Long day!

I asked Jayden about his day, he was as reticent as always to talk about it. Ellie listened to my prompting of Jayden and made it her own -- she climbed up and said:

"I had fun at school, I have lots of friends at school; Kayley is in my class;I had fun at school, I have lots of friends at school; Kayley is in my class;I had fun at school, I have lots of friends at school; Kayley is in my class"

Which was just cute as can be in her little voice. Kayley, of course, is in Jaydens' class, not hers. But that's all right. She loved it, and will be very happy to go back thursday.

Messy Face

First Day of School

Today was back-school-day!

Jayden and Eliana went to school today; Jayden returning, and Eliana for the first time. They were both very excited. I woke Ellie up at 7:30, and she didn't even have her eyes open before she asked about her backpack and lunchbag.

When we got there, Daniella was just dropping off his friend Kayley, so Jayden was even more excited. Kayley used the security button to call in, and said "This is Kayley", when they answered. That meant Jayden had to do it as well -- a big change from last year, when he wouldn't talk into it.

We got inside, he ran down the stairs and into his classroom, where he sat with Kayley for snack time and then went right up front for the days jobs talk (weather, moods, etc).

I took Eliana across the hallway to her Little Stars classroom, showed her which bin was hers. She bopped right over and put her backpack in, then the teacher had her painting a flat apple, and she barely had time to give me a kiss before forgetting about me entirely :)

We didn't get pictures, Lynda had the camera and arrived late from school, so I'll get 2nd day of school pictures instead :)