School is starting soon!

This is cut and pasted from my other blog:


Cynthia will be starting pre-k in August!!! OMG! Do you realize how soon that is?! I felt sick and wanted to throw up when I realized just how soon that is. Not only that but I need to buy her clothes for school! We can't afford that! I guess we have to afford them. I just don't know if we can get her enough for school. I just don't want her to have the same experience that I did at the beginning of every school year. Go the day before school starts, get 2 pair of jeans a few shirts (3-5) and 1 pair of shoes. And that was it. Am I being materialistic? I don't think so but I don't know. Anyway I want my girls to be able to have more clothes than that. Not a ton of expensive stuff but just more variety than jeans and shirts. I don't feel like I ever learn how to dress right. Whatever. This isn't about me (not too much) it's about Cynthia's school clothes!

And speaking of clothes, I just went through Meagan's closet and she has nothing to wear for the summer! Well not very much. More than Cynthia but not very much. And because they have such different body types I'm not sure I will be able to hand them down from Cynthia to Meagan. That's why I had them so close together! Oh well.

I'm so jealous!

Cynthia is at her 1st birthday party that is not for a family member AND at a bounce-house place! How fun is that! Scott said the adults get to play too. Oh! I wish I were there! I was going to take her but woke up this am with my eye swollen shut. I think it's pick-eye. Yuck! Anyway, he is sending me periodic texts and pictures to keep me updated. She looks like she is having so much fun! (I am a little jealous because she always seems to have so much fun when he's around-she might have fun with me too if I ever left the house)

Meagan

This picture was taken with my phone (I know-it sucks) This is Meagan wearing a 3T dress. She is only 20mo. I know it's a little long, but not much...

Family Night at VBS

Tonight was the last night of VBS. Even though Cynthia had a lot of fun I'm glad it's over. (The drive out there really blow our budget this month for gas.) They put on a little show where the kids sang and danced (or whatever you call it). It was really cute! She did pretty good I thought. She had a lot of fun.

Afterwards there was food and games. But Mother Nature had something else in mind. When most of the people were done eating-it started to rain. So we all went back inside for a little while. The kids played and sang waiting for the rain to stop. THEN there were tornado warning or watches (whichever is worse-I always forget). She the bounce house and games were cancelled. She was so disappointed.

Now by this time Meagan was really getting to be a handful. I was going to leave with her and let Scott and Cynthia get a ride home with my mom. That didn't happen either. My mom decided to go ahead and go. Then we were about to leave and they (the church people) said there had been a tornado spotted not too far away. YAY FOR US! So we stayed. And waited. And waited. And waited. Hail came. Didn't lose power though, that was good. I was glad we were inside, but I really wanted to get home and check on Gabriel. I had put him out before we left. I didn't know it was going to storm again. Poor baby!

Anyway, we finally got to go home. Stopped and got the girls something to eat in case our power was off again (it wasn't). Pulled the car in the garage (so if the tree falls it won't hit the car). We all ate and they are all in bed now. I can't sleep of course.

peek into a DILT....

This morning Cynthia is sitting on the floor wearing her new swim suit playing with her new playdoh (her reward for being good and paying attention). Very cute sight, but no pics.

Meagan has been helping me put the trash can, the diaper pail and laundry hamper back in her room. Then she helps me put her baby gate in her doorway.

They are just so cute! (if I do say so myself)

Day 3 at VBS

She had so much fun! I'm really glad she's having fun. She is having some trouble paying attention and listening and sitting still. Same at home. I think that's pretty normal for a 4 year old. I think they may be expecting a little too much from the little kids. They have 4yoolds to 6th grade all in the same class! They are supposed to learn a Bible verse. Okay. But in one day?! It's the same one that the big kids are supposed to learn. I think that is a little much for her age group. So we (Scott & I) will give her rewards for trying. (They get prizes for memorizing verse). If she really tries to learn it she gets something special. Not a toy or candy necessarily but something she doesn't normally do. For example she tried really hard to learn her verse and behave last night so if the weather clears up she gets to go swimming today. (maybe tomorrow-just heard more thunder) And I bought doughnuts. But that's cuz I wanted them not just for doing good at VBS.

The weather was crazy last night. Big storms. Lost power a couple of times for several hours. We have white noise machines in all the bedrooms. We use them to sleep. Meagan can sleep through almost anything! They other day the power went out and her fan and sound machine were off. She didn't stir! Then last night I put her down with just her mobile music and no fan or sound machine. She went to sleep just fine! When the power came back on, I went in there to turn her stuff on and she didn't still! Glad she sleeps so well.

Also, Cynthia has decided she needs to carry a purse-just like Mommy! :D For those of you who don't know Cynthia is a HUGE daddy's girl so when she does stuff like that it is really special. She also wants a new camera so she can have one like Mommy's. I told her when she gets older maybe we could get her a new one even if it's not exactly like Mommy's. She has a Fisher-Price Kid tough camera and I have a Nikon. Not really a comparison. lol

VBS

Cynthia went to her 1st VBS tonight. That is the 1st time I have EVER left her with someone that wasn't family or a REALLY good friend. It was so scary! (for me) I sat out in the parking lot for about 30min talking to Scott on the phone. I kept looking in the rearview mirror expecting to see a little red blur running toward the car. She did fine. Better than mommy did, that's for sure!

She seemed to have fun. She was SOOOOOO tired! It is over at 8:30pm which is way past her bedtime. She said the grownups forgot to let them play. lol I explained to her that school is for learning. Sunday School is for learning about God and Jesus. VBS is learning about the Bible. School is for LEARNING. She didn't really get it.

It was pretty funny. I bet she won't be out of bed for anything tonight!