Paige (and I) Start Preschool!

Today was Paige's first day of preschool, and I taught the kids today. It was so much fun. I seriously was meant to do this. My teaching days just came back to me! I'm switching off with 3 other moms, and we do two days during the week (1 1/2 hours each time) and then we switch so that we only teach about 2 times a month. I did A is for Apple today and it went great! I set out Paige's clothes last night, and she came out of her room this morning at 8:00, and was not only dressed, but was wearing her backpack! She wore her backpack while we took Megan to school, and until preschool started at 10:00 (She did let me remove it while I did her hair however). I didn't get a picture of all four girls (one was in Disney World), but I did get a photo of her with one of her little friends that's doing preschool with us.

I also thought I'd post about a couple other things: So, over Labor Day weekend Brad took all three girls up to his parent's house and gave me a weekend ALONE (at my request). I was feeling like I needed a moment to "fill the well" so to speak, so I could do the mommy thing a bit better. Well, my sweet visiting teacher remembered that I was going to have this "scrapbooking weekend" so to speak, and she brought this by the Friday my family was leaving and she wished me Happy Scrapping!:Doesn't that just make you want to be a better visiting teacher?!

Ashlie is into EVERYTHING right now! She discovered where our toothbrushes were a while ago, and I had Brad put a child lock on the vanity drawer so we wouldn't constantly have her sucking on our toothbrushes, and what did she discover next? Well, if she climbed into the main cupboard on the vanity, she could reach inside of the toothbrush drawer! I have such a smart child!!! So now we have a child lock on the vanity cupboard as well! :) The other day I was ready to run errands with Ashlie and Paige when I just ran to get my purse and my shoes. I walk down the hall saying, "Okay, I think we're all ready to g....." and I see that Ashlie was covered in raspberry jam (which she reached on the table!)
It's fun things like this that zap your energy I tell ya, but I wouldn't trade my cutie #3 for anything.

I was telling my family about this just last night, so I thought I'd post a picture of it from about a month ago. Brad doesn't put a catcher on our lawn mower, so he doesn't have to dump the grass. This tradition started way back probably with Paige, but he almost always mows the lawn with Ashlie on his back, while I cook dinner or something. Isn't he wonderful!