The girls had their joy school Halloween party yesterday. It was full of a fashion show, fun crafts and games and yummy lunch! We had a great time!
Here are a few of the kids.....
The beautiful Sleeping Beauty!
The shy Tinkerbell:)
The cutest little witch....aka Hope
Today is the first time that I haven't had either one of my kids in forever. Well, at least when I'm not going to work or on a rare date with my hubby. I am completely alone and I can't believe how much I got done!!! I wanted to make sure I took advantage of the non interrupted time. As soon as I got home, I cranked on the radio (twilight dvd;), vacuumed out the van and cleaned it out, watered my plants (they have been neglected lately;), picked up the upstairs, turned on the tv and turned it on something other than channel 10, picked up the downstairs and straightened up, vacuumed the whole downstairs, washed the dishes and about every sippy cup we have, cleaned the kitchen, threw away old food in the fridge, put some laundry in the washer and now writing this post!! Woohoo!! I think I'm going to like this joy school better than preschool! I get to drop off BOTH of my kiddos:) I love my baby girls but man...you can get so much done when they are off playing and having fun!!!
And I can't believe my baby girl is going to be two on Friday!!! Where did the time go??? We are just going to do a simple, go to the park with maybe some pizza and cake thing, with just the grandparents. Miss J.J. is very shy at the moment and she just buries her head when there are too many people around. So, I thought about what my girl would want and what would make her happy for her day and a playground with not very many people it is going to be!!
I think she also has more of her molars but she doesn't let me in her mouth that long to check before she bites me!! But this is to document that she has got at least a couple of them:)
I think I did pretty good on my first time teaching Joy School. We had a rough morning so things were pretty stressed before everyone showed up. I worked really hard putting it together though and although I wish it went smoother, it went fine for having been the first time (for all of us;) It was hard to keep them paying attention and our Lady made it worse. They all wanted to pet her or play with her (and Lady was loving every minute of it). I even tried to put her upstairs (cause there is no way I'm putting my dog out in the heat....not a chance) but she just kept crying to come back down. All in all, I think it turned out great and it will be a good experience for Makenna! She kept asking me when we were going to go to school the whole time though!! I don't think she was expecting it to be at our house with mommy being the teacher! But she will get to go to another house next week!!
Travis was home with us all summer and the girls got very used to it. The first day back, Jordyn came downstairs and didn't see her daddy. She points upstairs and said, "night night??" She wanted to go up and wake him up! It was so cute. And the other day, Makenna asked where daddy was. I told her he was at work and she said that he needed to stop that and come home with us! Love it and gotta love a great daddy:)
We also have decided to not put Makenna in preschool. It's just too expensive right now and I don't know if I was ready to send her to strangers yet:) Fortunately, some wonderful ladies asked me to do joy school with them. I think this will be wonderful and be just as good if not better than preschool. It will be with women that I know and trust and it gives me a chance to participate as well and be with my cutie. I'm thrilled that I was asked to do this and I think Makenna is going to love learning and doing new things and spending time with her friends. We also are going to take turns watching the younger ones each week and I hope that Jordyn enjoys that and that it helps her come out of her shell.
