Happy Kiddo

Thomas is one happy kiddo lately. His first week at EUMK was a huge success. He loves his teachers, Ms. Laura and Ms. Heidi. He also loves all of the fun things they get to do....color with markers (not allowed at our house), cut play dough with real scissors, cook in he kitchen, feed the hamster carrots, read books and sing songs. I don't know how they cram so much fun in all before 2:00!

On Tuesday, his teachers gave Thomas a special sticker because he was the only kid who sang out loud during song time and he knew all the words! He was so proud to show me his sticker when I came to pick him up. He is constantly singing at home. We sing all different songs and he is sweet to ignore my awful voice!

                     

Last week, we had a huge limb fall out of the tree in our front yard. Thankfully, it missed the house! It was such a big limb that it covered almost the entire front yard. Thomas pulled up a chair to look at the tree while Dada was inspecting!

The men came on Friday to clean it up. Thomas and I sat in the dining room window and watched for over an hour. He was mesmerized by the chainsaws, "bobcat," and chipper. Mighty Machines was live at our house that day! He loved to watch the chipper "chew the tree up and spit it out!"

                      

Busy weekend and week....LuLu moved this past weekend. After 30 years, she is finally in a new house and doesn't have all that yard to take care of! She is only 5 minutes away and I already enjoy not having to drive as far!

Looking forward to the long holiday weekend! 

First Day of K-2 at Emmanuel

Today was Thomas's first day of K-2 at Emmanuel. Doesn't he look like such a big boy? He also looks so much like Patrick in his picture.

 

 

Emmanuel is not just a great school, it is also special because it is where I went to school when I was Thomas's age. Some of my earliest memories are from Emmanuel...I remember the big giant "cheese" jungle gym that was on the playground. I also remember looking through the window on the playground at the ladies doing aerobics...isn't it funny the things you remember?

 

Thomas helped me color his first day of school sign. He was very proud of his artwork.

 

Waiting to go meet his new teachers, Ms. Heidi and Ms. Laura. He loved showing me all of the different colors and letters on the balloons.

 

Thomas played with the play dough for about 20 minutes. Ms. Heidi let him cut it with scissors all by himself. He was sold and didn't want to leave. He is going to LOVE Emmanuel!

 

Thomas's new school bag. We are looking forward to a great school year!

 

 

Buddies

Thomas and Charlie Joy are great friends. They are just a few weeks apart and love to play together. They will be in the same class this year at Emmanuel, and I am so glad that they will get to play together so often. As you can see from the picture below, they have lots of fun!

 

 

We went to the Red Birds game on Saturday night...or at least to a little bit of the game before the major rain storm blew in. These two little boys had the best time watching the game and "talking" about all of the things they saw. I wish I had a video of their conversation.

 

Thursday was Thomas's last day at his old school before Emmanuel starts. Here is a sweet picture with his two teachers, LeClare and Hollie. He LOVES these two sweet ladies and so do I. They have taken such good care of my sweet little boy and have taught him so many things. We will miss them so much!! Thomas was upset to leave them too.

We played a little dress up this weekend. My little cowboy in his Daddy's cowboy outfit from when he was little. You can see where it has Patrick's name monogrammed above the pocket.

 

 

A good weekend overall...promotion Sunday at Church. Thomas is in Helene and Watson's Sunday school class. I am so grateful to have them help teach Thomas all about Jesus. He came home today singing "Jesus Loves Me."

 

Big week ahead....LuLu moves to a new house and Thomas has his first day at Emmanuel!

A New Look and the Little Moments

Our guest bathroom has been annoying me since we bought our house almost three years ago. It was a little outdated with the yellow tile (see the few "before" pictures below after I had already started taping) but the worst part was that it could only be used as a tub and not a shower because the tile is only three feet high around the tub. 

 

 

 

Our poor guests have had to shower in Thomas's bathroom. Not all-together awful...just annoying. So one day, I decided I was going to fix it. Didn't want to go through a major renovation, so I turned to Pinterest for the first step....Painting tiles. Did you know you could do that? I sure didn't, but I am a believer now.....

 

A beautiful black and white tile bathroom now. The plumber and tile man are coming soon to extend our tub surround so that we can have a shower in this bathroom....I'm thinking some Carrara marble and border above the existing tile will look awesome. May not be fully functioning quite yet but it sure is pretty! :)

 

On to the little moments recently that have been precious. Thomas loves to play with his Daddy and really loves to do things like his Daddy does. Golf is one of their favorites. Patrick has been teaching Thomas how to hold the club and to keep his eye on the ball...he is actually a really good shot. One afternoon, Daddy shared his "real" golf clubs with Thomas.

 

Looks like a little golf-pro to me!

 

Traded in the big clubs for ones more our size...Please notice the concentration on technique here...

 

And then just a sweet face!

 

Lollie stayed with us for a few days and Thomas was in heaven. Every morning, he needed to "check" Lollie's water to make sure it was okay by putting one finger in there. Poor Lollie, all she wants to do is eat her breakfast!