First Day of Kindergarten!!!

Gem got to go to kindergarten today, I don't know if I have ever been happier :)

Gem was a little nervous, probably because last night for family home evening we told her a bunch of rules she has to obey.  Including being quiet and not touching people, we have issues with those rules at home.

I asked her what they did at school today and she said they just talked about rules, she didn't seem to thrilled to have spent an entire day talking about rules.  But I know once they start doing stuff that she will love it.

 

I asked her what her favorite part of the day was, and she said she liked riding the bus the best.  I must agree, it is so nice to not have to drive her anywhere, or pack anyone up to get in the car.  Thank heavens for the bus!

Our Bipolar Son

Life can be good when you're a 2 year old boy.  Levi certainly has his ups and downs.  Here are two videos that show Levi at opposite ends of his "sugar-level spectrum".

Walking!

I am a little behind in the video department.  June can pretty much walk anywhere she wants to now (albeit slowly).  But here is a clip of when she was first figuring it out.

Baby's Room

 We finally did something to liven up the baby room.  Right now June is the only one in here, but we left up the other crib for baby Luke, because we are too lazy to take it down and then set it up again in four months.

 We painted ten colors on the wall.  It is pretty bright but we like it :)

 Also I painted the old dresser that was looking a little down and out.  I went with blue on blue and I think it turned out pretty nice.

Random Stuff

 Gem lost her other front tooth.  It looks like she will be starting kindergarten with no top front teeth.  It gives her a little of a lisp :)  She gets to start kindergarten in two weeks, I am so excited to send her on the bus everyday to go talk to other people besides me.

 Last Friday we drove up to the top of the mountain by our house.  It was pretty fun, and nice to see what was at the top of something that has been in my backyard basically my whole life. 

Every 3 days we have been harvesting the garden and gotten about this much produce.  So as the family near us has noticed, we have to diligently try to give away food twice a week.  Luckily I think our corn is almost through, however I am still picking a dozen cucumbers twice a week.  I just have no idea what to do with so many cucumbers, and Saturday we picked a large bowl full of cherry tomatoes and that was just half of the bush.  Who needs so many cherry tomatoes?  It has been fun, but also a little difficult as I try to keep the food from going bad.

In other news my sister had her first baby yesterday.  Baby Ella was a whopping 8 lbs and 14 ounces, which made the labor and delivery a little more difficult than anyone would have liked.  It makes me just realize how lucky Tyler and I have been that we have never had any complications with our kids, and that everyone has always been so healthy.  We have been really really blessed.  Luckily baby Ella is amazingly adorable and healthy, so that might help Kayli's recovery a little bit.  So a big congratulations to Kayli and Liam!

A House Project and a Baby Name

 I have been thinking about what to do with the giant empty wall we had in the basement.  I finally decided to decorate using the kids names.  I taped rectangles, and then painted in the names.  I think it turned out pretty nice.

 As you can see we have picked a name for the little boy coming in December.  We are just over halfway, and everything looked good at the twenty week ultrasound.