Gracie's First Day of Pre-K

Today was Gracie's first day in Pre-K at Tri-County Christian School. It's the same school she attended last year for Pre-School. This years goals include learning how to count to 100, write your last name along with your first name that they learned last year, reading 3 letter words, and what sounds vowels make. There are many more goals, but I can't remember them all. As you can see she was pretty excited about going.
Gracie is decked out in a dress because on Wednesday's all the girls wear dresses and the boys wear collared shirts and they go to chapel. Most Wednesday's Gracie is thrilled to get dressed for school.
Gracie chose to use the same lunch box as last year because she still loves the princesses. It was fine with me to not buy a new one!

Doesn't Gracie look so small compared to the big Tri-County Christian School sign? I didn't realize how little she looked until I put this picture on the computer.

This is Gracie with her new teacher, Mrs. Dawn. She loved Mrs. Joyce last year but will probably love Mrs. Dawn just as much. Mrs. Dawn will be having a baby any day now, so she will be gone for 6 weeks, but Gracie is very familiar with the substitute and likes her as well.

Messy Face

It's hard to believe that any prunes entered Ella's stomach after seeing this picture, but I had the diaper to prove it! She's such a good eater. I just hope it lasts.
Ella was quite pleased with her messy face. In fact, she enjoyed posing more than ever!

Ella In The Grass

My parents watched Gracie and Ella for us while we went to a funeral visitation today, and of course Nana brought her camera. She got some pretty cute pictures of Ella sitting in the grass.

Ever since Gracie learned to pray, she has been the pray-er at every meal. She rarely will let someone else have a turn. It looks like she might have some competition in the upcoming years.

Ella's Back At It

Gracie loves to play on the computer, but Ella is definitely starting earlier than Gracie did. If Ella just hears the keys clicking while I type she starts crying because she wants to make them click too! Now that she can sit up, I let her pose for a few pictures doing her thing.

About 10 minutes after I took this picture Brent had to call his friend who works for Apple and is a computer whiz because Ella somehow rotated the screen so that everything was upside down. Oops! Maybe I shouldn't be letting her "play" with the keyboard. Brent actually ended up fixing it before his friend called him back. (In case you are curious, a combination of 3 keys being held down will rotate your screen.)

Who do you love the most?

I have been finding myself having the same discussion with Gracie lately. Ever since we have had Ella, she wants to know who I love the most. My answer never varies. I always tell her I love them both the same. Today the question was a little different. We were saying our morning goodbyes to Brent and I said, "I love you." He said the same back to me. As we drove off, Gracie sad, "I thought I was your love." I said, "Well, you are my love, but I also love Daddy and Ella." She quickly asked, "Well, who do you love the most?" I tried to answer the question the same way, but I said, "Well, I love daddy as my husband and I love you and Ella as my girls. She's my best Ella-love and you are my best Gracie-love." Gracie thought a moment and asked, "Do you know who I love the most?" I asked her who and she said, "Ella. Because she has a cute face." There you have it. Out of the mouth of a four-year old. She chose to love her sister the most because of her cute face! I don't blame her I guess. :-)

Anniversary

Happy 9th Anniversary, Brent!

Tri-County Craft

If you were to ask Gracie if she likes school, she would answer that she doesn't. However, once she is there, she always has a good time. This summer she has continued to go to Tri-County on the days I work since Brent didn't really have any time off to speak of. I think she really enjoyed this summer at school because they did a lot of cool activities and swam almost everyday. This shirt was one of their crafts and she wore it today. She painted it with sponges and got to choose her own design and colors. We thought it was cute. After one serious picture Gracie thought she should take some silly face pictures.Every silly face she makes is a variation of the same silly face, but she hasn't realized that yet.
Yet another one of the same precious silly faces.