Brock & Kyle's 1st day of preschool!!

Wednesday was the boys' first day of preschool (it actually started Monday, but we were still on vacation:).  To say they were excited would be an understatement!  They woke up in the morning and wanted to get dressed immediately (preschool doesn't start until 12:30 pm for us:).  They also knew exactly what they wanted to wear - all CARDINALS!!  Here they are - ready to go:

 And one with Ali:).

 

At BACC Preschool - looking forward to a great year!!

Bed head:)

This girl rocks out the bed head like no one else I know:)!!  Love it!

Ali's room

For Ali's 10 month birthday, we gave her a gift - we finally finished decorating the walls in her room.  Sad, I know, but I had a hard time figuring out what to do.  We finally came up with a plan that I hope she can grow with for a while and here's the finished product - with the cutest tour guide ever:)!!

"Whew!! Glad that's finally finished!!  Want to read some books??"

2012 Labor Day Parade

Last Monday, we made our annual trek to the Labor Day parade here in town.  The kids love it, and they get WAY too much candy!!

 Most of the crew waiting for the parade to start.  We were lucky to get a shade spot, which make the sunny sticky day more bearable:).

The candy catchers:)!

 Ali decided to read a book before the parade:).  She really does love looking at books!

 Cheesy face!

Funny faced boy - again, I couldn't help but include them all!

Brock, getting in on the face action

Silly guy!!

"Okay! Enough pictures!!  Let's get this show on the road!!"

Gotta love Sparky the fire dog!

Go get it, boys!

"Is this thing almost over??  It's been 2 hours!!"

The boys - surveying their loot that evening after dinner.

A buffet of suckers:).  The good thing is that after about 2 or 3 licks, they're done.

We're going to have to pace ourselves (and mommy will probably hide most of it for Halloween:).

Wanna play "tow truck"??

The boys have been having fun out in the nice weather lately.  Last week, "tow-truck" was the game to play:).  Then, as if by plan, they got to see a real tow-truck on an adventure w/ Aunt Ruthie.  I'm not so sure that she would agree, but the timing was pretty good, considering their latest trend:).  

Here they are in action:

 Brock is the tower this time, but it appears that he lost his load:).

 Now it's Kyle's turn to tow - getting set up.

 Off they go!!

It appears that they had to stop for some adjustments.  Towing is hard work you know!!

On a side note - did you notice their socks??  You can't see it, but these winter socks have little "rescue dogs" on them.  They were waiting to play a baseball game with Daddy (Yes, he's super-Daddy - they play a baseball game almost every night - him against the 2 of them:), and they had decided that their team was going to be called the "Rescue Dogs", so they needed these socks on, and they like to have them pulled all the way up - like the baseball players do:).  These guys definitely keep us laughing!!

Getting so big!!

My sweetie is growing up so fast (In know that I've said it many times, but it is true!!)

Here are some recent pics:

She definitely wants to be a big girl when it comes to food.  If we aren't eating it, you'd better believe that she won't be either:).  This definitely makes it hard to get enough fruits and veggies into her.

But, with this sweet face, who could get frustrated??  I know that this stage will soon pass.

She loves to make funny faces at us and definitely uses her brothers as inspiration!

She still looks so funny with those 2 top teeth poking out, but Mommy and Daddy were so glad to finally see them!!  They were rough coming - for all of us!!

"Don't break that cracker up!!  Give it to me whole!!".  Did I mention that she knows what she wants, and scolds us regularly if it isn't her way:)??

"Here I come!"

Sweet!!

"Picture time's over, Mom.  Now let me take a closer look at that camera!!"