Happy Birthday to Me!

Gosh! I'm 29!!! Hehehe. I got some fun presents from my friends. I had a little party at Karen's (thanks so much, you are the best!) with some friends. We made cards and ate cottage cakes (which are super yummy pancakes with cottage cheese in them - Karen has the recipe on her food blog) with Nutella and many other yummy things on them. So fattening! :D Then later that night Bryce and Eva made me my favorite...

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie!!

Bryce made the little heart in the crust - he loves me!!!

We also had fried Ice Cream and yummy dinner. I am so spoiled!

On Sunday we played games and missed Gordon's family (they were a little busy with a new baby - and me with a cough - lame).

Anyway - the day was great - I love celebrating myself! :) Really, I love a party and people don't throw enough of them - so I have to come up with reasons to celebrate. Yeah, I'm 29!

All About Eva

Eva and I got to do our first school "art" project. It was supposed to be a circle map "all about me" of things Eva loves. I didn't have big enough paper to do a circle...so this is what we did.
Doesn't she look happy? :D I love this girl.

She picked the things she loves and took pictures of them (and I printed a few extra pictures of her doing things she loves). It was so fun to watch her pick something and take the picture. Here are a couple up-close pictures of the project.

I had lots of fun! Thanks, Eva, for letting me do this with you!

(And thanks, Karen, for the paper ;)

Really? Already? (Sigh)

My baby started Kindergarten on Monday - Eva, not Bryce ;)

Doesnt' she look grown up in her uniform? She was up and ready to go to school by like 7:05am (Eva is NOT my morning girl) and said she couldn't wait around for the bus to come at 7:35 - they would have to walk :) So we all walked to school on Monday.

Isobel started school last Wednesday - isn't she cute?The pigtails were just a coincidence - but the backpacks I got last fall on clearance at Target for like $3.75 - wahoo! They were happy to have matching packs.


I don't know about you guys, but have you noticed how ornery kids are after the first few days of school? Eva went from hanging out with Daddy ALL Day to Class ALL day - she is pretty grumpy. She came into my office and put on my graduation cap and made this face when I wanted to take a picture:
Notice how she had to get those tights and shoes off as soon as she got home?

So we walked the girls to school and as we got in the kindergarten hallway - I told Eva where we were and she said, "Bye, Mom!" and let go of my hand. :) I told her I was walking her to class. (We took this picture in the morning and she was waving to Bryce who was making faces at her thru the window.)
Oh, that little face! She can't be so grown up yet.

I have to admit, as Bryce and I left Eva and school and started walking back home, I did get a few tears in my eyes (and held back the rest). I wasn't sad for Isobel to start school - she was just SO ready and I was excited for her. I am excited for Eva, but I'm not ready for her to be that old yet. I guess I am a "normal" mom ;) People have told me how they cried when their kids went to school or whatever and I just couldn't imagine it. Now I get it. It's hard to let your baby go. I won't get a chance to do this again - or have her home again - or be more in charge of the kinds of things she is exposed to. I'm trusting her to the school for most of the day. I am not ready for her to be so grown up. I thought I was a year ago when we were talking about it - but now I want to hold on to her longer.

I love my little girls.