Smartie Pants Fair

 

Paige is just loving school. Everyday she asks if she is going that day. She talks about it all the time and is so excited to be there on the days that she does go. This last Thursday they had their Smartie Pants fair. Paige loves to help me cook in the kitchen, so for her "exhibit" we made pink cookies. She got a first place ribbon (along with every other kid!) and she was excited about that. They also gave all of the kids cotton candy and a culligan hat with a feather on it. She had a fun time and was a wound up from all the sweets, but that is what a fair is all about!

Face Painting

 

As we were walking around the fair, there is all sorts of things for people to do...they all just come at a price. One of the things Parker really wanted to do was get into a giant inflatable ball and roll around in a big pool. It did look like a lot of fun, but it was $8 a person, and I am not sure how long you got to be in there for. So instead we talked to the kids into getting their face painted. They had to choose a picture from the $3 pictures and each of them were able to find something they wanted. Parker a dinosaur, and Paige a unicorn. After waitint in line for almost a half hour the kids got their turn. The lady was amazing! She was so fast and before I knew it the paint became a picture. I didn't take her ver long and the kids each loved the result, as you can see. That truly is a talent to be able to do that, and she was working hard, the line didn't seem to ever slow down.

Fair Week

 

We can't live right by the fair and not go there. As soon as the kids could see the ride going up, they were asking when we were going to go. I took the three kids by myself, well with a friend and her family, on Saturday. We mostly walked around and saw the animals and all the stuff along the edges. So Matt and I took the kids back on Tuesday for wristband day. We decided last year that this year we would get our money's worth better if we bought the kids wristbands. It cost us $25 a kid! We have never blown $50 so fast! I then kept track of how many tickets a ride took and how much that would cost so after the kids reached what would have cost us $50 in tickets, I knew we got our money out of it. There were several rides that they did 5 or 6 times, just because they could. I think they liked not having to choose just a few rides to do and that they could go on their favorite ride more than once. Poor little Paige is still not tall enough for some of the rides. Some of which I didn't really understand. She wasn't tall enough to ride the train, but she could ride the dumbo ride that went in the air? It didn't make much sense to me, and she was sad when she had waited in line and then they told her she couldn't ride. But she made up for it on all the other rides that she could do. They each had a blast and after 2 hours, were still not ready to go. Paxten was a good boy and slept a lot of the time, otherwise he was content to be held and to just see what was going on. I could not leave without having a giant pickle. It was good and reminded me of the old days when I was a kid!

We knew this was the last day we would be coming and so Matt and I tried to eat as much as we could. I had trout, fried teryaki rice, and a cinnamon roll. The kids each had a hot dog, and Parker had a pretzel as well. Matt was the winner eating a Hansen Hoagie burger with grilled onions, a double outlaw burger (which if made on a doughnut instead of a bun), a pork burrito, and chocolate dipped cheesecake. WOW!! Believe it or not I still wanted to try a few other things, but I was so stuffed, I really needed to go about 3 more times to get in the scone nuggets, ice cream, bread, Indian Taco, and a few others I wanted to try like the deep fried candy bars, tortatoes, craw fish, and a Gyro. Well maybe next year huh! That is the only reason anyone goes isn't it?

Paige's First Day of Preschool

 

Paige was so excited to start school too! She could hardly stand the first week, when Parker was going and she wasn't. So on Tuesday she asked about 100 times when was it time for her to leave. She had gone into the preschool last week to meet her teachers and to see the school. So she was thrilled for the day when she would get to go and play and make new friends. I do have to say how weird it was to have both the older kids gone for a few hours at the same time. I din't quite know what to do with myself. But I will get used to spending some one on one time with Paxten. Paige had a great time and came home with a few fun new projects she had created. When I dropped her off she told me to go home! She wasn't the least bit nervous or scared to be there by herself. When I picked her up she told me she missed me! Glad to hear that! She has a hard time saying one of her teacher's names Miss Allyson. Instead she says Miss Assylynn, it is quite cute to hear her say it. She will have to work on that throughout the year. She is excited about making new friends and doing art projects. I know she will love school, she is my social butterfly and she will flurish in the school environment!

My kids are growing up so fast, but I love each stage that they go through.

Fish Pictures

My Sister-in-law posted these pictures of Parker and I had to put them on here. He was so proud of himself for his great catch. I hope he keeps up his fishing, he needs an activity to calm him down. Thanks for feeding our whole family with your fish Parker!

Date With Grandma #2

After waiting for 3 weeks Paige finally got her turn to go on a date with grandma. During that 3 weeks time period she was constantly reminding grandma that they needed to go, she was not going to miss out on her turn. They went on their date on the 31st, the week before Paige was going to start preschool. Mom said that Paige was on a Pink kick and would not even look at anything that wasn't pink. She said there were some really cute outfits that were purple and some that were blue/brown, but Paige wanted only clothes that were pink. She ended up with a cute black zebra/pink dress, a pink shirt, pink shoes, black and white tights, and a pink and black plaid skort. She did end up with an adorable denim jacket to go with jeans. My silly girl!! They also went to McDonald's for lunch before shopping, but came home after only one store. Paige wasn't feeling well and had a tummy ache, so their date was cut a little short. But they still had a fun time with one another. I am so glad my kids have a close relationship with their grandparents (all of them!) and that they are all around this area so my kids get to grow up knowing, and spending time with them!

Date With Grandma

My mom decided that it would be fun to start the tradition of taking the kids individually on a "date" right before school starts to let them pick a new outfit and to spend some time with her. Parker went on his date with grandma back on the 10th of August, but I just got a picture of them the other day and it sometime takes me a little while to sit down and blog about it. On their date they went to lunch at Mcdonalds (Parker's choice) then they went shopping for a little while and Parker picked out a few new shirts, some pants, and a jacket. He wasn't interested in trying things on and somehow my mom ended up with a bigger size and had to go back to exchange some of the clothes. Lesson learned: always try on clothes! After they shopped Parker wanted to play at the play area in the mall. Then they went to the movie Smurfs and had dinner at Arctic Circle on the way home. I wasn't expecting them to be gone the entire day, but Parker had so much fun with grandma all on his own. He is still talking about his date! Paige was sad that she didn't get to go, but was promised a date of her own later!