Harrison's Latest School Picture

I say latest because they feel the need to take their pictures three times a year, one in uniform, one black and white, and one casual.  But this is latest. Just for comparison this one is from kindergarten (I can't find his Pre-K one right now) I have a hard time believing that was only a couple years ago.

Random Silly Pictures

Ugh I am having the hardest time with the new photo uploader.  I can't seem to get text where I want it, and it shows up as a link (which it isn't)...ugh... can I go back to the other editor? Ok enough whining....  But here are a couple new ones.  The aren't related but they are all random fun things we have done in the last week.

Avery and her peanut butter.  She was so proud that she cut her own bread and made her own sandwich... and I thought she was awfully cute doing it.

 

This is Avery painting the window.  It seemed like a good idea at the time (yes it was made for windows) but it wasn't so fun when I spent an hour scraping it off.

  Here are the kids making birthday cakes for Dr. Seuss

This is our fun super hero face paint... no reason, just because (Avery did mine)

Block Kids

Yesterday Harrison participated in a construction sponsored Lego contest. It was for kids kindergarten through 5th grade (yes Avery was irritated) and they got 100 Legos, 1 piece of string, 1 piece of tinfoil, and a rock then had one hour to build something related to the construction industry. He had a lot of fun, and I think he is already looking forward to next year. Along with the actual competition they had a lot of fun things for the kids to do. Face painting, snow cones, multiple construction vehicles that they could climb in and push buttons. And it was a gorgeous day! We have had such weird weather lately, it was nice to see the sun!

Pre - face paint

Snow cone number one (another one soon followed)

Big trucks
Crane driver
Starting work

Finished cranePost face paint

Bonnaroo

Bonnaroo

Ear piercing

So I really don't know where to start to get caught up so I am starting with today and will probably be adding non-chronological posts randomly until we are back to current.

So today Avery got her ears pierced. She asked to have them done a few months ago and we made a deal. I told her that it would hurt a bit (I probably made it sound worse than it would be)but whenever she thought it was worth it we would go. A few months passed, it would come up sometimes but she always said no she wasn't ready. Until last Wednesday. She stayed for all day school with her friends, all of which are already 5 and already have their ears pierced. That was enough. She came home and said "mom I want my ears pierced" and I said "remember it will hurt a bit" and she said "let's go before school tomorrow" and she didn't budge from that point on. I did make her wait until the weekend but this morning we went and put some holes in her ears. She is the proud owner of some fancy rainbow crystal daisies (they only had balls and stars when I got mine done) and she didn't cry or even flinch when they did it. {{big sigh}} She is growing up so fast these days....

I know I know....I'm behind.

I seem to have lost all concept of time lately. I missed posting a ton of things and now I am trying to figure out how to catch it all up. We went to Michigan in December and when we got back were insane trying to get everything done for school and Christmas. Then came Christmas and what ended up being wave one of sickness. The kids spent their entire Christmas break sick. Thank goodness Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Dan braved the virus house and came to visit. Then back to school craziness and wave two of sickness. Both Harrison and Will have been home for an entire week! I am very ready for normal to return... I will probably just post a bunch of random pictures to catch up and go from there.

Harrison wins the Fire Safety Poster Contest - again

Oh it is going to be a bad day when he doesn't win this poster contest. He came in 3rd place in Kindergarten, 1st in First grade and now 1st in Second grade. Unbelievable. This year instead of a dinner they had an assembly at school and lunch with the firefighters after. I don't have a picture of his poster yet but will add that later. It is the yellow one behind them.

Thanksgiving and more Thanksgiving....

These are from Avery's Thanksgiving program at school. She has watched so many of Harrison's that this was huge for her. And we lucked out because Harrison's school had the day off that day so he could come watch her. Now I should also say that leading up to this show was all kinds of drama. Avery did not under any circumstances want to be a Native American. Why? Honestly I have no idea but she was dead set against, she was not wearing a costume and she was not having a new name. Dan was here for part of it so he can attest to the fact that she was adamant about the whole thing. But slowly slowly slowly she decided this was a good idea and by the time it rolled around we had a very happily costumed little girl named Little Dancing Horse.

A gaggle of 4 yr olds

Big goofy grin, and she kept yelling "hi Harrison" randomly throughout....
And these are from Scott and Kelly's on Thanksgiving

Avery playing with Mackenzie
(Mackenzie, Denny, and Gracie are all so great about playing with my kids... they talk about it for weeks)

Avery loving the horses
Harrison would rather watch from here

And then the day after Thanksgiving we went down to Grandma Neenie's for another meal and family time.

Photo Shoot #1

First of all let me say I really love these pictures. I can't really put them on a Christmas card, well maybe I will you never know, but the truth is they really encompass so much of the way I see my kids. And I mean that in a good way. So maybe I will get them to sit and smile at the same time, maybe I won't... but this was our first attempt.