Kindergarten update

Our big Kindergartener is doing so great at school.  (At home, is another story for another time...)
 She takes her school work so seriously, is an excellent listener, a good helper and a great student.  She has started writing her name on papers as "Mackinna Marie Campbell" and prides herself in how small she can write now.  "As tiny as Daddy's high school kids," she says.  She loves music on Thursdays and Library on Fridays.  She has started getting homework- which she loves. It just one thing a week to work on together, but its not enough for her so sure obsessively practices her writing at home daily too.
She finally convinced me to let her buy school lunch.  They offer two options each day, with the secondarily option often being "Bagel lunch".  She kept asking and asking, and then one day her teacher sent home an additional school lunch calendar with all the bagel lunches circled and a note that read, "Mackinna's bagel lunch."  I reluctantly agreed and it went pretty well, so again on Monday I let her do bagel lunch.  She came home that night and said to me, "Mommy I don't think you would like me eating the yogurt we got with bagel lunch today."  I ask why and she replies, "It had two bright colors- green and pink."  It warmed my heart.  I was so proud.  Sure she ate it, but at least she came home and confessed!  She is so cute!  This then lead to the conversation about how good home lunches are.  She didn't whole heartily agree, but didn't complain either.

October pictures

Baby hog with Grace

Another observation week

Some school friends

Room R eating lunch

Class picture on the field trip

Kaden on the cow train

Ready to enter the corn maze

Crossing the bridge in the maze

She's pretty tall

It took Kaden a long time to find the perfect pumpkin

At the playground with Jada

Flower Girl & Ring Bearer!

On September 25th we celebrated the marriage of Ryan and Jen. It was a beautiful wedding for a beautiful couple and the kids were the best little ring bearer and flower girl ever. They were so gorgeous and were just amazing in the wedding. They were exhausted but had a great time. Here are a few pictures....

 

At the rehearsal dinner with the bride & groom

Being a ring bearer is hard work

Getting her hair done

He's ready to go

The flower girl & Grandma

Two handsome boys

So happy to be with her Uncie

With Mike's kids Ashely & Andrew

Friends

Not sure what was going on here

The four of us

Apple picking

So its taken me more than a month to post these photos... better late than never right?

Puke bucket

Jordie was heaving like he was going to throw up so Kaden got him this
bucket! Mackinna not so kindly reminded her brother, "jordie is a dog
and he'll just throw up on the floor."

A little off the top

Kaden is visiting Mackinna's salon this morning.

I'm a grown up

Kaden decided he wanted to play a game with me this morning, so he pulled out Cranium.  I explained to him it was a grown up game and suggested some others, but he wasn't having it.  He said to me, "But I'm a grown up!'  I said, "Oh yeah, do you have a job?"  Of course he replies, "Yes."  So I had to ask, "What is your job?"  Without a moments hesitation, he replies, "Carrying the rings down the aisle."  He's right, we kept telling him that was his very important job at Unkie's wedding!

Breakfast

Yesterday Mackinna was having a difficult morning getting ready for school and required a lot of attention.  While I was attending to her, it seems her brother got hungry, so he went down stairs to make breakfast.  When Mackinna had settled down and we finally made our way downstairs we found the eggs out, with two pans on the stove, egg shell on the floor and eggs along with some shell in one of the two pans.  I asked him why he had two and he told me the first one was too small.  I'm fairly certain if he had figured out how to turn the burner on, we would have found him at the island, fork in hand, eating a plateful of scrambled eggs.