Old time Olive and faces

Olive always looks like she could come out of another era. SO one day she had on this shirt and I got inspired. Sat her down took a few shots and I just love how they look.

Oh the joys of parenting.

Oh man, again the joys of parenting....all the crying and whining. eekkss

But then it is all worth it...one smile makes you forget.

The traditional book reading before bed. Ethan has to read a book a night for school. So it keeps us regular.

August 08

Olive LOVEs birthday cake. More please was this caption. Olive's birthday was on the first day of school. To bad, but I guess she did not care as long as she got a cake with candles. Olive is 3 years old.

Here is Olive sitting in the pick up area of her pre-school. It is so funny you drop them off and they sit in their little circle with their class and then when the entire class is there they go to class. Does not seem like it would work, but it does. They all sit and talk to each other before they go to class. Dee the Dog still lives at school which all the kids love. It seems to be going well-but Olive brings her blankie just in case.

It is Ethan's first day of school. He wears a uniform with really helps on deciding what to wear. He is learning a lot of Spanish already and is having a great time. He has a really good teacher and the entire school is just so different, they call the kids "love", and hug them. It is full of energy and comfort, yet very orderly...so for Ethan it is working well. He is a little a head of his class as far as reading, so his teacher has him read books and help teach the class during English reading time.

Here at the Matthews Fair Olive is catching a shark, which won her this gross Ernie doll thing that is still stuck on the window of the Jeep. Pretty gross.

Ethan ordered three darts and popped three balloons and won a stuffed snake. Yippeee...but it was fun to see him play, he has no fear. The other day he was playing football with Jeremy and he threw the ball really hard and Jeremy said, great throw Ethan. Ethan matter of factly replied "I know I have a gun for an arm"....totally Napoleon Dynamite sounding....still makes me laugh.

Oh dear, this ride.....the poor ride attendant would walk around making sure all the kids were buckled in, and by the time he would make it around half the kids would unbuckle. So he went around and around and around, then kids were getting impatient so some started crying and wanting to get off. So he let them off and then went around and around again, buckling buckles. Then the ride started, and some kid stood up, so he had to stop the ride and go around again...I was about to crawl over and pull the kids off....Olive just kept yelling, "when is this thing going to start"....Ethan was also concerned that he still had not collected his tickets yet.....So he was yelling "tickets, here's my tickets".....all I could do is shake my head.

The swings, Olive just kept waving and yelling ETHAN, ETHAN,

Ethan is such a good brother, on this ride Olive could not climb in, so Ethan climbed back out and stood by her holding her hand until the attendant helped her in. His instructions that day was to NEVER leave her side. So he didn't.

Olive go to ride on Moon Pie.....I was a bit jealous...but I think I would have smashed moon pie.

Here are some pictures from earlier when we went peach picking. Ethan and Olive were both in search of the best peach tree.

Only Ethan would point out the "funny" peach.

Miss Independent, is ALWAYS trying to do everything on her own. She was in charge of the box.