Peanuts

Logan still enjoys drawing, and lately he's been really into the Peanuts comic strip. He drew all the characters and I think he did an amazing job!

Grocery Store

The best things about grocery shopping for him are the cookie at the bakery and the horsie ride on the way out. He's learning to be a good errand buddy...at least he's cute.

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

We celebrated what would have been Grandpa Eldredge's birthday on August 11th by telling stories about him, sharing what the kids remember about him, and of course going out for ice cream! Gone from us for a time, but never forgotten.

Eli's Swim Lessons

Eli worked hard in swim lessons this summer and made a lot of progress (and looked cute doing it!)

Chicago

I don't go to Chicago very often, but I do love to go. So one of the last days of summer the kids and I drove down. 

We saw the bean:

Walked around Millennium Park (and found an entrance into a wall of evergreens):

Saw Daddy's building (the white one, the Aon Center, is the third tallest downtown):

Enjoyed Maggie Dailey Park (a huge playground with many different areas):

Tried not to loose Jake who doesn't feel any need to stick by his mommy and thinks he can do anything the big kids can (thank goodness for big siblings who help)

And saw this great guy:

It's a lot of work to go downtown, but I'm glad we did!

Choo Choo Trains

Nursery has taught Jake the joy of trains. Luckily for him, we have a huge collection thanks to older brothers and cousins. Trains are one of the few things that will distract him when he wants to watch tv and I say no (he's addicted to tv). He loves to hand me the pieces and say, "Broke it," which is his way of asking me to build him a track. I really enjoy making intricate tracks so it is something fun for us to do together, at least until he remembers that it is just as much fun to break the tracks as to play with them.

First Days!

Happy first day of school! Alison and Logan are going into fourth grade and Eli into first. Because Eli went to a Kindergarten Center last year, this is the first year all three of them are in the same school, which I am looking forward to! Alison is pleased to have her teacher from last year again, and Logan has the teacher Ali had in first grade (they did a big teacher switch up as far as who taught what grade for this year). Eli's teacher is new to us, but she seems nice!

Here they all are on their first day!

Eli's friend Noah is going to hang out with us every morning before school for an hour and ride the bus with them. He's a nice kid and so far it's been very easy having him here.

Logan saw a picture of the converse style shoe and wanted them for his own! When he was trying these on he said, "Oh mom, you don't know how much this means to me!"

Ali wanted her hair curled for the first day. So pretty!

The rest of us didn't have first days of school today, but we did have:
Jake on his 862nd day of life:

Daddy on his 3,220ith day of work (approximately!!)

And me on my 3,434th day of Motherhood!

We all had great days!