first and last

Well, my first baby did it. Kayla finished her first year of school. I'm so proud.

She's come so far, learned so much.

She can write in sentences. She can count by 5's and 10's.

She can add and subtract. She can read! That last one amazes me the most.

She lost her two bottom baby teeth. Those holes were cute,

and now they are filled with 2 big adult teeth. 

She got glasses.

And she went from wearing a size 5 slim to a size 7 slim!

Every time I bought her new jeans I would have to buy her more.

Now onto the fun part...

the pictures from the first day of school....to the last.

 a little blurry but oh well.

I can't believe that's it. That it's over.

I now have a first grader.

so very proud

The past 4 years Anthony has been going to school Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6pm to 9pm to get his journeyman's card. And he is finally done!! I'm not sure who is more excited...me or him. I think it's me. Monday night was his graduation. It was at a hotel in Richmond, The Omni. So we kinda had a date. We didn't have the girls but we were surrounded by other people at our table. But I'll take what I can get. Especially since we haven't been on a date since Kinsley was born and this is our third date in.....five years. I'm so proud of that man of mine.

There's another person in our family that I'm oh so proud of. This girl right here.

Her last day of kindergarten is tomorrow! What??? I can't believe in a little over 24 hours I will have a first grader.

I'm ready for her to be home for the summer, because even though she will drive me crazy I feel extremely guilty doing all these summer things with Kyleigh and Kinsley while she's at school.

ps. don't give your 19 month old (ahhh, how the heck is she 19 months already!?!?) a green popsicle  she'll turn into a little leprechaun. 

mcdonalds for breakfast, a brownie for snack.

This morning when my alarm went off at 7:15 am I hit dismiss instead of snooze. I've been doing that a lot the past 2 weeks. I rolled over and went back to sleep. When I woke up I felt like I had been asleep forever. It was only 7:37. I laid in bed, checked facebook and instagram. I waited until 8:10 before I even moved. That's when Kayla finally woke up. It was 8:25 when she asked what was for breakfast...and that's when I realized the only thing we have for breakfast that she will eat is pancakes and not the frozen kind either. And I don't have enough time to make them. So I tell her to hurry and get shoes and socks I'm getting her McDonald's. I throw a brownie in her book bag for snack. Yeah, you read that right...a brownie. And I realize we didn't do last night's homework because I haven't been checking her folder. I grab her clipboard and a pencil and we run out the door...in the pouring rain.

For the record this whole school year she hasn't missed a day. (Well, one when she got a tooth pulled but that was it!) We haven't missed the bus...not even once. And today, even though I dropped her off at school, we could've made the bus but she wouldn't have had time to eat. I thought eating was more important than catching the bus.

I'm so ready for next Friday when school will be out. Ready for the late nights, the sleeping-in, the not having to wake Kyleigh and Kinsley up Monday through Friday. (Can you believe even after 9 months of school I still have to wake them up every. single. day??) I'm done with checking folders and making healthy snacks. I'm ready for the pool and changing outfits 3 times a day. Not being on a schedule....and then 2 weeks after all of that I'll be ready for school to start again. The cycle never ends...

Now onto some photos from our life lately.

Almost 19 months.

Kinsley turns 19 months on the 10th but I'm just now writing her 18 month post. But that's ok. Technically I have 4 more days to finish it.

Oh, Kinsley. Daughter # 3. The baby in the family. Birth order really does define who you are. And there is no way I could ever add a 4th baby into this mix...not that I want to, but Kinsley definitely has the personality of "the baby in the family."

She's a climber. A get into everything baby. Leave the bathroom door open? Oh, you can guarantee she is in there with the toothbrush in her mouth and a hand in the toilet. 

A lover of sleep but not in the way of Kyleigh. She won't fall asleep anywhere, only in her carseat and crib. But don't wake her. She's grumpy. If you must wake her try to make a lot of noise. Don't rub her back to do it. 

She's funny. She's a mean mugger. But sometimes she tries to mean mug you and her eyes give her smile underneath away. She's determined. She loves being on the go. (Wonder where she gets that from?? **cough Kayla cough**) And she always, always, gets what she wants.

She's a runner. A waddler. (And apparently that's a word because google didn't put a red line underneath it.) She still has a baby face. And she still is bowlegged. She's my chunky monkey. Only 31 inches tall (25%) and 26.14 pounds (75%.) But 110% cute!