Playing Catch Up

Oh this poor neglected blog of mine...so far down on the to-do list but not completely forgotten. Yes school started about 6 weeks ago and I'm just now getting pictures up, but it's my blog not yours, if anyone is still reading.

 Here they are on the morning of the first day...Marin headed to 3rd grade and Greyson to 1st grade, in their new clothes long pants and sleeves even though it was 80 when they came home...but really can you blame them for not being able to resist new clothes?

 Here she is my sweet little Addy all ready to go on her first day of preschool. She was and is so excited to get to go to school like the big kids!

 Right after school started we celebrated a milestone....Addy turned 5! She was so excited to have her birthday and have a candle in her pancake that morning. Birthdays are so fun when the kids are old enough to know what's going on and look forward to it!

The weekend of her birthday we had my sister Chelsea and her family over from Vancouver. We also made 60 pints of salsa the day of her birthday.

Addy at 5: 

right at the 50th percentile for her height and weight, she looks like a peanut though

looks up to her older sister and wants to be like her

loves to write and draw and will entertain herself for a long time this way

loves to play Littlest Pet Shop

we call her the chicken whisperer, she loves to take care of our chickens and can round them up and catch them faster than anyone else. She will pick them up and carry them around and loves them like pets.

Is our narrator, nothing happens that she doesn't tell me about, replay word for word

Loves to be read to and snuggle

Right now most of her friends are little boys, there aren't very many little girls her age but she just goes with the flow and play rough and tumble with them

She is my ragamuffin, no matter what we do in the morning she is disheveled and messy by the end of the day

She lives life to the fullest

We love you Addy!