Birthdays!!!!

The end of August is full of birthdays for our family! Al turned the big 3-4 on August 28th and Cooper and Nana celebrated a birthday on August 30th. Happy Birthday!!!!!

Here's some pictures from Cooper's party yesterday. We had it at the Playzone in town and the kids had a ball. I still can't believe my little guy is now a THREE year old!!!!

Cooper is all into Spider man now so I ordered him a Spidey cake. I normally make the kids cakes but the Spiderman cake pan looked too hard for my liking. So, opted out this year. =) Plus, this one came with a free toy!

The birthday boy! =) Apparently the cake was reaalllllyyy good!

We got him a 12" bike for his big day. He loves to ride Olivia's even though it's too big so we got one his size. He's had a ball on it!

Olivia trying out Coop's gift.

Just some stuff.....

The kids have been in school for about two weeks now and they both LOVE it. I keep getting cute ideas of how to do Olivia's hair so this morning I *bribed* her into letting me braid her pig-tails. I think they turned out quite cute! I'm so bad at doing hair (look at my own!!!) and just not GOOD at that stuff so I'm trying really hard to get better so that Olivia can live up to her "girlie girl" fullness! =)

Here's Heidi....I mean Olivia! =)

Ok, I added this because this was Cooper's breakfast on Saturday. He wanted grits - check. I thought he was done eating those when he asked for a pop tart. Ok, pop tart - check. As I walked by his bowl, this is what I found....and he was EATING it. Yuck! Even when I was pregnant with him and getting weird cravings, I *never* wanted grits with pop tarts! He's a strange kid!!!!

Check it out!

Please check out the "Cake Wrecks" blog on the right. It is so frigging hilarious and I'm sssooo glad I found it! =)

Last night....

was not one of my best Mommy Moments! Since the kids are in school now, I'm making more of an effort to read them a couple of books every night before bed. Cooper and Olivia ADORE this....so how can I go wrong?

Well, for starters, I guess I should be more careful with the books I choose to read to them! I picked out "There are Monsters Everywhere" because Olivia loves that book, so I just knew Cooper would too. I was wrong. Very, very wrong. He sat there looking at the book the whole time with this confused, almost terrified look on his face. My gut said "Ok, maybe you should stop and get another book" - but since when do *I* listen to my gut? I kept reading and put the kids to bed afterwards. I seriously thought he was fine until he woke up twice last night and ended up in my bed. I think his little body was attached to mine all night long. Now, I'm not 100% it was the story that scared him, but I have a feeling it probably didn't help any!

*sigh* I will just blame it on Al.....way to go Al!!!! =) Anyways, sorry it's been almost a week since my last post. It's been busy and it's been hard work getting the kids used to their routine again. I signed Olivia up for tap lessons again this year yesterday so I'm excited for those to start up. I think I will get out the Pooh Bear books tonight! =)

First Day for BOTH kids!

Today is Olivia *AND* Cooper's first day of school!!!! Olivia is in 5K and Cooper is in 3K. They were sssooo excited about going to school this morning - it made it so much easier to drop them off. Cooper was a little scared when Ms. Jenny and Mrs. Susan got him out the car, but he went right in after Olivia (who I had to FORCE to give me a goodbye kiss this morning!). I can't wait to pick them up this afternoon and see how their first day was! Oh, and I managed NOT to cry but I really, really, really wanted too. I thought Al would pick on me so I sucked it up. =)

On the way - Cooper LOVES his Spiderman lunchbox and kept saying "I can't wait to eat out my lunchbox!" - it was so cute!

Olivia LOVES her Disney Princess book bag with matching lunch box.....she thinks she's styling....


Ha ha - Cooper was saying "cheese" and closed his eyes - stinker! He's so grown....I can't believe he's almost 3 and in pre-school. I told you he loves that lunch box!

My babies! =)

My little Mini-Me....she's so pretty and prissy.....

Al's Mini-Me! Ha ha - everyone tells us that we got one each!

So, the suspense is killing me and I can't wait until 2:30 to pick them up! I have no worries really about Olivia, but I am still a little nervous about Coop. I think that since his classroom and they stuff they will be doing will resemble his daycare routine enough that he will be comfortable. No phone calls yet so that's a good sign right? More news later!

Meet and Greet

Tomorrow is the big day! The first day of school for BOTH my kids! Al and I took them to Meet and Greet and they got to meet their new teachers. I was really worried about Cooper - he doesn't handle change as well as Olivia but after seeing his classroom and meeting his teachers, he's SSSSOOOO excited and has been crying to go to school! Olivia was so happy to go back and see Mrs. Chure and Ms. Jenny! She's got a new teacher this year - Mrs. Mandy and she's tickled to death that her teacher's name is MY name too. Silly girl!

He looks so grown up in the picture to me! Only 2 more weeks until his birthday!

Olivia in her "America" dress. She picked out the non-matching head band herself!

I'm not sure who's more nervous about school tomorrow - me or the kids......

I love....

Ebay! I love, love, love Ebay!!!! Olivia has been having a fit for this "Groovy Girls" mermaid doll and I finally found it online and WON it! Yay!!!!! Seriously, Olivia has told me *every, single day* that she wants this doll from Santa so I'm so excited that I actually found it.

My kids start school in 3 days!!!!!

Sidewalk Chalk

I got this idea from Emily's blog - so thanks for the idea Emily! I've had some sidewalk chalk in the junk drawer in the kitchen FOREVER, so I finally decided to let the kids take it and play. They had a blast! We did this a few days ago and Olivia AND Cooper have asked *every* *single* *day* if they can go outside and do sidewalk chalk again. I think Santa has a good idea what to put in those stockings this year! =)

Cooper "scribbling" - love that farmer tan. =)

I love this pic - I think because his feet and hand are in it! *clearing throat* I actually wrote his name though. Ha ha!

Olivia doing what Olivia does best - bossing her little brother around!

This is hard to see but Olivia wrote her name in pink sidewalk chalk. I love her "messy" handwriting, it's so sweet!

Cooper says........

Cooper doesn't say his name is Cooper - rather his name is "Big Boy" - how cute! But seriously....I need to teach him to say his name....he just WON'T do it!

Kids Chips and Kids Sauce

We had a really fun day out today and guess what? The batteries to my camera died the SECOND I turned it on and I missed out and several really nice photo opportunities. Total Bummer.

We started our day out with lunch at the only Mexican restaurant in town. Olivia and Cooper LOVE the "kids chips and kids sauce" - which is simply chips and mild sauce. Seriously, that's all they ate. I ordered them some rice and beans because they claimed they wanted that too, but didn't touch them at all. *sigh* Then we headed up to McBee and went to the peach farm. OMG, there were TONS of people there! I don't remember the peach farm being that busy last time we were there. We ordered ice cream and got some yummy boiled peanuts. I even talked the kids into going through the little museum there with all the old cars in it. Cooper enjoyed it because they also had several John Deere tractors but Olivia wasn't really impressed. Oh well. I did get out into the crowds for tax free weekend but didn't find anything I couldn't live without. I do have a few things I need to get the kids before school starts so I need to get busy on that. Speaking of which - can you believe that school is starting on the 14th! YIKES!!!!

Ok, I'm off to buy batteries for my camera.....I can't keep missing photo opportunities!!!