off to school! & new pics

Phew. The boys both went off to preschool yesterday. I have to admit I had major anxiety building up for Drew Drew's first day. Ethan went to school last year and has never had a problem making friends, going into a new setting, etc. So there was NO anxiety over him whatsoever this year. HOWEVER, my Drew is a whole different story. It took about a year for him to not get called out of the church nursery every Sunday because he did not want to be there and was crying. Needless to say, with school being four hours compared to the one hour that church is, I was almost positive we were going to have some major crying and phone calls from his teacher. THANK GOODNESS Drew has the same teacher Ethan had last year, so she had been fully warned (and witnessed first hand the very "strong and passionate" personality he can possess at times at some of Ethan's functions last year). We tried to hype up school to him big-time...making him feel super special and like a big boy. I knew once he got over the whole seperation-anxiety thing he would LOVE it like Ethan did. We took him to get new shoes just for school (he needed them anyways!).....he got a special haircut given by Grammy the week before.....he helped me make his lunch for school and even got to put his lunchbox into his backpack...etc. Well......this is video of me dropping the boys off at school the first morning.



That's right folks......NO CRYING!!! Yeah! Yipee! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah:-) I was so proud and so happy. When I went inside to pick him up I expected him to be waiting at the door like he always is at church, and he was playing blocks with a little girl. My heart melted...I'm so excited that he is doing so well so far. Ethan did great also....props to him as well.

Here's a cute picture I took of the kiddos taking a bath together the other night:

Sissy now LOVES to scoot herself all around. I left her in the middle of the blanket in her room and ran downstairs to get her laundry. Literally I was gone for three minutes at the most.....came back upstairs and this is where she was:

Here's some of her latest facial expressions:
Her "don't you just want to pinch my cheeks" look:

Her "Yaarrr..I'm a pirate.....ahoy mate" look:

Her "mmmmmm, I'm drooling just thinking about my yummy lumpy rice cereal" look:

Signing off for now folks......have a great weekend!