AWKWARD

Happy 5th Birthday!

This little guy is awesome.

The ladies, young and old, love Dag, and nobody--I mean nobody, can help but run their fingers through his amazing curly locks.

He is obedient, almost to a fault. If I ask him to do anything his reply is always, "Yes, Sir!" and off he goes. The other night Sam asked Dag to go get him something, and of course he said, "yes, sir," and when he came back Sam said, "Thanks, Dag." His reply was, "No Pwoblem." With his R being a W--so cute.

A couple of nights later, the doorbell rang and Dag answered it. Standing at the door were several cute girls looking for Spencer. Dag backed up a couple of steps and said, "AWKWARD!" A word far above his limited vocabulary...and once again, maybe I let him watch too much TV.

Oh, well.

The cute girls found it adorable, and wanted to hang out with Dag instead of Spencer that night, which is fine with me.

Truly, this little man is a gem, and we love him in our family.

Happy Birthday, Dag!

School Days

Hip, hip, hooray! School has started ! I LOVE, LOVE, summer, as much as anybody could LOVE summer, but this year I was ready to say goodbye to summer, so the kiddies could go back to school. I didn't realize how much my summer life revolved around fixing breakfast, cleaning up, fixing lunch, cleaning up, fixing dinner, cleaning up...and cleaning up every second in between...until now that they are all in school and my house is gloriously clean at 8:30am and stays that way until 3:30pm.

Sicily started the 1st grade, and couldn't be cuter. Yesterday when Makita saw her walking home from school, she pulled over to tell her how cute she looked. Sicily's reply was, "UGH! Everybody tells me that!" What a horrible problem to have. We had a little talk about manners last night too.
Elle started the 4th grade this year. She is the sweetest girl I know. She also loves dogs, and the neighbors brought this one to the bus stop this year, and I haven't heard the end of it since..."mom, can we please have a dog? mom, can we please have a dog?..."

Nate is also in the first grade at Galileo, with Sicily and Elle this year. His favorite part of the day is the bus ride, and it is a good thing, because he rides it for almost an hour and a half each day.

Dag's first day of preschool. He goes every day from 9:15-12:30, and Tuesdays and Thursdays he goes to another preschool from 12:30-3. He loves school, and is getting so smart. Now if we can just get him to add "BE Verbs" to his sentences... you know: be, am, is, are, was, were, been, have, has, had, do, does, did, can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, must...he doesn't use those words, EVER. I've had him tested for special language help, but he is too dang smart to qualify, soooo....if anybody has any suggestions send them my way. He is so dang cute, you want to just eat him up, so I'm not too worried.

Spencer and Carter were too cool to have mom snapping pictures of them the first day, but they are loving it as well. Spencer is a freshman in high school and Carter in the 7th grade.