The First Days of Schools...

Tis the season, right? 

I could have (and maybe should have) broken this post into 3 individual ones... one per kid but preschool started (accidentally I'm told) a week early so 2 first days in one week = justified : ) 

I labeled all E's stuff the night before. She didn't go shopping with me this year for supplies because that's #complicated and she's a bit #picky. I did make legit attempts to find her a Rey or Leia folder but after spending waaaay to much time I realized it wasn't going to happen. 

Same headphones and bookbag (but she threw a tearful fit over the size or lack thereof this morning because folder + reading book + lunchbox = #supersized)

Waffles which can only mean one thing - BAKING POWDER not baking soda #mixedthemupbefore actually #twice

 Supplies

Waffles

1st grade

No teeth

Pippy longstockings

Everyone's looking but E was in a shadow #takingkidspicprobs

Hey there is a whole another person visible this year!

Then it was R and M's turn to try their hand at the first day of school thing... 

New shoes and R's pencil box but I still owe Mrs. Wanda about 75% of R's supplies #thankgoodnessitsjustprek

I could probably write an entire post on how these bookbags show the personalities of the little girls who wear them

Their breakfast pick... Pumpkin muffins! #gonnabuy10casesthisyear

Pre-K!

Except not looking : ) 

But this time she is!

#cannotpleasethemall #itoldhershecouldnotholdA

She is so cute and she happens to know it

2 yr old class

So excited to have her own bookbag

Probably one of the best kid pics I've taken in a while

So ready to go

Nervous but ready!

Some things worth remembering from the first week...

E,R - Bantering in the van

Me - R, wouldn't you like to hear about E's first day?

R - Nooo (like the heck no, kind of no. Like of course I don't, kind of no)

Me - Okaaay

Me - So you used one folder for homework and what did you use your glitter folder for?

E - Poultry

Me - What did you say?

E - Poultry!

Me - Poultry?

E - POULTRY!

Me - So you have a folder for chickens?

E - I guess soooo...

(thanks to a wise parent in the class, we discovered it is a POETRY folder - just for the record)

Also, R and her BFF/the one she's getting married to (according to her) were coordinating on the first day. He was in a yellow shirt and I PROMISE you his mother and I did not plan it. It was sweet especially since this is their last year together #lovebirds

My Morning in Pics..

Oh just another Tuesday morning in the Kibbe house...

M is up at 4:15... I don't go back to sleep

Coffee ready at 5:07... I get out of bed (Papa is already up)

R is talking/singing before 6:30

M is crying at 6:40

Get R out of bed at 6:50... E has her head buried in the covers

Papa gets the paper

E appears around 7:10

Start breakfast after 7:15... way way way late

E meltdowns for 20 minutes over the amount of cereal she has and does not have

E decides to not pout in her room and finally eat

I pack up bags... thank goodness I packed snacks in containers and got cups ready the night before

Papa gets R out and dressed 

E F-I-N-A-L-L-Y finishes breakfast.. 7:50ish

I get M dressed... feed her

Gather in the family room for prayers because going upstairs is just not going to happen...

Shoes, coats, bags, wits... stroller!

And we just survived another morning : ) 

Congress might move faster than we do...

Love it when I am walking out of the door at 8:29 - one minute before school starts.

This morning the girls were even out of bed before 7.

R was awake and waking up E before 6.

They were all dressed - but not hair combed by 8. Is grooming at the breakfast table completely inappropriate?

The yellow ball was taken away.

M woke up around 7:45.

E and R HAD to wear bows today

It is picture week at school and I am fearful of another Caterpillars picture experience for E - though we have already picked out an outfit.

It is negative degrees outside - not really its just feeling kinda winter-ish

I could not find my coat because it was in the front seat of the van.

Our racetime out the door can only improve, right?

Seven Quick Takes - T-minus 68 days

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{Here's to Papa}

Texted not spoken... but get the idea : ) Love him... even when he won't bring me water : ) Nani saved the day!

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I have missed taking pics of the girls in the mornings... Seemed like I had more time when E was not lalligagging at the breakfast table and R did not sit on the potty for 5 minutes (sometimes successfully) in the mornings.



They adore each other.

They are skeptical of me : ) 

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R was left at home for a random trip to a baseball game courtesy of some people Lee works with. She was entertained by Jibbe so I am pretty sure she would have taken that over baseball any day of the week.

The Durham Bulls retired Chipper Jones' number that night so it was jam packed plus we had to drive three times as far compared to our regular team we patronize.

Can you spot Chipper Jones?

It was fun though. E demanded that I clap every time anyone else was clapping and she wanted peanuts the minute we sat down.

Father-daughter peanut bonding moments : )

E, baseball teddy and Papa!

Probably one of my newest favorite pics.... snapped a few minutes before the rain started. It sprinkled - SPRINKLED people. and was does E do? Flip out!!!! She screams at the top of her lungs... "Let's get out of here" and goes into this frantic screaming fit. So I told her we could get ice cream "when it was 5" aka the 5th inning and the rain just happened to start then so.... after a quick visit to the potty (I HATE PUBLIC RESTROOMS!) we loaded up in the van and headed east-bound and down (right?) to Goodberry's. Ever since we had our ice cream outing Saturday, E has remarked that she thinks we need to go get ice cream EVERY NIGHT around dinner so she was thrilled about Goodberry's plus there was a fountain that changed colors and it was semi-raining-ish so she got to use her umbrella. She opted for some of my Mint Chocolate Chip concrete and NOT Papa's Raspberry and Chocolate concrete. I taught her well... or subjected her to my habits in utero... She dug into my tunafish lunch the other day so I have totally sealed her fate as a mint chocolate chip loving tunafish eating kid. Which means I have sealed my fate as a mama who has to open a can of stinky tuna fish at the crack-o-dawn to fulfill my kid's lunch request. I guess E and I have Grammy to thank for both of those : ) 

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{While driving to school/home}

E - Mama is a chicken lawnmower!!!
Me - What?
E - A chicken lawnmower
Me - What is a chicken lawnmower?
E - The chickens use it because they have wings and they hold on to the handles

I wish I could snap a pic of this four wheeler so you could see a visual but alas it is not in the cards at it is in a 55 mph zone and I'm not even going to try and pull off taking a pic while driving because that sounds worse than texting and driving.

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There are a few notable things going on in these pics.

1. E and R 'racing' down the driveway on their cycles. As soon as E got to the top, R would start zooming backwards as fast as possible but still never managed to get a W.

2. R think its hilarious that E is chasing her up the driveway in the little red car

3. E's abandoned attempt at 'being the coach' and instructing R on the fundamentals of 3 yr old soccer. R was more interested in picking up the cones and stacking them so needless to say her coaching career was short lived.

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The girls cheering Papa on during his 5 minutes of dedicated physical activity for the week : ) Sorry Papa you totally had to get called out : ) Not that you don't 'do work outside' but your stair climbing time is really the only thing that counts in my book - outside of pushing the weighed down stroller up the hill on our walks - which you resist mostly, and cave occasionally.

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Yeah... about those posts. I have got to crank out that 30 in 30 post... hmmm ASAP. Lee is getting the iMac updated so the monthly posts should be on the way. And I have been on a cross stitching kick / in denial that this baby is coming in less than 10 weeks... hence my blog absence! I'm sure Uncle Kevin will hold me to more posts though... negative ghostrider!

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My morning in pics #20

So this is what my house would look like if I was a full time stay at home parent...

My morning in pics - Cereal boxes and books #19

A. Don't let toddlers open cereal boxes

B. we need a solution to E's book problem.... Shelving low enough for her to reload/stack the book???? Yes please. Open to ideas if y'all know of a good toddler friendly shelving system

Happy Saturday

My morning in Pics #18

It was pajama day at school. After a minor crisis with Hello Kitty... E opted for Tinkerbell.

R enjoyed her morning at the store

My Morning in Pics #17

Maybe I can get back into doing these things again because they are way fun to go back and look at!


Well it was hat day at school for E which kinda threw me for a loop because well she does not have too many hats. So this was a super cute one!

R mastered the walker at Swimworld this morning we played chase... More like I ran around her in circles and she thought it was hilarious! She is still reluctant to pull herself all the way up but I am still hopeful for a trying to take steps one yr old by her birthday! Well maybe not... Walking is a massive game changer!

My Morning in Pics #16

I told E she was going to play soccer in March. She loaded up her cleats and soccer ball just in case it was today!

My Morning in Pics #15

E has been Papa's shadow today! First breakfast then vacuuming the van now digging up a stump.

E has her hands in her mouth so she is way nervous but loving every minute of the trackhoe / digger digging experience so she is not complaining!

My morning in pics #13

Butterflies and hair bands