My Big 1st Grader

1st Day of School!!!

I can't believe Colben is a 1st grader- where oh where has the time gone?
He's so handsome- even early in the morning!
Sitting at his desk just happy to be there!

That feeling lasted until right as we were about to leave and then he started crying--- I couldn't just leave him there so I walked over to him and asked why he was so sad. He said "I don't know what the teacher wants me to draw" I started getting a little teary-eyed because he was so concerned that his teacher hadn't told him what to draw and he just wanted to make sure he did the right thing. Ms. Kelch came right over and told him that she wanted him to draw his family and when he was done she needed him to be her helper for the day- he perked up a little when she said that and I felt better leaving him. He's such a sensitive little man and this just reminded me how wonderful of a son I truly have.

Meet your Teacher!

Meet your Teacher!!

Colben sitting in his seat- his table are the Zebra's! It's so fun to see the progression of going from circle tables to rectangle tables that have the little cubby underneath to put your supplies!!
He loves the reading corner-they have little couches with a little ottoman- very "grown up"
His cubby where he puts his back pack!
Colben and his new teacher, Ms. Kelch
She is soooooo awesome and i'm so happy she is his teacher!!
Colben's name is on the 3rd row down first name on the left.
The Music Room- I took these pictures mostly so my mom could see how cool the room is.

I love the rug
Mom- does this look familiar?
Outside his school. We actually don't pick them up in front like we did at his old school. We pick them up in the back!

We can't wait for tomorrow!!!!

Bring on 1st Grade!!!

Day Before School Party!

My friend, Michelle, put together this great party for the kids the day before school started. She had activities and games for them and it gave us moms a chance to visit. She is awesome and the kids had a great time!

Pin the worm on the apple- Danika decided her worm needed to be on the bricks!
Colben got really close!
The kids decorated bags to use on the scavenger hunt!
The group!!!
This was Colben's team for the scavenger hunt!
She had school supplies hidden throughout her back yard and Eric's mom read clues to them and they had to search for the goods!
It was a really fun way for the kids to get together and play before the new school year began! Thank you Michelle for such a great activity!

Our Amazing Trip to.....Decatur?

I know, I asked myself the same thing-- where is Decatur and what's there?

Well apparently, there is a motorcycle track, a little town square and a fun playground and that's about it!

I'm assuming this is their County Courthouse or Town Hall or something. It had some really neat architecture so I thought i'd snap some shots!


Danika loved this swing- so did Ben!

There were bells you could play- kinda got annoying after a while!



The playground was really cool and looked like the town!

Danika and her Daddy

Daddy's Little Girl!

Ben had a double header softball game so in between games we stopped at Burger King (Queen in this case) and had dinner. She's got him wrapped around her little finger!!

MY NEW TOY

I am the proud new owner of a dirt bike!!!

After watching an episode of MTV's "Made" where a snobby, prissy girl learned how to ride a dirt bike and even entered a race I thought to myself "I can do that!"

That wasn't the only reason though, i've always loved motorcycles and while watching Ben race I imagined myself doing it and how much fun it would be.

Ben didn't need any more reason than that to call the motorcycle shop the next day and have a Honda CRF 150R ready for us to pick up!!

I still don't have my gear (on order) but i've got everything else so we went to a friends' house in Bartonville who has some property and I rode around for a while. This actually isn't my first time riding- as soon as we brought the bike home I rode it around our house and had a blast.

I felt like such a goober riding in my jeans- I compare it to seeing someone on the ski slopes skiing in jeans- just not cool!!
Ben had me work on cornering so I found 2 trees and did figure 8's around them.
Proud to say I haven't wrecked yet!!!

Our friends have Donkey's so Danika wanted to play with them the whole time.

Danika took this picture of me!

Our Crazy Conversation

So i've read on a lot of people's blogs conversations that they've had with their children and the funny things they say so I thought I would blog my conversation I had with my kids today as we were running errands!
Colben: Can I drive us home?
Mom: are you kidding?

Later as we were on our way home:
Mom: Colben if you had a million dollars what would you buy?
Colben: I would buy a new movie player in our car because ours is broken and I really want to watch lots of movies in the car.
Mom: Colben, if Mom had a million dollars, what would she buy?
Colben: A juice maker
Mom: A juice maker? Why that?
Colben: I don't know- you know, a machine that makes juice!
Mom: Danika, if you had a gazillion dollars, what would you buy?
Danika: A toy.
Mom: A toy? What kind of toy?
Danika: A Star Wars toy.
Mom: Danika, if you had 1 dollar, what would you buy Daddy?
Danika: 2 cars
Mom: What color cars would you buy him?
Danika: a sweet blue car (she said this with a little help from Colben who explained that when you say sweet it's like saying something is really cool)
Colben (to Danika) you want to go to the dollar store and buy Daddy 2 sweet blue cars?
Danika: Mom, let's go to the dollar store right now so I can buy Daddy some cars!

This is when we pulled into the garage and Colben said to me "If I had a dollar I would want to go see that new Star Wars Clone Wars Cartoon- can we go do that tomorrow?

Isn't it kinda nice to look at money the same way that our children do that have no concept whatsoever of the value of a dollar?