First Day of Kindergarten!

Madeline's first day of school went off without a hitch!  Wish I could say the same for her third day (the day I am writing this), when her bus driver drove right past her stop even though Chris was standing there waiting!  Yikes!  He quickly drove to the next stop and got her off.  Hopefully all the kinks will be worked out and that won't happen again.  But that aside, her teacher is new, but seems great and very sweet.  I think she'll have a good year.  She gets on the bus in the morning with all the big kids and it's been funny to watch her.  She knows a lot of the older kids and so far they are taking good care of her.  Last night, our neighbor Nick asked her if he could sit with her on the bus tomorrow.  She told him, "If I find you, then yes I will."  He said, "Ok, well save me a seat."  He's a 2nd grader; it cracks me up that he's asking to sit with her.  You go girl!  And Tuesday morning, she asked a little girl Kaitlyn to sit with her and said, "Let's hold hands Kaitlyn!"  And they did.  I'm sure I'll have more stories to post about her school days, but for now here are her first day pictures. 

 The Duellman boys, ready to walk with her to the bus stop!

There goes our big girl!

Summer Fun!

We had a great summer.  It was busy, but a good kind of busy (see all the previous posts below!)  Here are some pictures of some recent fun in August. 

We were able to have a quick visit with Mia, Nora, and James in Williamsburg at Mia's best friend Amy's house.  It was great to see them and Maddie loved playing with all of Amy's boys' toys (she has 3 boys!).  I realized we need some more cars and superhero stuff in our house.  Mia has been so good about coming back to the East Coast since moving to Colorado.  Maddie and Nora have been together just about once every summer.  They are so much alike, it's pretty funny.  Wish they lived closer!!

Madeline and Livia did a musical theater dance camp one week where they learned a routine to Mulan music and had speaking lines.  It was cute!  

Emmie's first time in the Barbie mustang convertible!

Loving life outside now that she can walk!