First day of school

Another first this month was the kids started school! Brenna is in preschool and Jace is in early preschool. They were awesome, but pretty tired after the first day. 

Brenna had an ok day, didn't eat much and was sitting my herself when I came to pick her up. However, as the days have gone on, she really likes it. I think she splits her time between the kids and the teachers. She likes to sit with the teacher and watch her prepare stuff for the next day. Pretty funny. 

 Jace has been really fun to watch. He is such a proud little guy and loves to tell us about what all the 'Tiny kids' (the kids in his class) are up to. He is silly and goofy and you can just see how much he enjoys being there when you pick him up. He gets a little teary when we drop him off, but the teachers are great at distracting him right away.  He is eating like crazy, and has even become (slightly) less picky at home.

We've gotten lots of compliments on both kids being so polite and smart. It's been really interesting to see Brenna having some introvert traits, which totally makes sense and she really thrives on 1-1 conversations that are pretty deep and Jace who appears to be much more extroverted even though he starts off shy. He is VERY well behaved at school (I'm told) vs what he acts like at home and is a very determined-to-do-it-his-way kinda guy. We've gotten many more stories out of Jace, he's even sang us a new song her learned at school. It's going to be really fun to watch these 2 grow and change :)

Shake your tail feathers!

Birthday!!!

Brenna turned 4! It's incredible how fast the time went yet how long ago it all seems....

At her yearly physical she was 3ft 3.5 inches tall (49%) and 35.5lbs (55%) all perfect. She was great at the appointment and had no problem talking to all the providers and answering all their questions. She even asked about parts of the exam that hadn't been done yet. She did have to get 2 shots and she was NOT happy about that. She did pretty well, but has been limping for 2 days and had a decent fever from them. She let me know she was disappointed and ashamed and did not want the shots anymore. (she was just thinking of any negative words to tell me, she wasn't really ashamed!) 

So, Brenna was not thrilled to be taking a picture on her birthday. Granted she was not feeling great. But she was sure to make a point of telling me how she did not smile for her picture. 

Our next attempt didn't start off much better. I ended up bribing her with something to get this smile.  Maybe chocolate.

She ended up with 3 celebrations. The first at school on her birthday where she brought cupcakes to share. She told me it wasn't really a party because there was no cake. That night, we had a small strawberry cake that she had picked out at the store. Which she barely touched. Finally for her birthday party the next weekend, I made the cake she had described, pink inside with white outside and strawberries. However, within the few days between me buying ingredients and her party, she had changed to no strawberries and for it to be heart shaped. I thought she'd be ok with the compromise of heart shaped strawberries on top. You can see how pleased she was!

 Then she told me all about what she REALLY wanted...this kid...

Anyway, she recovered nicely with some gift opening. She loved all her presents! 

I apologize for not being better about sending Thank-yous out. It was pretty chaotic between moving, starting school, her birthday and 3 of us being sick. Brenna (without prompting) told me the next morning "Thank you for all the beautiful presents" xoxo love you all!