Mark is starting a new job, which has been a little emotional for all of us. He worked at GGPC for 10 years and it kind of took us by surprise. With that being said, he has great opportunities and looking forward to starting his new job, hopefully next week. He will actually be working in Athens too, which is also nice since he has worked in Swainsboro for the last 8 years!
I had my teacher conference with Mrs. Power, Hayden's teacher last week. She is doing great, no surprise at all. Right? She is reading on a 2nd grade level based on all of her test, no surprise there either, being that she is a total bookworm! Mrs. Power said that there is really not anything for her to improve on but to keep reading, adding, subtracting and always encourage her to learn more. I can handle all of that. Hayden reads in the car, when I am sitting in my chair and while I am preparing dinner for them. We practice spelling words while we are in the car, every afternoon and while preparing dinner. Now when riding down the road she will read signs and if she doesn't know the word she will ask "Mommy what does this spell". She is so anxious to learn. She reminds me of myself, I always loved school and learning new things. Of course, her conduct and following directions and all the other stuff were E and some were even an E+, which even I haven't received an E+ before! Mrs. Power also even used the word Genius! Wow! Mrs. Power said that Hayden listens extremely well, always follows instructions and takes every thing in, which are all 3 very important characteristics. To say Mark and I are proud would be a major, major understatement. This baby or I guess I should say little girl totally amazes us! I tell her every time I leave her that I love her to the moon and back! She now says it back to me and sometimes as I watch her walk into school, I get tears in my eyes because I love her so much and am so very proud of her. We also got her progress report on Tuesday. She has a 103 in Spelling, 96 in Math and a 100 in Reading. Proud, Proud, Proud that is what we are! As always she aims high and reaches for those stars! I bet you all know why! She is my shining star!!!
Gracie is doing so good with school and ballet. She is also learning so much from Mrs. Christie this year. She is so anxious to learn, Hayden is a great influence on her. Gracie wants to do homework, when Hayden does hers. So I make Gracie practice writing her name while Hayden and I do her real homework. She recently had take home teddy and she had so much fun taking care of him and drawing her pictures to share with her class. Who knew homework could be so much fun for a little girl. She also brought home the letter box. Guess what letter we had? G, because of Gracie. We found all kinds of things at our house that start with a G and put them in the box. I have never seen someone smile as much as she did while we did this project. She also had her fall party at school and guess what. She was the shyest little girl there but she did love the jumpy thing. I love my sweet girl, she is such a sweetheart, well that is until she gets mad or gets tired of being picked on. I have no idea where she gets that from. Okay, Okay maybe I do. It could be from her Mommy. This will be the only time that I admit that though!!!! Mrs. Christie still tells me every day when I pick her up that she is the sweetest little girl in the class. Last night at Ballet, I heard Mrs. Marie say "Gracie that is enough stop it and listen to me" As I sat there with the other parents, I knew it wasn't my Gracie! And it wasn't there are 3 Gracie's in her class! It was so nice to sit there and be so confident in knowing that it wasn't my little girl. When she come out I asked her if she got in trouble and she said "No Mommy it was another Gracie and she ended up having to go to timeout." So glad I have such sweet girls. She has always been my smiling baby and I love it. When she smiles it lights up the room. I also tell her that I love her to the moon and back every time I leave her and she too says it back. I watch her walk up that little walk way to school and wonder how my smiling baby could be so big already. As always she aims high and reaches for those stars too!
Colton, well he is just all boy, that is really the nicest way to put it. He wears us out! He is into every thing. He is the most determined little boy I have ever met. He insist on touching every thing on our table in the living room and it doesn't matter how many times you tell him No No or tap his little hand, he just keep coming back for more. He loves to play with Hayden and Gracie, or maybe I should say aggravate Hayden and Gracie. Although, I love it when he gets tickled, he has such a cute little laugh. He also has an innocent smile that melts my heart and he knows when to use it. He has finally stopped throwing stuff in the toilet. However, now he gets stuff out of the trash. Go figure, I guess boys like all sorts of yucky stuff. He absolutely loves to go outside. I think he likes all the freedom of running around and playing. He loves the sand box and he will go up the steps and slide down the big slide by himself. He is not supposed to, but he still does it. He makes me so nervous! He also likes the trampoline but he really doesn't stand a chance with the girls. They just bounce him all around and he never gets to stand up. One other thing he loves is pushing a baby doll stroller. I know, I know he is a boy but he sure does love it. In fact, he loves it when Hayden puts him in the baby doll stroller and pushes him. I figure he will grow out of it. For example today he is walking around the house with a play gun shooting stuff. He climbs on every thing, we have had to remove the very special stool that Pop made for the them out of the kitchen. He was pushing it all around and using it to climb on the counters to get things like cupcakes, suckers and to throw things in the kitchen sink...that don't go there...like his shoes!!! Oh that brings me to another thing....he loves to turn the water on in the bath tub and then he throws his sisters shoes in it and Mommy's slippers! And all of this happens while I am in the room with him putting his sister's hair in pig tails!!! His favorite word is still Mah(More). For some reason to him it means "I WANT". It can be very trying sometimes, he is trying so hard to get all out. And when he does it is probably going to be very interesting. He loves his tractor ride on toys, he even puts things in his buckets and drives around. He really likes to steal any I phone and take off with them. He has started pushing little cars, trucks and tractors all over the house and making vroom, vroom sounds. He really likes to push them all around the fireplace and climb it! He is still a very picky eater, one day he likes something and the next day he will not touch it. Although, he loved spaghetti the other night, maybe he is like Hayden and I. We love pasta. I love it the most when he is tired and gets his cup and cuddles with me. He is such a Mommy's boy! Boy do I love my determined, handsome, happy, smart, silly boy!!! We love you little man or as we say now COLT MAN! You aim high and reach for the stars too little boy.
The girls are now hog hunters, they have some little pink pistols that their Daddy bought them and they live in the playhouse and run out of the doors to go get those hogs out there in the woods. Talk about some funny stuff. Oh, and when they aren't hunting for hogs, they are hunting for skunks. They are some silly, silly girls. I told them they better watch out for those skunks because they will spray them and then they will have to take a bath in tomato juice. Gracie said "eew yuck Mommy" and Hayden said " I don't care I would probably drink it because I love tomato soup." I never know what to expect them to say! They keep me laughing though. Gracie tries so hard to keep up with Hayden, but her legs just aren't quite long and fast enough yet. Hayden is all of the place. Walking across trees, running through mud and looking in holes. Yeah, my little princess is pretty much a big ole tomboy! Gracie is a little prissy but she is starting to show more and more signs of being a tomboy too. I love that they have such great imaginations! The playhouse is finished and they love it. It is so adorable, I wish I had one when I was little. They play out there until it is dark outside, then they get a little scared. I guess those hogs and skunks may get them when they least expect it. They wanted to spend the night out there but when Gracie had to come in to go potty, Hayden came running too. Hayden is so much more scared than Gracie, but Mark and I think it is because she is older and knows more about all the animals and scary things outside. Oh, how I love my babies.
Mark and Pop went on their annual fishing trip last weekend. So that meant that Mimi spent Thursday-Saturday with us. Did I mention that the girls were excited! They were ecstatic. Hayden got to sleep with Mimi on Thursday night and Gracie slept with me. Gracie was a little disappointed, which made me feel good...just kidding, but I told her that she would get to sleep with Mimi on Friday night and Hayden had to sleep with me. That made it all alright. Hayden, talked to Mimi most of the night I think and she was so excited to get up and get ready with Mimi Friday morning to go to school. She is such a big girl and loves to do every thing herself. Then Friday night, we went to the GWA football game, because one of Hayden's Seniors is a cheerleader and it was Senior night. We stopped and bought some beautiful pink roses for Sue Anna, on the way. Hayden was so excited that she was going to get to go out on the field in front of every one to give her the flowers. She was the only 1st grader that showed up for this and she ended up going out on the field by herself. She was even more excited when Sue Anna kept her out there with her until the end and walked her back to me. It made that little girls night to get to do something so simple. I think it made Sue Anna's night too! Hayden is such a caring, wonderful little girl...every body that meets her immediately loves her! Then it was back home to check on Grandmama, Linda and Colton. Thank goodness they came to entertain our Colt Man. Aunt Linda is so good with him...she had him coloring, making projects and playing all kinds of things.
We are so very blessed! We have three amazing kids! I am so glad that one day they will be able to read all of this stuff that I have spent so many hours putting on this blog for them. I hope they enjoy it as much as I do writing it. It all comes straight from my heart. They are my heart and I love them to the moon and back!
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| Practicing for what she will look like in 2024 when she is named Miss Bulldog! |
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| Gracie Leigh, this is her school picture! |
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| Colton loving his spaghetti! |
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| My babies! One is a bookworm! |
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| I forgot to tell every one that Hayden and Gracie did all the measurements for the playhouse. Look at how they traced their feet to make sure everything was accurate...heehee! |
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| And there she is, my smiling baby! |
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| The girls did all the measurements and cutting and Colton did the painting! |
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