First day of Preschool!!

About two hours ago, I dropped my little man off for his first day of Preschool!

I have held it together pretty well, until I went to publish this post.

Looking through the photos I took of him this morning cracked me!

When did my baby boy turn into a 3-1/2 year old ready to head off for school?

I am so excited for all that is ahead of him this year...new friends and new experiences.

I know he will love it! He didn't want me to leave at 8 o'clock when the school bell rang, but there were no tears, so that is a good thing! He's growing up! 

I'm looking forward to being a room mom for Halloween and Christmas parties! 

So many fun things to come this year! 

Right NOW...I'm looking forward to going to pick him up!

I can't wait to hear about his day :)

 

Happy FIRST DAY OF PRESCHOOL, Little Bear!

Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you! We love you to the moon and back!

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We made a little gift to take to Barrett's teacher on our "meet the teacher" night!

I got the idea from this blog. If you need a teacher gift, you can print the straw flags HERE!

The cup I had made locally by Krenzer's Kreations! 

She is great to work with. I designed it, and she made it. 

(Barrett and I both have our own cups like this...we've used them all summer and love them!!)

A couple pictures from "meet the teacher" night at his school....

Oh, to be three again....

I (very) often wish I was three again!

With nothing to worry about but if mom will let me wear my Lightning McQueen shirt again today, 

eat cookies for breakfast, and run through the sprinklers shirtless tonight!

Ahhh....those were the days!

Justin spent almost every evening last week getting our sprinkler system back up and working. Even though it's on a irrigation well (aka costs us nothing), we hadn't turned it on yet this summer.  BUT all these 100+ degree days were making our lawn look like poo! So, with the first few waterings of the summer, Justin had some heads to work on. Barrett LOVED running though them as he tested each zone. Then, the day after he got them all working, I mowed the front yard and....mowed right over one of the heads that hadn't gone all the way back down! Oops! Lucky for us my dad had the part we needed, and now it's all fixed. I haven't been allowed to mow the front yard since ;(

And also...we've got some {hopefully} big changes happening for our family soon.

After many years of house hunting, and even thoughts of building, we've found a home we love.

Our house went on the market a couple weeks ago. If all goes as planned, our cottage will sell soon, and the new home will be all OURS! Prayers for a speedy sale, please!

Mater & McQueen!!

Say those two names, and Barrett will light up like a Christmas tree!

He LOVES the Cars movie.

Last Friday, Justin got off work early, so we decided to wake Barrett up from his nap and surprise him.

I woke him around 4pm, and ask if he wanted to go to the big movie to see Lightning and Mater. 

He sat right up in bed and said "yeahhhhh, mom! Right now?" 

This would be his very first movie theater experience, so we wanted it to be special.

We decided to take him to Wichita to the Warren! I was excited too :)

We went to dinner at Jose Peppers, and then headed to the 6:30 show.

We were there early, and Barrett was thrilled to see that they had a REAL Mater tow truck parked in front of the movie! 

We took pictures by it before heading in to get our tickets.

Barrett really liked the big rainbow curtain that rolled up before the movie started!

Barrett did so great at the movie. He sat up on one of the booster seats for the first half, then moved to Daddy's lap for a bit.  It was a looong movie (I thought), so I was getting restless too. It was cute, but not as good as the first. BUT still fun! 

On the way home, we of course made stop at DQ for blizzards!

It was a great family night, and so exciting to see Barrett having so much fun, experiencing new things.

Can't wait for our next movie!