Catch-up post

First day of kindergarten!
First day of 2nd grade!

First time getting dental work done! He did great!

There's Blake on the zipline at pioneer day! He was so brave.

Climbing the tall ladder to get to the zipline. He had no moment of hesitation!

Walking the rope at the pioneer day. Again, all by himself! He's really growing up.

The kids in the pioneer day parade ("Pioneer children sang as they walked, and walked...")

Julianna was invited to a "fancy" birthday party, so I did her hair fancy, of course! She let me spiral curl her hair in layers! A big first for her. It looked so cute.

Funny picture over the summer that Joel took. They love our indoor swing!

More funny pictures.

Phew! I'm caught up for now! School is back, and it's almost time to pick up Blake from kindergarten. Today is his first day by himself! He told me when I dropped him off, "I'm not going to cry!" And Julianna's teacher told me this morning that she did really well in her class--first year where she is in a regular class, all day (with some aide support). I think she will do fine!

Funny story

I have many pictures to upload, but until I have the time, I wanted to remember what happened yesterday after church (on Joel's birthday!) Julianna was given some nail polish by a girl in her primary class. We got home and were just kind of doing our own thing, and after a little while I noticed that they were in the bathroom with the door locked. So I go over to find out what they are doing, and Blake has his big toe painted and he very excitedly tells me, "Look Mom, Julianna painted my toenail!" And then Julianna showed me her work on her nails (and arms, and fingers) and was also very proud. I first tell Blake, well, that's very nice, but only girls are supposed to paint their nails. His excitedness immediately goes away, and he says, "Oh, well, can you take it off now?" It was too funny. So of course Julianna says the same thing (she's not much for nail polish anyway.) The funniest thing is that whenever Julianna gets any kind of girly thing, Blake is way more into it than Julianna, probably because she doesn't always get into girly things that much, so he's always excited to try them. And now that I think about it, even on the way home from church, I could hear Blake asking Julianna, "Are you going to paint your nails when we get home?" It's so funny having a boy and a girl!