Week in review

The weeks are just flying by it seems! Last week was our first full week of jr high and kindy. Both kiddos did great. Including Chase, who has to get up so dang early just to catch the bus. This is his choice and apparently loves riding with all of his buddies around the neighborhood. Between school and sports, we have stayed busy. Chase has baseball games on Monday nights then its football for the rest of the week and weekend. He is keeping up with his homework and sleep, for the most part. He is truely learning what it is like to be an teen/adult. Here are some pics from his last scrimmage.





Hey, I wanted that!




Sometimes he is so beautiful in form....


Sometimes he isn't.

We have had a great week in kindy as well with Ella. I signed up to be the room mom for the first time and plan on trying to get involved with the school and my baby girl! Little sis is doing pretty well without big sis around. I have given up on naps with her because of the shortened time and her ability to fall alseep around the time I need her to be awake. Cranky Kyndall is no fun to haul up to school.


Walking in with her besties, everyday. They all rotate who is in the middle, it is so adorable!!



We have had a couple playdates already. Ella is in heaven but leaves this behind:


Kyndall hasn't quite figured out why she can't come as well. It is a heart breaker!!



She does love to go get sister. It is a grand homecoming, one I don't think Ella understands but I know she feels the love!

Since it is almost college football season our times back to the parents' houses will be far more plentiful. Well on those weekends we don't have our own football games :). We went back last weekend for a wedding and the kids got some good nanie and papaw time.

And of course, some awesome auntie time!


Yummy nectarine galette I made for us to snack on Friday night! It was so good!!

Although it has been a little harder to wake up super early, I have been blessed to watch the sun peek her head up over the horizon for 9 days now. It is a great reminder that I am alive and it allows me to focus my brain on the crazy day ahead.


Happy Monday to all!!

A Letter to My Ella

Dear Ella,

  Last week you took a flying leap off of the building we all call life. You started kindergarten. As I sit here, late at night, I just can't get over how brave and independent you are. Your daddy and I have always said that there is something about your nature, your smile, that tells us that you, my dear lady, are going to change the world. After watching you take this flying leap last week, I am certain that this still holds true.

You are so independent and ready to be your own little person. I believe you look to Chase for that guidance, seeing as he is the same way. And although at times I cry because I want you to be the total opposite, I am immensely proud that you aren't. I was shy as a child and still am at times. But you my dearest daughter, are not at all. You want to be every one's friend and will go out of your way to make friends where ever you are. You are so confident and sure that you have just as much to offer them as they have to offer you. That is something some of us work our whole lives trying to learn, how to believe in ourselves.

Kindergarten, or just school in general, is going to be so great for you. You will learn so much and your desire to learn will be fed with great teachers and with the teacher you have waiting for you at home. I will forever be so proud to have witnessed your first day of school and every day since that day. You have taught me more in one day than I could learn in a lifetime.

I will miss you so while you are gone during the day but I know deep down that this is where you belong. Being educated is going to take you places you could only dream of. Being strong and sure of yourself, is what every mother wants for her daughter. Life couldn't get any better right now :).

Have fun and good luck to my #1 kindergartner!
Love,
Mom


PS: I TOTALLY stole this idea from my favorite blogger, Kelle Hampton! I just couldn't resist writing one to Ella after reading her letter to her daughter, Lainey. A huge thanks to her for sharing her letter and reminding all of us mom's to write down those little details in life for our girls to read when they grow up.