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Yep that is right, the two boys are in school all day- 8:45-3:25 and I am enjoying just having the girls.

Matt just finished out his first week of Kindergarten with Mrs. Moore. He loves it and is in a class with quite a few other children we know. When I asked him his favorite thing about the class, he told me it was the carpet- it is the same one as was in his Pre-school class last year. Aaahhh, the important things in life 🙂 On Matt’s First Day last week it was about an hour and a half when the parents went with the students. We all got a tour of the school, Matt was chosen as Line Leader and got to hold Timmy the Turtle the class Mascot since Mrs Moore’s class is known as the Terrific Turtles.

Matt on his first Day

Line Leader Matt

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Mrs. Moore, Matt and Phoebe in line on the

Andrew is finishing out his second week of second grade with Mrs. Warnick. He likes being back in school but it has been an adjustment for him. Mrs Warnick is a firm believer in HW and sends home an hour worth each night- a few worksheets, phonics reading aloud (which is not necessary for him, but I want him to know the work is necessary whether or not he feels it is worth his time or not), and reading 25 minutes a night to himself. Since when we walk home we arrive at home roughly at 1600 and dinner is at 1700, Andrew gets virtually no time off for anything fun or to unwind on school days.

Andrew on his First Day

Andrew attends 2nd Grade at Hillfield Elementary

Andrew excitedly waiting for Second grade to commence

Andrew in his class- right in the middle back turned

Rora is so fun lately. she is making this kissing/smacking lip sound lately and then she cracks up- she thinks she is so funny (and I agree). She is pulling up to a stand on anything and everything and mostly on mom. While we are glad that she is doing so well, she is also very fast and sometimes when I have to set her down, she pulls to a stand onto me before I can get up to get the phone or whatever I am having to do and then she is upset when I ‘abandon her’ to get something done. She is great though and yesterday she stood unsupported all by her self for 30 seconds!!!She is the funnest and sweetest baby that I remember having (of course she is the only one that is a baby right now so I am likely not remembering the others). outputmvi_7182

Evelyn has started to talk so much more lately and it is getting more understandable all the time. She has also been working on her sign language. She has signs that we all recognize but aren’t the same as official ASL. She loves and misses Robert so much she has started wandering around telling people “Daddy me Handsome, Me Daddy’s Princess.” Here she is with her ‘I Love You’ sign.outputmvi_66041

Well we went down to Arizona on June 30th and arrived at Uncle Dan’s house around 4AM on the 1st July. What a long trip with the 4 kids. Thankfully my cousin Lance was coming with us and we were able have him help by driving so I could sit in back and pay attention to the kids. Evelyn had diarrhea on the way down and the boys couldn’t stop for bathroom breaks when we were at a bathroom nor at the same time as each other so Matt learned that he could ‘paint the countryside with his urine’. It was so unique of a trip. We had a blast once we got down there though. We got to visit Grandfather all of the days we were down there save one, and the kids got to pick stories for Grandfather to read to them and we videotaped it so we could see it again whenever we want to. All the kids loved the pool in Uncle Dan’s backyard. Andrew eventually became comfortable in the water and began to practice the crawl stroke.outputmvi_65871 outputmvi_6598Matt was a little daredevil jumping in by himself and asking the Vandermark boys to throw him and wait until he came back to the surface to help him. Evelyn was thrilled to be in the water as well since she has been forbidden when the boys are in swim lessons. She would jump to anyone who would catch her and dunk her own head to get ‘wet hair’.outputmvi_6599 outputmvi_6604 She is silly. Rora liked the water as well and the first time she was in she was splashing her arms and kicking her legs doing the doggy paddle almost by herself, but she got cold faster than the others so got to spend considerably less time in the pool. Besides visiting with Aunt Marilyn and Uncle Dan, Grandfather, and Lance, Uncle Jack and all of that Vandermark family came, also Aunt Pam and Daniel and we even got to see Grandfather’s brother Uncle Jerry and his wife Aunt Lupee and one of their sons Lee and his three children Ryan, Gracie, and Adell. It was a blast but I am sure that many people was trying for poor Aunt Marilyn. We are all glad she was willing to let us come, but also glad to be home again.

Yep, she will officially be my earliest trained. Evelyn is doing so well, today she just had her first success at a bowel movement in the toilet. And she told me by herself several times that she wanted to go to the bathroom adn held it until we got there! We had no accidents today adn we are almost at the end of week three (I think- could be two weeks). Most of the time I ask her every so often, but the fact that she is telling me she needs to go tells me we are close!!! I am thrilled and so is she because now she can wear her princess underwear 🙂 She is so fun to take to the bathroom because she is so fast (none of that wait for ten minutes or so until they finally decide to go) and she tells me ” It’s coming” and then it does! It is very cute and she gets this darling smile after she does it.

Well it has to be summer, three of my four children have skinned knees. I have been told that is what happens when kids play outside all the time and wear shorts. I don’t know, we have been through two boxes of band aids and a goodly amount of Neosporin in the past few weeks. I just thought I would share the joys of the summer in the Mayo home.

Well it is fun to get some scrapbooking done and I am thrilled with how things are turning out lately, Thanks to some good advice and another mind to bounce ideas off of. Tell me what you think!

Yep this week Rora put it all together, the rocking, the motions and the idea of mobility all finally came together and now she is MOBILE. Check her out, it is so cute. I was on the phone, so ignore what i am saying, but watch how cute she is:) OK, I will have to figure out how to shrink the size of a video clip, then I will add that part.