End of Summer

I had to put a tennis racket in her hand with this outfit on.

She definately has brown eyes and is busy, busy, busy!!

We started bathing all three together this past month. We haven't starting noticing body differences yet, or at least discussing them so we are taking advantage of one bath time while we can.

Where has the summer gone? Crazy that its already August and even crazier that my baby will be starting kindergarten two weeks from tomorrow. We have had a great summer. I feel torn right now as our summer winds down. I love the lack of schedule, getting to do fun outings, pool days, and staying in our pjs till almost lunch time some days. However, I'm tired of the heat, the sunscreen, the mosquitoes, and sometimes (ok a lot of times) 12 hours a day with all of us home together can be pretty exhausting. So I do look forward to a sense of schedule again, some one on one time with each of them, starting bible study and seeing adults on a daily basis at school. I am pretty, well extremely sad about Pierce starting school. I can cry if I try to talk about it and can't even let myself go fully there. I'm sad that he will be gone 5 days a week, sad that he will be there 7 hours a day, scared of him losing his innocence, sad that Holt is going to miss him nearly as bad as I will, oh and sad that I will have to be up shortly after 6 each day. But I am trying/learning to trust, trying to let him go, and know that he is so ready and it will be good for him. So pray for me as the day approaches, I hoping that the anticipation is worse than the reality. All that to say here is some recent pictures from our summer and a couple more funny things Pierce has said lately.

We were leaving the pool one day with the Pays and all three of her boys were upset in the car as they were pulling off. Pierce said, "Mommy, its rough having three children." Yes, Pierce it can be some days but we wouldn't trade it for the world!

One day when Jason got home from work Pierce said, "Daddy the frog died but we got some really good pictures of it on mommy's phone. (that is the dead frog). You want to see?"

We have hundreds of baby toads in our yard and Holt especially loves finding the frogs. We go outside to look for frogs all day long. Sometimes as soon as he finishes breakfast we are outside looking for frogs. I think he would do it all day long if it let him. He saw a snake in the back yard last week as we were frog hunting so I haven't been quite as encouraging of this activity this week.