Yesterday evening...

Jill stood up for the first time on a surfboard. This afternoon she asked if we could go surfing again.

I do apologize for the yelping. It's ridiculous.

Mia's verse

A few weeks ago the verse we learned for the week was short enough that Mia learned to say it all by herself. She was very pleased with herself. She could even say it with her eyes closed!

School Days

And just like that they are back in. Lucas steadfastly refused to say he was excited for school but his smile and eagerness Tuesday morning betrayed him. Jill gave no pretense about the way she felt. She was up, dressed and had her bed made before I was up. She has the same kindergarten teacher as Lucas, in the same classroom and with many of the younger sibling of Lucas's classmates. When I picked her up the first day the first thing she said with disappointment in her voice, "She didn't give me any homework!"
I took the above shot and we all started to the car and then Lucas turned around and "Oh, I forgot. Come here Jill, we should put our arms around each other."

Big kids

And Mia? She and her imagination seem to be doing just fine. We are having fun together my baby and I.

What our August looked like...

It seemed the kids were in water more than out of it this summer. The amount of towels we went through in August was shocking! I should have kept track. Both Jill and Mia made big strides in swimming this summer. Jill went from barely wanting to put her face in to swimming all over the "big" pool. She also discovered boogie boarding and is getting braver every time we go to the beach. Mia is not quite swimming everywhere by herself but she can swim out to me and back to the side again. Last night Lucas coaxed Mia into jumping in off the "high dive". At first she would have none of it even though he offered her several pennies and a trip to the yogurt shack. Finally he asked what she would want if she could have anything in the world. Without hesitation she said she would like pink. So he told her he would give her two pinks if she would jump off and so of course she did.

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