I see you

I think Connor has figured out how to be cute :)

Tae Kwon Do Girlie

Megan officially started Tae Kwon Do this evening.
She came home practicing her new moves on Max. I am not sure if I should be concerned about that or not. It certainly won't hurt her learning a little self-defense.

When are you too old to stay out all night?

I think that is the question Bill was asking himself this morning/afternoon.

After another round of neighborly bean bags, I think the recycler man is going to wonder why so many empty bottles, cans, misc... were in our container this week.

I really dont think he would question it, there are still more baby food jars than the other stuff in there. That is a good enough excuse right there :)

I think it was sometime after 3 am when we finally went indoors. I am still not sure how he got up for Church at 7:30, but he managed. He also manged a 3 hour nap in the afternoon.

How is he going to contend for the championship bean bag competition this weekend?

Waukegan Air Show

Max, Daddy, Papa and Leroy all went to the Waukegan Air Show to enjoy some aerobatics by some old war planes. I guess they also got to see "a bathroom with an engine behind it" as Max stated to me.

Max's First Day of Kindergarten Kapers

Today was Max's first day of Kindergarten Kapers (Pre-K) at the Zion Park District. He has a new teacher this year and only one of the girls from his class last year is in this class. I asked him what they did today and he told me that he couldn't remember. Must have been fun :) Once I drilled him for information, I found out they colored, cut things and played. Next year at this time, he will be in the real deal Kindergarten. Time sure flies by.

Ooh...Shiny

Ooooh...Shiny

Connor just loves this thing. He just stares at it and his eyes get so big. Keira would rather just try eating it.

BBQ

After the parade, we came home and lit all the citronella candles, torches, and PIC burners we could find and layered the whole family in about 10 coats of Off. We fired up the grill and had Rob, Laura and their kids and Kareen, Bryan and their kids over for dinner. Everybody brought a dish and we all had a good time. Everyone ate too much and the kids were all happy to play with each other. Max loves it when Timmy and Zach come over to play. There aren't very many boys in our neighborhood, so when they come over, he is always so excited. Keira and Connor spent most of the time inside, so the bugs wouldn't carry them away. As you can see Keira was showing her big blue eyes in this shot.

Bryan is our Mr. Fixit, so he earned his meal by putting a new light in Megan's new room. He thought this job was pretty easy, so I guess next time I need to make his jobs a little harder to earn a good meal :)

Labor Day

We battled the mosquitoes in 85 degree weather at 1:00 in the afternoon (which is just about unheard of around here) to watch Megan march in the Labor Day parade with her Girl Scout troop. She was throwing candy as she rolled on by in her Heeleys. The Zion Labor Day parade is the biggest one in the state of Illinois. They claimed over 10,000 spectators attended this year and there were over 100 different entries in the parade. I think the first entry in the parade should have been a mosquito fogger.

Labor Day Parade

Room shifting

Well now that the twins are getting bigger and really can no longer share a crib effectively, we decided to move them out of our room and into Megan's room. Megan has moved on to the basement. She always enjoyed sleeping down there on my days off because it's quiet and it's usually a "Max Free" zone. (I am sure it has nothing to do with the big screen TV) We moved her bed and some of her stuff down there and I think she will enjoy it. When her friends come to play, she always goes downstairs anyway. She is just getting all grown up and already asking for a phone line, a cell phone, an email address, etc...

The real kicker that made me feel old was when we went shopping earlier in the day, she bought a Tiger Beat magazine, so she can hang the posters on her walls.

The twins moved into their own room and so far are sleeping in a crib and the Pack 'n' Play. Connor doesn't seem to mind the Pack 'n' Play yet, but we are going to get him a big crib too, so he doesn't start thinking his sister gets preferential treatment (even though she is a princess).

Amusing

I found it amusing today that Connor is already starting to aggravate his big sister Keira.

They were both playing and rolling around the living room floor, Keira started crying so I put her pacifier in her mouth. Connor rolled over to check her out, reached over and stole her pacifier out of her mouth. He then proceeded to put it in his mouth as she lay there screaming. It starts already, I can hardly wait :)