House again

Yes, there are probably going to be a lot of house updates these next few months.  Like I said before, we are here every day just about.  I'm sure the construction workers roll their eyes everytime we drive by.  I guess that is the benefit to living only 2.5 miles from your new house :).  Most of the time I just drive by and don't stop because I can tell not much has happened within the past 24 hours.  Today I got out and took a few pictures of how far they have come with the framing.  How exciting!

 Back view of the house.  That's Little J in front of the basement.

 Garage side view

House

Just a few phone pics of the house.  We usually visit everyday and for the last few weeks the progress has been, well, boring :).  I know the foundation is important and blah blah blah but it took forever and it seemed like there was a lot of time where little was going on.  Today was exciting though, we are starting to get walls!

Garage flouring has been poured!  I sure hope they level out a flat driveway though.  I'm sure the builder is tired of me talking about it :)

 I'm not really sure what this picture is supposed to show other than we have a port a potty in front of the house.  I guess that makes this an official construction site!

Trip to meet our new cousin

We headed "home" to meet our new cousin (my nephew) that made his appearance on June 11th.  He's so cute!!  It was great to meet him and see the family.  I'll post more pictures of that soon as soon as I edit them.  Meanwhile, here are a few snaps from my phone.  We always love being with the P family and enjoyed our visit with them too :)

House update

Here are a few updated pictures of the house.  We seem to be coming along!  They poured the foundation and have been working on the concrete in the basement (and water proofing happened).  

 Little snickerdoodle is way back there at the end of our imaginary driveway.  He LOVES playing in the dirt at the new house.  We are hoping our driveway is going to be nice and flat at this house.  A steep driveway is one of the many things about our current house that we don't love.  So far, so good!

 Basement view.  The backyard is going to be nice and shady with all the trees we have back there.  Hard to believe the basement is western facing with all that shade!

Soccer girl

Just two of my little soccer girl.  Love her :)

Let's party!

Yesterday we had a little party playgroup for Miss C's TK class. We invited the whole class to celebrate the end of preschool (sniff, sniff) and the beginning of summer. All but one of her friends was able to make it and they had an absolute blast. We really did get lucky with such a great group of kids (and awesome teachers)! I did kind of a cat-in-the-hat theme based on the book "Oh the Places You'll Go" and it turned out pretty cute.

 We got a bouncy slide that we hooked up the hose too and the kids had a great time with their own personal slip and slide!

Congrats kiddos!

Kindergarten bound

I'm not going to lie, I'm having a rough time with this. My little baby graduated preschool today and is kindergarten bound in the fall. The emotions have been building for the past couple of weeks and yesterday and today have been rough. I went to pick her up yesterday for her last day of preschool. Everything was fine, until I started to riffle through her backpack on the way home. In it was her name tag and other items from her class that they had up the first day of school. I totally lost it. I mean, big ugly cry lost it. I can't believe her preschool days are coming to and end and she is starting real school in the fall.

Over the past couple of months she has slowly been letting go of her babyhood. I'm sobbing just writing this by the way. Her beloved Baby (the one that she has been attached to since she was 9 months old) is no longer needed and now resides at the foot of the bed untouched. Every great once in awhile, she'll hold on to her for comfort, but those days are few and far between. Over the past few months, she's gotten a new found confidence about her and my heart swells watching this little girl become more sure of herself.

Back to graduation....they had a great little ceremony for the kids including a song about being ready for Kindergarten. I suspect there was not a dry eye in the house!

Here is my big girl walking in

Here they are doing their little song.  Seriously, it was the cutest thing I've ever heard :)

Getting her diploma.  Yesterday I wrote that Little J sprinted to get his when he graduated from the 3's program.  I hardly got a shot of him before he ran back to his seat.  Look at this little one today.  She really knows how to make me smile :)

Family picture with my kindergarten bound girl.  You can't tell, but I'm sobbing behind the big glasses. We are so proud of your Miss C!  We cannot wait for you to start your lifelong journey of learning.  Kindergarten is the first step in that journey and we couldn't be more proud of you!

3's program graduation

My baby's first year of preschool is over :(.  Little guy graduated today and is ready to go to Pre-K.  Thank goodness it's not kindergarten just yet.  I'm not sure I could handle that (although I have to deal with it b/c Miss C is headed that way whether I like it or not)!  Anyway, his preschool had a little celebration to close out the great year.

Here he is with a drawing of what his favorite thing about preschool was.  It says, "I liked swinging on the tire swing."  I have a sneaking suspicion that throughout his life, his favorite subject is going to be PE or recess :).  Some of the other kids like reading books, liked the teachers playing games with them, you know the academic stuff.  Not that my little one isn't into academics, but it's become increasing clear this one loves sports and all things related to physical activities.  I hope he can strike a good balance between the two!

Here he is getting his diploma.  It all happened so fast that it's totally blurry and he practically ran back to his seat.  So much for that perfect picture moment :)

Proud mama...

I guess the excitement of graduation from the 3's program to Pre-K was just a little too exhausting for this little guy to handle.  After the celebration and lunch, this is what I found on our way home.  Considering this little one RARELY sleeps, I'll chalk this up to a good day for everyone involved :).