First day of school!!!

Today was Maegan's first day of 4 year old preschool! It went very well, as she is going to the same school with the same teachers she had last year. I think she was pretty excited to go because this morning she was saying things like "at my school we get to have a snack!" and "at my school we have some new toys!" Aside from going one more day per week this year, as compared to last year, she also has HOMEWORK and gets to go to the LIBRARY each week!
Here she is, all ready for school:




And I'm pretty sure had I left Anna-Kate there she would have done just fine! She jumped right into the toys and could have played all day I think. I've said it before but her verbal skills continue to amaze us- her latest sentence last night at dinner- "I don't like that." (as she moved her dinner plate from her highchair to the dinner table.) Ryan and I just stared at each other, where has our baby gone?!

And, my 34 week belly! Only 30 days to go!!!

8.14.07

We got home from vacation last week and I had every intention of posting pics right away, sorry to those of you waiting on pins and needles to see them! :) You'll have to copy and paste the link, for some reason I cant link to it through here:

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We all had a great time being away from the real world for a week. The girls travelled well and loved spending lots of time with daddy! Maegan, Ryan and I got to go on a dolphin tour, which was really cool. We did lots of relaxing, swimming and playing in the sand.

It's good to be home and back into normal life, although normal life is sort of unscheduled and boring right now. No classes, school or planned activities, it seems that this is the calm before the storm? Maegan starts school in 12 days! I'm really looking forward to that, and so is she. She has the same two teachers she had last year, so that is nice. I can definitely see a loss of some things she was doing well at the end of the school year, so I'm eager to see her get those skills back. She will start her dance and tumbling classes on September 7th, and I know she's very excited about that. She is determined to learn how to do a cartwheel and a headstand, boy do I hope they come through for her.
Anna-Kate won't have any activities of her own until after baby sister arrives, when I hope to get her into a fall music class. I look forward to getting to do a class with just her! She's been quite injury-prone this summer but has had a good couple of weeks (knock on wood.) She's still picking up words left and right, a couple of my current favorites are "i did it!" and ryan says last night she was saying "i want mama!" She really amazes us with the things she can say- as I look back at things I wrote and videos of Maegan, she is saying things at 19 months that Maegan didnt say until closer to 3.
Baby girl arrives 6 weeks from Wednesday! I'm done being pregnant and ready to move onto this next stage of my life, as scary as it may be! I'm pretty uncomfortable at times, which I keep reminding myself somehow that pain and discomfort magically disappear (and are replaced by other pains!) as soon as baby girl arrives. So I hold onto that :)