Back to School!

This was a very eventful week around here. Joe reached a few more milestones and the girls were getting ready for school to start.....today.

To commemorate the end of summer (note I said summer, not the end of the dreadful heat), we had a family pool day yesterday. It seems we've gone the whole summer without all being out in the pool together even once! Not sure how that happened. We'll have to do better next year.

I'll admit, Joe looks a little leary, but that's probably because the red tugboat floatie is pretty scary. It has a big smily face on it.....Alex wouldn't go anywhere near it. She said it creeped her out. I said it kinda looked like Paul.....

Anyway, it was a nice day together before the craziness of the school schedule and homework started back up. Alex starts Junior High this year which is just plain bizarre to me. I can't believe she's growing up so fast. She's goign to be running cross country and Maddie is focused on her dancing. She'll be doing a few more dances in competition this year than she did last year including a solo dance for the first time. We are very excited about their activities and will post more as the year goes on.

Joe is growing up just as fast it seems. He's 5 months old now!! This week he started pushing up on his hands when he's on his belly and he's rolling over pretty well from back to belly. He get hung up on his arm sometimes, but eventually he works it out. And he's trying so hard to go from belly to back. He swings his leg around and he gets it going, but then it just doesn't go. But he's working at it and I'm sure he'll get it soon enough. It seems all of this just happened overnight! One night he was still pretty stationary and now he's mobile - phase 1. Pretty soon we'll be running around after him. I guess I should rest up while I can!

More to come....