First day of pre-k

I know some of you think Jadyn is in Kindergarten, but she is not. She will not be 5 until October and missed the cut off date. She was graciously allowed to attend pre-school a year yearly but that means now that this is her 3rd year of preschool!

She is officially a pre-k student this year. Yay!
She is also officially reading! Yay! (More on this later)

This is Jadyn's first day of preschool at FBC Raytown. She was 22 mths old when she started.
August 2010

Jadyn's first day of preschool at BRCS (a year early - 2 yrs old)
August 2011

Jadyn's first day of preschool at BRCS (for real - 3 years old)
August 2012

Jadyn's first day of pre-k. 4 years old
August 2013

Duck Dynasty and our end of Summer

Back on our amazing Florida vacation we were able to stop on the way home and visit Duck Commander. It was so much fun! While we were there we were able to pick up shirts for the girls. Of course I had to have a photo shoot the day they all wore them. Too cute to pass up.

The last couple of weeks before school started the weather turned absolutely gorgeous here. Now, you need to know that I like it hot. I like pool weather and it's almost been a little too chilly for that, but it has still been beautiful.
Jadyn and I got to spend the twins nap time outside. We got to read, do chalk, ride bike, and lot of other fun things. It was so nice to just be outside with my girl! We had half days yesterday and today so we've been able to go outside again. I will miss that when we are back in school full time next week. Boo!

This is Jaycie. She had a graham cracker. It's mostly on her face and ground up in her DD shirt. We had to wash it at Nana's because there was no way for it to be worn home. :)

Jadyn - playing outside with me. We were doing chalk this day. Yay for beautiful weather and SUPER YAY for SUMMER!!!

Our Eiffel Tower chalk art. Jadyn loves all things Paris.

17 months

Our babies are 17 months old. 

In 17 months(ish) we've gone from this:

to this: 

Thankful for these two (three)blessings!! 

Tubes

I have fought long and hard.
I fought long and hard with Jadyn and I won (no tubes, allergy medicine did the trick). I did not win with Jaycie.
On August 21, Jaycie will get tubes for her ears to help reduce and hopefully eliminate the ear infection battle we've been up against. The poor thing just cannot drain fluid out of her ears! It just stays in there and gets icky. She's a trooper and it doesn't usually seem to bother her but nevertheless she has an ear infection every time we get to the doctor. Who knows how many she's had that we haven't caught.

Anyway we visited a highly recommend ENT and he said she was definitely a candidate for tubes. Unfortunately we were not able to get in before school starts. (I think it has something to do with the fact that he only does the procedure 1 day a week). It's a bummer but Greg and I should both be able to arrange to be there with her. They will not put her completely under with an IV she will be put under with laughing gas.

Anyway, would you mark you calendar and pray for my sweet girl? We haven't been told a time yet but we do know they do the surgery in order of youngest to oldest so I'm pretty sure she will be fairly early in the day. She will be in the hospital for a few hours and then should be back to her normal self later that day. Pray for this Mama and Daddy too as we are dreading the whole hospital/surgery/recovery thing.

We are thankful to find a solution to all the ear infections though.
I will remind you.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you!