First Day of School

I just realized I never wrote about Aschers first day of Pre-School. What an important date for me to forget to blog about!! I was a nervous wreck on his first day and as you can tell from the pictures...I left the room crying. Him going to preschool twice a week is GREAT. He needs the socialization, the time away from me. I need it to have some good bonding time with little bitty. We took pictures on his first day and  I feel they do a better job at documenting it than I can with words.

As you can see- I was unaware that my camera lens was fogging until after I had taken them and then of course he was done smiling for me. So we moved inside and tried again...

After taking pictures we loaded up and headed to school. Justin was able to go into work late so he was able to come with us which was so nice because I didnt have to worry about Brynn while I dropped him off for the first time. Plus I think it is neat that both his parents were able to come to such an important FIRST for him.

When I went to pick him up at the end of the day he told me had "SO MUCH FUN!" (granted they said he cried most of the day) Once home, I tried again to get some photos of him on the porch...

Now that we are almost done with his first "semester" of preschool- he has improved tremendously. He still cries most mornings when I drop him off (99% of time) but his teacher says that after I walk away he normally stops crying within a few minutes. He always tells me how much fun he has at school but that he "cries a little" and when I ask him why he says "I sad for mommy." Sweet boy loves his mommy! (I cant complain! I adore him!) How is he old enough to be in PRE-SCHOOL!?

Visiting Nana

Back in September we took the kids to see/meet Nana. Nana is the last living great grandparent the kids have. It is so special that they still have her. We sat on the patio and chatted and listened to the piano music playing above us.

Halloween

The week of Halloween Aschers preschool had "nursery rhyme day" where you could dress up in your costume and come up to school (even if it wasnt on your school day- ie- Ascher goes on Monday-Wednesday but nursery rhyme day was on Thursday). We went up to school and went thru the different rotations they had set up around the school. I wasn't very impressed. Not what I was expecting but Ascher was excited to have mommy at school with him.

Thursday afternoon Justin and Ascher washed my car. I had the camera out and figure why not capture some sweet moments of them together...

Friday we drove up to Plano. It was the worst drive EVER. It took us 6 hours. Brynn basically cried for 5 and a half of those 6. We stopped for her. We tried everything. Nope she just hates her car seat. By the time we got there, I got out of the car and cried. Literally stood in my sisters front yard and cried. Once  I got over it, we changed the kids into their costumes and headed up to their church for their fall festival. It was freezing and super crowded so we let the kids do the games, ate from food trucks and headed home. This year Brynn was an owl and Ascher was a fireman. He is all about firetrucks and fireman right now so per his request he was a fireman.

 family photo

Hadley & Roy playing the Hulk game

 Ascher LOVED knocking over the "bricks"

 Look how excited he is...and it is about CANDY! He is MY son. : ) 

 after they got their faces painted- 

posing on the way to the car

The week leading up to Halloween I made sure and dressed my littles in cute Halloween outfits. ; )

And after a night of fun in Plano- I made sure I took a picture of them in their Halloween PJ's the next morning. Aren't they so cute!? Love my littles.

Pumpkin Patch Fun

The 3rd week in October Justin had class on the other side of town (which is close to where my parents live) so after Ascher got out of school on Wednesday we drove over to my parents and spent some time over there. On Thursday, Mom and I decided we would take the kids to the local pumpkin patch put on by one of the churches. It was a lot of fun and I am glad we went.

 checking out all the different colors/shapes and sizes

 posing for mom

 aww the tear kills me

 Mom & Brynn walking around the pumpkin patch

 cheese!

 insisted he take a picture with SUPERMAN!

 Mom being a mummy ( trying to convince Ascher to go do it)

 Brynn being Mummy

 They had a cool little kid section that had a water pump. At first we couldn't get it flowing but with a little muscle we were pumping water!

 cuddles

 put Brynn to sleep

 love this one of the three of us. They had a corn treasure hunt. It had little treasures in the corn you had to dig and find them.

 Once we got the water flowing

 Passed out little bitty

 Mom & Ascher after the two of us went thru the maze while Mom watched Brynn

 HAPPY boy.

 "You're my best buddy Mommy!"

This was the next day after we took Brynns professional 3 month photos (almost 4 months)- more to come of those...