OUR GROWING FAMILY: Ear Piercing, Mineshaft, The Zoo & 3K Orientation

So I braved it last Wednesday and took Kenzie in to get her ears pierced. I always said if I had a girl I would get her ear pierced when she was very young and I was a chicken for the first couple months now I did it. I might be bias but I think it is super cute!!! Kenzie did great. She did cry but overall she was a super trooper! Then she got a super bad cold and that was the rest of last week. It was very sad to watch the little girl who never cries just miserable. She recovered by the end of the week which was great because we were going to have a nice laid back weekend. As my title indicated this was not the case. Friday night we hung out at home. Saturday Ben's Dad came over and they cut trees in the back and Ben worked outside for most of the day. I tried to get stuff done in the house. Then we took the kids out to dinner at Mineshaft - where we realized that we had not taken all four of the kids out to a sit down dinner (other then Ponderosa) by ourselves in a while. Not long after we got there we knew we were out numbered. A couple of potty breaks later - we did make it through dinner and actually ended up having fun too. We braved the arcade/game room and also had a good time there. All and all a really fun family time! Somewhere along our Saturday Ben and I had discussed a spontaneous trip to the zoo for Sunday hoping to avoid the rain. We did it! After early church and breakfast at our favorite place (Ponderosa) with Grandma Grace and Grandpa Dick the decision to go to the zoo was made. Sister Wendy was called and the speedy stop home to pack some stuff and a grocery trip to get some snacks then off to the zoo. It was a perfect day with the family. Got to celebrate nephew Xavier's 5th b-day and Grandma Grace's 25th (ha, ha) birthday too. I am always amazed that our kids are able to tolerate all the chasing and craziness without to many meltdowns. They are so wonderful. The zoo rocked - of course. It was a lot of fun and we only briefly got rained on!

So today was a big day as well. Calvin and Clayton had Orientation for 3K at St. Peters. All morning we were talking about them going to school. They were both very excited. At one point Calvin and Clayton were discussing how they have to do their homework and I explained that they did not have homework. Then Calvin stated that we had to go to the store and buy some homework. It was sooooo funny. The boys had to get their little backpacks on and it was cute. Ben and I both took them (Kenzie came along too). I was glad Ben was there because Clayton was a little nervous and had to keep coming back to us for reassurance. He was very shy and unsure. Whenever his teacher would give a direction he come to us. Calvin quickly jumped in and followed along with what the other kids were doing. They both did great. They even did an art project!! I am really excited for them to start in September!!! 2 hours 2 days a week. A nice little start.

Hoping this week is not quite so busy!!!

Kenzie with her new pierced ears!

Kenzie loving the Zoo!