Renaissance Festival

Like I said in a previous post, we went to the Renaissance Festival 2 weeks ago. Julia had a blast!! Last year she rode a horse, but was very scared to do so. This year, she ran right up to them and hopped on without a second thought!



She also really liked the man-powered rides!



Although, the slide did scare her a bit because she started going really fast on it the farther she slide down it. You can see from this picture that she is a little worried. Her hands were in the air, because that is what they told her to do because they did not want them grabbing the sides of the slide.


Jude spent the whole time in the stroller just taking it all in.

Wheeee!

Sliding and swinging!

She's got wings!

Two weekends ago, we went to the Renaissance Festival. The whole time driving there and walking around, all Julia talked about was getting wings. She remembered from last year that they sold wings there.

One of the last booths we looked at that day finally had wings. Julia, of course, picked out the purple sparkly ones. We was THRILLED and wanted to know if she could now fly because she had wings.

My little Fairy! (She also picked out her outfit that day, hense the tutu.)

Ring like Mommy and Daddy

Jerrod and I have matching Celtic knot rings. We finally figured Julia was old enough to have a matching one too. We was very excited that she got a ring that matched Mommy and Daddy's.

Being like Daddy!

Jerrod has a chair that he sits in all the time when relaxing. He lays back in it.

The other day, Jude climbed up in Jerrod's chair and decided to be just like Daddy relaxing in his chair.

Breaking Julia's heart

Today we are breaking Julia's heart. Julia loves babies and continually tells me that I need to have more babies.

Well, today, we are making things permanent that we are done having kids. Both Jerrod and I feel like our family is complete. After all the trouble we had getting pregnant and staying pregnant, then with both kids having colic, we figured we better quit while we were ahead!

We told Julia that we are done having babies and she just cried saying "No, Mommy needs to have MORE babies!". Sorry, sweetheart, but you just don't have a say in this one.

Yum!

Popsicles are a new thing for Jude, but he seems to like them. Even though he makes a sticky mess with them.

First day of preschool!!

I wanted to put Julia into a preschool this year, but with me being unemployed, I just could not find one we could afford. I enrolled her in a couple of lessons at the Rec Center instead. I figured we would just put her in preschool next year.

Then this week Jerrod's aunt forwards me an email she had received from where she works. The local JVS Early Childhood Education Center runs preschools to give the high school students hands-on training and they had openings in Julia's age group. I called about it and it sounded great and was only $30 a month! I checked it out on Tuesday, the program sounds awesome. They do field trips, have parent days, an art show, investigation time, etc. Because it is a teaching program, there are about as many high school students as there are preschools, so the preschoolers get a lot of one=on-one attention. The high school students are the ones who do the lesson plans. There are 3 or 4 instructors there too.

Since it sounded good and the price was right, I signed Julia up! She started today! She goes on Thursday and Friday mornings. She was very excited this morning to go.


"Hurry up mom, lets go!"


Her new "Hello Kitty" backpack. (they needed a backpack for school)


Trying to get a picture at the front of the daycare, but the sun was in her eyes.


She took off running towards the door!


I stayed about 10 minutes to make sure she adjusted fine and that there was not any other paperwork they needed from me.

By the time I left she had already painted a picture and was off doing something else. When I told her "good-bye", she barely glanced my way and gave me the brush off.


When I picked her up, she said she had fun and was excited to go back tomorrow. I did not get much out of her about what she actually did, but as long as she has fun, that is the important part.

Back from vacation

We are back from vacation. Ended up not having internet connection at the lake house, so no posts while there.

Had a blast. Took LOADS of pictures. Kids LOVED it. BIG THANKS to Jerry and Debbie, especially for really helping with the kids so Jerrod and I got a bit of a break.

Still trying to unpack everything.