Little Bits

Jog a thon

So proud of her little legs pushing it around 16 times!

Birthday celebration

The boys made and flew paper airplanes with daddy when he woke up and even let his be the winner and get the sticker. All their idea and doing.

We all surprised him with a beautiful birthday banner counting the ways we loved him. So fun to hear the kids come up with their own reasons.

It turns out the Mary Sees celebrates her birthday in september as well so we got extra samples of See's chocolates and birthday hats.

At least it made Nate happy. (Spence is just turning a stinker leaf over lately.)

Gifts were wrapped and decorated by camilla- which really pleased her.

Spencer swims really well. It will be great when he learns how to come up for air.

Cami finally has overcome her fears of going down, down, down. This is huge and her doing little at a time. The big breakthrough came when Grandma held onto a tiny edge of her suit between two fingers and Cami realized she COULD do it. phew.

I'm not in too many pictures so we will include this to show that I was there, that I love my husband and that I occsionally hold things by sticking them down my shirt or swiming suit- shiny spatula- only the handle made contact with my skin.

Candles were all blown out- all 41 minus a couple dozen
(it had cool whip on the top, I didn't want to melt it all.)

What would have been nice here in this picture is to insert a video instead to watch his little seen celebration dance that we get to see A LOT. Do you know that side of Mark?

We ate the cake aggressively. "Better than all that stuff cake"

Nathan ate the most.

place cards

Freeman family sunday dinner. Camilla wrote out everyone's names to tell them where to sit- all 18 or so of us. She loves doing her homework and spends most of her time creating more school work, books, pictures, writing letters and numbers... at her school desk. She decides on her own that her S's need work and fills pages of carefully curved snakey lines.

visits with Ivy, Joe and Ali

sharing rides, snacks, and laps

I told you he is the newest part of the show. every. time.

We like the new kimodo dragon better than the hyped up new king cobra.

getting ready to send off Grandma and Grandpa

School Bus

She wanted to ride the bus. We knew it went right by our house so we thought we'd give it a try.

You have to talk to the right people and not the wrong people or you will just end up standing at the bus stop waiting and having busses drive right past you.

We finally got it all figured out-

and she hasn't turned back. l.o.v.e.s. it!

This big ol' bus only picks up 2 kindergarteners, hand delivers them to their classroom and won't drop them off at the stop if I happened to have fallen asleep and hasn't there waiting for them.
Don't worry though, you can chase and flag the bus down feeling like a pathetic and tired mother.