2nd Grader In The House!

I can not believe how quickly the last two years have flown by.  It seems like only yesterday that I was registering Savannah for kindergarden… second grade snuck up on us fast.  She was so excited to be back at school… she loves her teacher and has friends in her class.  All is right with the world.  I can already tell that this is going to be a great school year.

State Fair of Texas 2012

As always, we had a fantastic time at the fair this year.  Savannah rode all the rides she wanted to, Ryder love seeing all the animals and the ride on tractors, and Eric and I ate more than enough fried food than we probably needed to.  I seriously look forward to the fair all year long.  One of my most favorite Texas traditions.  

Ryder loved these face hole cut out things.  He knew just what to do when he walked up to them.  Eric had to pick him up and take him away so other people could have a turn.  Pretty sure he would have stayed there all day sticking his head in each and every hole.

Lucky lucky girl... the giraffe in the petting zoo came and ate from her cup.  She was so so so excited.  Side note, giraffes are not as soft as you might think... kind of rough.

Ryder and his GF Bella inside the kissing booth.  Pretty much the cutest pictures ever.  He loved on her nonstop.  She was clearly not as interested as he was.

Obstacle course that Southwest Airlines had set up.  Savannah begged us to let her do it.  I thought that she would be too little, but she was just tall enough.  I'm not going to lie, I'm that mom that was secretly hoping that my kid would get knocked down...  a good laugh would have made up for the long line and ridiculous waiver we had to sign just so she could do this obstacle course.  No fall though, she made it through without and slip up.

Not sure if she will be doing this ride by herself again.  She had to lug that heavy sack thing all the way up to the top and then she flew down that thing so fast.  The video cracks me up, serious face all the way down.

Insta-Friday

Our week captured by my little ol' iphone:

Last Friday night... me and my baby girl chilling on the couch watching some TV.  Then we went to be seriously early.  Oh how the times have changed.

Made a trip to Dallas for some big city mall shopping.  Found these sweet hats at H&M.  Bought them for Ryder, but Savannah insisted that one was hers.

The unofficial Sunday rule in our house... whoever wakes up first and gets the kids dressed pretty much gets to chose which team they will root for that day.  I thought Eric was being sweet when he let me sleep in... turns out he had an ulterior motive.

Elvis was NOT a healthy eater.  We have been slowly cooking our way through this little cookbook that Eric brought back for Savannah from Nashville.  Every recipe in here is some sort of "home cooking" type of meal.  Savannah is loving it... I am pretty sure that Eric and I have packed on some LBs thanks to these recipes.

Eric was home this week, so I took advantage of having someone home to watch Ryder and headed up to Savannah's school to have lunch with her.  She was beyond excited.  Seriously.  I wish I could do this more often.  I know that these days will not be around forever.  Soon she will be "too cool" to eat lunch with mom.  I better take advantage of it while she still thinks it is the BEST THING EVER.

Savannah has been kicking some sight word butt.  I have been pretty impressed with how well she is doing with her words.  She is now able to recognize and read a lot of the words in the books we read together at night.

He had a rough week, for no particular reason at all.  Fussy, fussy, fussy.

The ipad cheers him up though.  He is addicted.

Running into the grocery store the other day she insisted that I take her picture with what she called a mini pumpkin patch.  So ready for cooler weather and pumpkins everywhere.