Day-to-Day...and Then Some...

Wow! Have we ever been busy! Between M & M going to school, Alan going to work, and Jenna and Deb driving for 3-4 hours a day, dropping everyone off, picking them up, and running errands in between, it's a wonder that this blog ever gets written!

As far as school goes, Mason seems to really enjoy kindergarten. She struggles a bit to get ready in the morning, but she's always in a good mood when we pick her up from school. She always shares a little about her day, which she never used to do, and she's thrilled to come home and do homework! If only we knew that excitement could last forever! Ha ha.

Mackenzie is adapting to school. She rarely ever cries when we drop her off anymore. She does mope sometimes, though. But, she's eating lunch at school now, instead of after school, in the car, which she did for the entire first month. She's participating in activities too. She apparently really likes sticking things that have glue on them to paper. The latest was making paper jack-o-lanterns. She stuck the eyes, nose, and mouth on them. She had so much fun, she made three, although the faces were a bit crooked, they were generally in the appropriate locations.

Jenna is turning into a little terror. She is mischievous, she is not interested in words like "no" and "stop." We try to change her attention to activities more appropriate, when necessary, but some days, it seems there's little we can do, without being completely terrorized or made crazy by her actions. She's also so cute that it's tough to get angry, but easy to be frustrated.

Just over a week ago, we took the girls to a pumpkin patch out in the desert mountains, about an hour from home. There were pumpkins still on the vine, and plenty of them. We had a great time walking all around looking for good carving pumpkins. Mason picked out two of the three. But ultimately, we decided to go for one, really big kahoona. It is classy, too, with whitish stripes where the natural grooves would be. It weighed in at 39 pounds. We still aren’t sure how we will carve it, but that is yet to come. We’ll be sure to take pictures.

So, other than that, we have one last thing to share on our blog this time around. It’s a poem that Alan and I composed, with a little bit of help from a special friend. We hope you enjoy the read as much as we enjoyed wordsmithing it to perfection. It’s very rare that we compose anything, let alone poems. :-) You can read it to the right of this blog. Enjoy!